The Cotati Creek Critters is a watershed group conducting a habitat restoration project along the Laguna de Santa Rosa in Cotati. In June 2005 the group was awarded an Urban Stream Restoration grant from the California Department of Water Resources to . . .

Allensworth, California stands as an example of a larger social and economic movement to build African American town-sites, a movement that took place across the United States following the Civil War. Racial discrimination enabled the existence of the . . .

Twenty years ago, the Patterson City School Districts (PCSD) implemented a series of restructuring reforms that radically altered power relationships within the district. These reforms, known as Trust Agreements, shifted decision making authority away . . .

Purpose of the Study: Research shows that active participation of both students and their parents in children’s schooling is a key factor for academic success. However, participation of immigrant parents tends to be low. Some of the reasons for this a . . .

Purpose of the Project: The purpose of this project is to investigate whether music can be an effective means by which to present content in other subject areas; to ascertain current practice with regard to use of educational music in the elementary c . . .

The natural environment of Sonoma County has been significantly altered in recent decades, coincident with rapid human population growth and major shifts in the economy. Of the ways in which we've changed our environment, which are the most definite? . . .

Minimalist running shoes like Vibram Five Fingers have flooded the market and shoe companies claim that they may improve biomechanical efficiency and metabolic economy when compared with conventional running shoes. PURPOSE: To test claims made by Vibr . . .

Purpose of Study: The project will be a case study that critically examines the process of the development and implementation of the new Earth Science/CP curriculum, working with and supporting the teachers to ensure their success in this process, and . . .

While the number of women participating in sports has increased since Title IX, the number of women coaching women's sports has decreased. Before Title IX was implemented, the percentage of women coaching Division I sports was 90%, today that number i . . .

Constructed wetlands have been emerging over the last 30 years as a good way to treat bodies of water with undesirable levels of pollutants in general, and of polishing municipal wastewater effluent (MWE) in particular. In this study, the nitrate remo . . .

Purpose of the Study: The history of the Pacific Northwest has favored large, extractive and national industries such as the fur trade, mining, lumbering, fishing and farming over smaller pioneer enterprises. This multi-disciplinary study attempts to . . .

This project aims to highlight John Clare’s resistance to ubiquitous systems of knowledge that limit the way we may know something. Clare’s work highlights how scientific, aesthetic, and poetic representations of nature can change our experience with . . .

Purpose The purpose of this study is to compare current methods of planning resource conservation projects on private land with conclusions drawn from field work and to identify changes that could improve the planning process. Problem Statement Califo . . .

Little is known about Western Grebe (Aechmophorus occidentalis) movement patterns, including breeding philopatry, winter site fidelity, migratory connectivity, and within-season movement. Such patterns are important to understanding grebe biology and . . .

Purpose of the Study: The following discussion concentrates on the principal relationships found within the learning environment of American policing, and addresses instructional practices, curricula, and educational philosophies as they relate to lea . . .

Purpose of the Study: The intent of this thesis is to demonstrate that industrial landscapes and other “invisible,” or historically undervalued, landscapes have interpretive potential. The overall goals in this study are to contribute to the academic . . .

The western pond turtle (WPT), Emys marmorata, is listed by the CA Department of Fish and Game as a Species of Special Concern in California and yet still little is known about much of its basic reproductive and developmental biology. It has been well . . .

This thesis research focuses on a curated CRM collection of Late Period Chumash chert microdrills from CA-SLO-214. The main goal of this research is to compare the Chumash drill-making industry in Los Osos to the known industry on the Channel Islands. . . .

Purpose of Study: To document the struggle that Mexican workers from Calliope Designs and Point St. George Fisheries launched in 1988, to obtain union representation. Procedure: Oral interviews were conducted with workers of both plants, union organiz . . .

Purpose of the Study: Good Work: When Excellence and Ethics Meet, a research study co-sponsored by Harvard University's Project Zero, focused on ways to promote "good work-work of expert quality that benefits the broader society." The purpose of this . . .

Purpose of Study: In an effort to preserve data for future research, artifact collections are diligently excavated and curated. The purpose of this project was to test the hypothesis that curated artifact collections hold invaluable research potential . . .

Purpose of the Study: The purpose of this paper is to document stormwater management practices, noting the challenges, successes, and lessons learned on this 400+ acre agricultural site that could be relevant for similar sub-watershed sites. It should . . .

Purpose: This thesis documents archaeological investigations within the Bureau of Land Management South Cow Mountain Off-highway Vehicle Recreation Area (SCMRA), Lake and Mendocino counties, California. The primary purposes are: (1) conduct an intensi . . .

Purpose of the Study: Critical literacy provides a valuable pedagogy for school reform, but implementation falters due to the variety of definitions and methodological options available for implementation. Frameworks for implementation have been provi . . .

Purpose of the Study: The degradation of watersheds and the lack of adequate water supplies is a growing phenomenon in the 21st century. When countries share a common water resource there are natural interdependencies that exist between those countrie . . .

A football team consists of several different positions that make up offensive, defensive and special team units. Of these football positions, the offensive line is considered by many coaches to be one of the most difficult positions to physically dev . . .

William Gwynn's entrepreneurial character was the impetus behind the 1850's inception of the lime industry in Oroville, Butte County, along the West Branch of the Feather River. Gwynn recognized the need for collateral industries to gold mining, and t . . .

The coastal watersheds of southern California support a single species of salmonid known as steelhead trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss). 0. mykiss popular ions have been impacted by a variety of factors known to cause declines in abundance, including the da . . .

The late economist, Susan Strange, noted that the two greatest threats we are facing are global financial instability and the global environmental crisis. My project reviewed recent efforts to advance environmental sustainability through the arena of . . .

Purpose of the Study: High levels of stress are inherent in the occupation of nursing, and in the activities of being a student. The purpose of this project is to determine whether a stress management program employing educational biofeedback training . . .

Purpose of the Study: Because of a feeling of stigma in old age and the occurrence of many losses in health, independence, societal roles, and the dying of family and friends, very old people are vulnerable to loss of self-esteem. The purpose of this . . .

This body of work demonstrates how machine learning can be applied to optimize the search for a solution in the problem space of game play commonly known as Peg Solitaire. The problem space of 64 possible peg positions is considered independently in 8 . . .

Winona Bombing Target #2 (WBT#2) is a target training area located in Ocotillo Wells State Vehicular Recreation Area in Imperial County, California. From 1944 to 1945, WBT#2 was accessed by the Navy to train Eleventh Naval District fighter pilots in h . . .

Purpose of the Study: I propose that equine-facilitated psychotherapy (EFP) can provide support for the emotional needs of adolescent students with learning disabilities and that it has the potential to be funded by a granting organization. This proje . . .

Purpose of the Study: The purpose of this study is to analyze the content of comic books, specifically Captain America comic books from 1938-1970, in conjunction with the secondary research done by various youth and youth culture historians. Laying th . . .

Purpose of the Study: Biofuels are a category of alternative fuels derived from organic matter. Biodiesel, a lipid oil-based biofuel, is produced from oilseed crops. Biodiesel and ethanol use different feedstock. Ethanol, a grain alcohol, is produced . . .

Purpose of the Investigative Project: In accordance with the Collection’s Management Policy of the Sonoma County Museum, will be (1) to assist the Museum in interpreting a thematically based multimedia presentation of a portion of their collection; (2 . . .

Purpose of the Study: Previous analyses of prehistoric burial sites in California have focused on the change from the band to the tribal level of society, while comparatively little research has focused on later, increasingly complex sites. In additio . . .

The purpose of this study is to identify and understand a fast-growing population of students, referred to as Generation 1.5 students, and to provide information that will lead to them being better served in school. These students have gone through mo . . .

Purpose or the Study: A detailed culture history is the necessary first step towards understanding the processes responsible for the development of prehistoric cultural systems. In Central California, three broad cultural patterns have been defined ba . . .

Purpose of the Study: Because the United States is a nation that extensively participates in international student exchange and hence is part of a global society, American educational institutions have a fundamental responsibility to provide professio . . .

Purpose of Study: The purpose of this study is to derive new insight into the Civil War and African Americans' participation in the conflict. I sought to accomplish this through assessing the progression and impact of the enlistment of freedmen for th . . .

Purpose of the Study: The document on which this thesis is based was created under the terms of a cooperative agreement between the National Park Service (NPS) and Sonoma State University (SSU) to create a cultural resource appendix to the Fire Manage . . .

Purpose of Study: Within the last several decades, archaeological research on gendered identities of the past has become more commonplace. However, much of this research focuses on the gendered experiences of white middle-class women, many located alo . . .

Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons (P AH) are ubiquitous environmental contaminants released from different sources such as forest fires and ocean oil seeps, as well as land based runoff and creosote. These sources of P AHs are both natural and anthropo . . .

Degraded landscapes described as those that cannot recover their "predisturbance state or .... historic developmental trajectory" by the Society for Ecological Restoration are prevalent throughout the globe due to human disturbance. A negative contrib . . .

Purpose of the Study: Hoping to gain a better life for their families, Chinese men immigrated to California at the start of the Gold Rush in the mid-19th century. Despite prejudice and anti-Chinese legislation, the Chinese of California were a major f . . .

Purpose of the Study: The purpose of this study is to find ways to best utilize a staff development model known as peer-coaching to help teachers focus on mathematical reasoning as a basis for their collaborative conversation. This study is based on t . . .

Purpose of the Study: It is important to determine to what extent the current Kindergarten curriculum is meeting the sociocultural needs of students to function successfully within an academic environment to determine if early rigorous academics cause . . .

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to conduct an analysis of blue oak reproduction and to specifically analyze the impacts of wild pig rooting disturbance on blue oak seedling germination, establishment, survival and size/growth. Blue oak (Quercus . . .

Many polygynous, capital breeders exhibit sexual dimorphism with respect to body size and composition. This dimorphism is often facilitated by sex differences in foraging behavior, growth rates and patterns of nutrient deposition during development. I . . .

Purpose of Study: The intent of this research project is to gain a clear understanding, from the students' point of view, of what aspects of the continuation high school program contribute to the success of students who were unsuccessful at a traditio . . .

Purpose of the Study: When children read from a critical stance it refers to reading and analyzing text for the author's message, the intended audience, and any potential biases. The purpose of the study is to examine students' literary responses when . . .

Purpose: This thesis synthesizes extant information relating to the prehistory of the upper Cache Creek watershed that helps to contextualize prehistoric cultural resources in the Bureau of Land Management Indian Valley/ Walker Ridge Recreation Area ( . . .

Purpose of the Study: The purpose of this study is to generate a context for describing the use and reuse of a trail through the Mayacamas Mountains, historically described as the “Trail between Hopland and Lakeport," and also having its origins as an . . .

Purpose of the study: Psychological alchemy, as developed by Carl Jung, has been used in the study of psychological individuation. However, the tenets of alchemy have thus far been limited to symbolic representations of the dynamics of the psyche and . . .

Purpose of the Study: The purpose of this study was to determine the degree to which specific components of a PLC model were implemented in two schools by each school's leadership team as a result of participating in the Leadership Network. The projec . . .

Purpose of the Study: The number of students with disabilities participating in postsecondary education has steadily increased over the past decade. At some high schools, students with disabilities receive transition interventions beyond the college a . . .

Purpose of the Study: This qualitative case study aims to provide insight into efforts to implement critical media literacy with elementary-aged populations in an after-school setting. Currently, The Center for Media Literacy's MediaLit Kit provides t . . .

Native Americans have established many places which they consider sacred. Sacred sites vary in form, ranging from settlements where Native Americans lived to specific places of religious significance. Sacred sites are invaluable to Native Americans be . . .

Purpose of Study: The purpose of this study is to use art therapy and sandplay therapy to determine the developmental challenges that are unique or particularly difficult for children who are twins. In my previous work with a set of twins, I became in . . .

Purpose of the Project This Master's project involved conceptualizing and writing a grant proposal for a model "Neighborhood Sustainability Corps" (NSC) program to be piloted in the Roseland area of Santa Rosa, California. The purpose of the NSC progr . . .

Purpose of the Study: This study explores tensions that practitioners of non-formal outdoor environmental education (EE) encounter when designing curricula in the current climate of standards-based education reform. It presents the experiences and opi . . .

Purpose of the Study: Sport Education is a curriculum model in physical education that promotes student responsibility and positive social skills. Healthy People 2010 recommend students spend at least 50% of lesson time in moderate to vigorous physica . . .

Purpose of the Study: The purpose of this study is to develop a comprehensive educational technology model based entirely on Open Source Software (OSS) and recycled computer hardware. This project looks at the rapidly growing Open Source Softwarc move . . .

Purpose of the Study: A historical critique was conducted in order to examine the history and decisions to create California's Education and the Environment initiative (EEI)'s model curriculum. The lens that was used to analyze this history was based . . .

Purpose of the Project: This survey will assist the Sonoma County Landmarks Commission in their attempts to identify historic and potential historic structures in the Penngrove area. One of the major benefits of this identification is that it will aid . . .

Recruitment and reproductive output of barnacles in rocky intertidal zones may be affected by coastal morphology and upwelling intensity. Prior research has shown that recruitment rates tend to be higher in regions of water mass retention (e.g., the l . . .

Of the numerous Chinese junks used in the shrimp fishery of San Francisco Bay between 1850 -1913, only the partial remains of two are known to exist today. Buried since 1913 in the tidal mud flats of China Camp State Park in San Rafael, California, th . . .

Purpose of the Study: This thesis examined previous archaeological investigations, ethnographies, lithic material, projectile points, other artifacts, and spatial patterns to identify themes in the data with the purpose of identifying a range of possi . . .

In the 1950's and later, Samuel Beckett was characterized by some critics as a perpetrator of the Nouveau Roman, or New Novel. This does not happen today. The purpose of this study is to decipher the reasons why this claim was made. Was Beckett truly . . .

Purpose of the Study: The goal of this thesis is to place the Rockpile petroglyphs within context. Petroglyphs form one of the most long lasting examples of past cultures. The concentration of petroglyphs and other cultural material in this relatively . . .

Until recently, historical narratives of the contemporary U.S. Women's Movement have focused primarily on urban centers such as New York or San Francisco. This scope obscures the nuances of the movement throughout the nation. In addition, the narrativ . . .

A collection of research and essays examining the mission of music educators in the context of modern U.S. culture. Written for both music educators and those in the broader music community who are interested in “art musics,” which in modern U.S. cult . . .

Barriers to travel and the workplace continue to exist and restrict persons with disabilities from accessing the resources available to average workers, despite mandatory disabled access requirements and civil rights laws. Persons with disabilities th . . .

One century after its formation, the Boy Scouts of America remains one of the largest youth organizations in the United States. It has come under fire in the last decade for its exclusionary policies regarding homosexuals. This paper seeks to illumina . . .