SSU Preserves Collaborates on Soundscape Project

June 2013

SSU students recorded and archived soundscapes of the SSU Preserves that will serve as the soundtrack for interpretive dance performances. This cross-disciplinary project engages ENSP, engineering science, and dance students to increase awareness of changing natural soundscapes. Join us at the Green Music Center on December 6 (12-1pm) for a free matinee performance. Tickets are free but required. Contact the SSU Theatre Arts Box Office at 707-664-4246. The project is funded by the GMC/Academic Integration Program and Sonoma County Community Foundation. For more information: Soundscape Project page.

Erosion Control Project Begins at Galbreath Wildlands Preserve

July 2013

Road work began in July at the Galbreath Wildlands Preserve. The Preserves are collaborating with the Mendocino Resource Conservation District to reduce erosion and undertake riparian restoration to improve salmon and steelhead habitat. Over the next two years, $700,000 in EPA 319(h) funding will be spent redesigning road surfaces and replacing bridges.

Preserves Director on SSU Spotlight

December 2012

On the SSU Spotlight series, Dr. Claudia Luke talks about her career at field stations in California and the developing WATERS Collaborative, an academic-management collaboration between SSU and the Sonoma County Water Agency.

SSU Preserves at Make a Splash

November 7, 2012

Sonoma State University celebrated a year of water with a special reception entitled "Make a Splash." The reception in SSU's Person Theatre highlighted SSU's campus-wide "Water Works" initiatve, a series of performances, lectures and events surrounding our relationship with this unique substance.

Preserves Director Claudia Luke, provided a special presentation on the importance of water in our lives and ongoing work of the Preserves' WATERS Collaborative. Other speakers included SSU Provost Andrew Rogerson and SSU Art Professor Kurt Kemp.

Following the reception, Department of Theatre Arts & Dance presented "The Great Divide," a play about hydraulic fracturing (fracking).

See the Water Works website for more information.

Preserves on Comcast Newsmakers

October 2012

WATERS Coordinator Claudia Luke talks to Comcast Newsmakers about the SSU Preserves, the WATERS Collaborative, and other water events on campus.

Water Works

Fall 2012-Spring 2013 on Campus at Sonoma State University

WATERS Collaborative projects are part of a year-long celebration of water at Sonoma State University, called Water Works. Water Works explores inland water flow as a resource, theme, and metaphor, through a year (2012-2013) of academics, fine arts, and live theatre and dance. A schedule of events is available at the link above.

To get involved or learn more contact Paul Draper or Scott Horstein at the Department of Theatre Arts & Dance.

Not Just Another Desk Job

Sonoma News Center - July 24, 2012

The Sonoma County Youth Ecology Corps project at SSU was hosted by the SSU Preserves, SSU Facilities and Sonoma County Adult and Youth Development on Copeland Creek. Seven members of the Sonoma County Youth Ecology Corps worked diligently over the summer to clear the Himalayan blackberry that is choking out native species along Copeland Creek on campus and at the Fairfield Osborn Preserve. read more...