Public health and safety have been at the forefront of many peoples’ minds this year as we are all dealing with a worldwide pandemic. There are a myriad of components that contribute to one’s health. ...Read More

We are so excited to welcome our new AmeriCorps member, Alex Carey! Alex will be helping coordinate restoration at Deer Creek Ranch, monitor water quality on Deer Creek and Bear River, create and shar...Read More

This week was the last week of Wes and Dorothy’s AmeriCorps term. We can’t believe it’s already been 11 months since they started! Between PSPS’s, COVID-19, and our office burn...Read More

This week some of our staff were able to visit the Woolman property and see what’s left of our office building. While much of Woolman campus was spared heavy damage, the area around our building was c...Read More

Last week, Jeff, SSI’s ecologist and Wes, one of SSI’s AmeriCorps members, presented their work modeling water quality and climate change data at the California Water Boards Water Data Science Symposi...Read More

Each June, SSI collects benthic macro invertebrates (BMIs) and algae samples at each of our monitoring sites. This data helps us understand more about the health of our streams. Since the COVID-19 out...Read More

Things have changed a lot at SSI over the past several weeks, just as they have everywhere else. All in person events have been cancelled, and our staff work remotely. While we are still doing essenti...Read More

Robin and Cicely are sisters who have been volunteering for SSI since 2013. They have been involved in almost all of SSI’s volunteer opportunities–from water quality monitoring to the bug ...Read More

AmeriCorps week is a celebration of all things AmeriCorps — from the programs and organizations that make this national service initiative possible in thousands of locations to the members who h...Read More

SSI recently welcomed a new finance and operations manager, Carrie Ammerman, to our team! Here’s a little bit about Carrie in her own words: “I came to SSI through unexpected life changes ...Read More