Student Profile Center for Community and Citizen Science
Graduate Student
Sarah is a masters student in the Community Development graduate program. Her research interest is in connecting scientific research with the public through education for enhancing conservation management.
Sarah is an award-winning environmental educator with almost a decade teaching and developing science programs to students of all ages in Northern California. Her background includesmanaging community-engaged projects, creating place-based, research-backedcurricula, and communications development. SarahholdsCalifornia Naturalist and Environmental Educator certifications. She graduated from UC Santa Cruz witha B.A. in Environmental Studies.
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Project Update: Caring for Clear Lake project closing reflections
Looking back at the last two years
With the Caring for Clear Lake project coming to an end this July, the UC Davis team reflects on collaborating with Tribesand thecommunity in co-developing environmental education materials that integrate local participatory science projects. We sharehow the community engagementprocess evolved andguidedthe frameworks used for structuring the materials.
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City Nature Challenge 2024 Recap
Another City Nature Challenge is in the books! We love to see the iNaturalist participation across the Sacramento Region and share in the excitement of discovery. This year’s official results are:
7,218 observations
1,602 species
686 observers
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Project Update: Training Presents Drafted Environmental Education to Support Clear Lake Stewardship
Inspiration and next steps
In March, the UC Davis Center for Community and Citizen Science and Center for Regional Changefacilitated a two-day training in Lakeport witheducators and partners from across theregion as part of theCaring for Clear Lakeproject. The training is a milestone for the two-year project,approved by Blue Ribbon Committee for the Rehabilitation of Clear Lake and funded by the California Natural Resources Agency.
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Project Update: Connecting Classroom Content in Spinning Salmon Field Trips
“Bye, Spaghetti!” waved one high schooler as a tiny Chinkook salmon, so named Spaghetti, swam out of a plastic cup and into the murky Sacramento River. Acrossthe boat ramp at Riverbend Park in Oroville, students saidtheir farewells to the alevin in their own cups. This was the last chance for students to get an up close of the fish they spent raising in their classroom over the last 6 weeks.
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FREE Training: Environmental Education for Clear Lake educators
Saturday, March 30, 2024
Saturday, March 30, 2024
8:30 AM – 4:00 PM
Lake County Office of Education (Kesey Room), 1152 S Main St, Lakeport
Register here
OPTIONAL March 29, 2024 (field day)
10:00 AM – 2:00 PM
Rodman Preserve
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Calling all Clear Lake educators: Feedback needed on draft materials
Are youan educator working with youth in Lake County? Your skills and experienceare needed!
The UC Davis Center for Community and Citizen Science and Center for Regional Change are draftingenvironmental education materials to support ongoing local effortsto improve the health of Clear Lake and its watershed.
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Backyard biodiversity helps statewide initiatives at Biodiversity Day 2023 events
At the Center for Community and Citizen Science, we love connecting people with opportunities for authentic science engagement. Every so often, we get to participate ourselves! Saturday, September 9, staff from the Center went to Effie Yeaw Nature Center at Ancil Hoffman County Park in Carmichael. We met colleagues from the California Academy of Sciences who were hosting a bioblitz alongside the California Department of Fish and Wildlife and the California Natural Resources Agency.
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Project Update: Clear Lake Reflections
Singing, dancing, eating, swimming, paddling, greeting: summer is an amazing time to be out at Clear Lake!
July marks the halfway point of the Blue Ribbon Committee for the Rehabilitation of Clear Lake(BRC)-fundedproject in Clear Lake. What better way to celebrate this milestone than to join the community duringRobinson Rancheria’s Shigom Nature Day, Big Valley Band of Pomo Indians’ Tule Boat Festival, and Scotts Valley Band of Pomo Indians’ Big Time.
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Project Update: Net-Working with the Clear Lake Hitch
What’s the best way to get to know Clear Lake? A boat ride, of course!
Not just any boat ride. We recentlyjoined California Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW) as staff conducted thelast electrofishing survey of the season. These surveys are one of many community-wide efforts to monitor Clear Lake hitch populations, which is a culturally important species toTribes and endemic to Clear Lake.
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Project Update: Field Trips Wrap Up Another Successful Year of GEAR UP Partnership
Starting a collaborative community and citizen science project with high schools is no small feat. Try starting it during the pandemic. That’s what we did with the Center’s collaboration with GEAR UP STEM Rural Valley PartnershipSpinning Salmon in the Classroom project. After managing a yearof distance learning in 2021 and piloting in-person content in 2022, we had so much we were excited to dothis year.
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Kicking off the 2023 City Nature Challenge Sacramento
Eighth annual challenge grows to over 450 participating cities on six continents; results announced on May 8
The Center for Community and Citizen Scienceis excited to once again host the City Nature Challenge for theSacramento Region. As community and citizen scienceinitiatives build momentum around the world, this year’s eighth annual City Nature Challenge includes more than 450 cities across six continents. Kicking off April 28 at 12:01 am in each time zone, the Challenge runs through May 1, 11:59 pm.
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Warming up for the City Nature Challenge 2023 with UC Davis Wildlife Society Bioblitz
Just shy of 20 intrepid UC Davis students braved the cold for a morning Bioblitz at the UC Davis Arboretumin February. The purpose of thisevent was to introduceiNaturalist, practice making observations, and explore the nature in the Arboretum together. It wasorganizedfor The Wildlife Society club at UC Davis, with Laci Gerhartand Sarah Angulo facilitating.
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Project Update: Field trips connect to classroom learning
Spinning Salmon in the Classroom Project
It’s a cold February morning at River Bend Park in Oroville. We’re standing with UC Davis Center for Watershed Sciences’ Carson Jeffres, waiting patiently for the bus to arrive from Red Bluff High School. A truck towing a boat backs down the boat ramp where we’re waiting to meet the high school studentsthat have participated in the Spinning Salmon in the Classroom project this winter.
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Project Update: Inspirations after a visit to Lake County
Since July 2022, the Center for Community and Citizen Science has been steadily working on a project in collaboration with the UC Davis Center for Regional Change to build capacity for environmental education (EE) and community and citizen science (CCS) in the Clear Lake region.
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