Are you interested in engaging the local community in water quality monitoring and vegetation management? Are you excited by an opportunity to work in the field to eradicate invasive species or help collect water quality data from our local streams? Sierra Streams Institute is excited to announce we are hiring […]
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Sierra Streams Institute is excited to announce we are working and collaborating with Bear Yuba Land Trust on their Garden Bar Preserve Wetland Restoration and Riparian Enhancement Project which was awarded funding from the Wildlife Conservation Board. The Garden Bar Preserve is a 652-acre working cattle ranch that connect of […]
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Sierra Streams Institute (SSI) is excited to announce we have begun work, in partnership with the Yuba Watershed Institute (YWI), on the Little Deer Creek Landscape Resilience Project. This Sierra Nevada Conservancy-funded project is located on 260 acres of public and private land in the Little Deer Creek watershed about […]
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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. One major factor is water. Water is one of the most critical elements to all […]
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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 share social media content, dive into our climate change study, and so much more! We’ll let Alex […]
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 burning down last month, Wes and Dorothy have truly had a unique AmeriCorps experience. But even with all of that disruption […]
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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 completely burned. Beneath the twisted metal of what was our roof, we were able […]
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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 Symposium. Using R, a programming language, they overlaid SSI’s twenty years of monthly water quality measurements along Deer Creek with […]
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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 outbreak in March our monitoring program has looked substantially different than normal because we cannot rely on the […]
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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 essential field work for vegetation management and water quality monitoring, it’s not the same without […]
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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 lab to restoration. Robin first began volunteering with SSI’s macroinvertebrate lab, and you can still find her there almost every […]
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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 have pledged to “Get Things Done” since the program’s inception in 1994. SSI has hosted AmeriCorps since 2007 through Sierra […]
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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 and serendipity. A long-time admirer of SSI’s work, I’m lucky enough to be stepping into the place of […]
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We know that many of you may already be familiar with the concept of citizen science. However, as we move into a new year, here at Sierra Streams we wanted to take a moment to appreciate the benefits of citizen science and reiterate why it is so central to our […]
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Amidst a growing risk of wildfires in our area, many community members and land managers have recently focused on the need for fuels reduction projects to compensate for over one hundred years of fire suppression policies in California. But what does fuels reduction actually look like in practice? Had you […]
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Last Saturday was the final day of the fire workshop “Managing our Fire-shed”, hosted by Sierra Streams Institute in partnership with University of California Agricultural and Natural Resources (UCANR). The workshop was funded by an EPA Environmental Education grant for community fire education. Participants in the course gained valuable background […]
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After a year of working as the Water Quality Lab Manager, Grayson Carlile has decided to transition to farming full time at Starbright Acres Family Farm in Grass Valley. We will miss Grayson at Sierra Streams, but are glad he is pursuing his love of farming in the area! From […]
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Each spring and fall, Sierra Streams in partnership with Sierra College puts on the Science Speaker Series the second Tuesday of each month. The talks focus science happening in the Sierra Foothills and Sierra Nevada range. Drought, Tree Mortality, and Wildfire in Sierra Nevada forests: Using Lessons from the Past […]
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Meet Hailey Wilson! Hailey Wilson is an enthusiastic ten-year old with a deep passion for laughter and learning. I thought it was so important to highlight Hailey in this series because she’s downright inspiring. She’s full of silliness, energy and a love of the natural world that is contagious. We […]
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Meet Annika Alexander-Ozinskas, Co-Director of Education Annika is a warm source of light in our office and we feel so lucky that she has landed with us. She is a dedicated hard worker after all of the sweet things in life. She’s an igniter of laughter, a brain of brilliant […]
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