With over a decade of experience in empowering students to learn about and steward their local watersheds, the goal of SSI’s Education Program is to provide robust educational experiences to the students of Nevada County. This month we highlight one of our field experiences called Environmental Science Investigations. The Environmental […]
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Sierra Streams Institute created the Our Forests project to answer the question: “what would it mean for students to be able to engage with local environmental issues through real-world scientific investigation?” Benefits of Place-Based Community Science Funded through the National Science Foundation, Our Forests has been a collaborative project between […]
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This winter has certainly been one for the memory books, but what about the record books? With all of the rain we’ve received over the last few weeks, multiple questions have been coming up. Just how big is this storm compared to prior wet years? Is this a “drought buster”? What […]
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This past school year, Sierra Streams Institute had the joy of venturing into our local forests with over 300 3rd-5th grade students in Nevada County. The mission? Promote students’ environmental science agency, spark curiosity and increase interest in land stewardship through placed-based investigations into forest health. The program, Our Forests, […]
Read More >Life of the Bottom-Feeders in the Shallows and Deeps of Streams Are you interested in learning more about the insects who inhabit our waterways? Join Sierra Streams Institute with guest speaker Dave Herbst on Tuesday March 1st at 6 PM for our latest Virtual Science Speaker Talk. Dave has been […]
Read More >Youth-focused Community and Citizen Science in Nevada County What makes a forest healthy? Are our local forests healthy? Those are the questions that 3rd-5th graders from around the area are attempting to answer with the help of Sierra Stream’s Institute’s education team. Students will be working throughout the year to […]
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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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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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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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We’re so excited to be participating in this event again this year! Make sure you get your tickets for the run or just join us at the festival for a beautiful day on the Woolman campus.
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Meet Mary Grim! I grew up in West Virginia with a dad that took me fishing a lot. As a kid, I was fascinated with fish and loved playing in streams, looking under rocks and catching crayfish. I went to school at West Virginia University where I studied biology and […]
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AmeriCorps Week 2019 (March 10-16, 2019) 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. During this year’s AmeriCorps […]
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Each summer, Sierra Streams hosts about four interns for the summer field season. Interns can expect to monitor wildlife, monitor water quality, collect benthic macro invertebrates (BMI), collect algae samples, process samples and more! Days are spent crawling in the most beautiful streams in Nevada County collecting data that informs […]
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Want to learn more about your local watersheds? Which one do you live in? Where does your water come from? Where does it go? Who do you share it with? How can you contribute to your watershed’s health?
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Tuesday, April 17th, Science Speakers Series Ryan Bart, Postdoctoral Researcher at UC Merced, “Water Supply and the Sierra Nevada: Why Vegetation Matters!” 6:00–6:30 pm Refreshments 6:30-7:30 pm Presentation Sierra College Multipurpose Center N12 250 Sierra College Dr., Grass Valley Wednesday, April 18th, Scotch Broom Pull Scotch Broom Pull April 18th 9 AM – […]
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Allie and Emily served their first day as AmeriCorps members at Sierra Streams Institute on September 23rd! They are excited to get to know our amazing network of supporters and volunteers so, they figured they would start with a brief introduction: Allison Hacker has a well rounded background in biology, […]
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On February 21, Kelly Santos, an Education Program Director at the Sierra Streams Institute, presented the first of this spring’s Sierra Science Speakers Series presentations. This is a free science seminar series put on by the Sierra Streams Institute and Sierra College Nevada County Campus that focuses on local and regional environmental […]
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AmeriCorps is a national program that places thousands of young adults each year into intensive service positions where they learn valuable work skills, earn money for education, and develop an appreciation for citizenship. Since the program’s founding in 1994, more than 1 million AmeriCorps members have contributed more than 1.4 billion hours in service […]
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