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Map of Hurricane pathways in the Atlantic
Dr. Hernandez Ayala quoted (again) in Washington Post
Women in Sustainability Panel
Women in Sustainability Panel

Sonoma State hosted a Women in Sustainability Panel acknowledging and learning about women in the environmental industry. GEP faculty, Dr. Laura Watt and Dr. Sharon Fuller were on the panel sharing details about their career paths. GEP faculty, Wendy St.

Student Researcher Nicholas
Analyzing fossil fish teeth
Student analyzing tree ring data
Reconstructing Fire Histories using Tree Ring Analysis
People on the street riding various personal mobility devices
Fang: Rules of the Road for Personal Transportation Devices

In recent years, “Personal Transportation Devices” (PTDs) have exploded onto streets and sidewalks. These small devices transport individual persons at slow speeds and are either human-powered or motorized.

Hurricane Maria
Professor Hernández Ayala's recently published paper makes an impression in global media

Professor Hernández Ayala's paper Extreme Rainfall Associated With Hurricane Maria Over Puerto Rico and Its Connections to Climate Variability and Change has recently been cited in the media.

Students standing in front of a presentation board
Using iPad Lidar to measure tree structure
Student working with furnace in lab
Analyzing carbon sequestration
Microgrid Schematic
Soto: Modeling fuel consumption in microgrids

Supplying electricity to populations without full access requires cost-effective, distributed sources of

Varves
Goman: Recording 5,000 years of environmental change in Oaxaca. Mexico

Despite several decades of research focusing on prehispanic human ecology, debate continues over the impact of climatic and anthropogenic landscape change on human populations in Mesoamerica.

Maize Pollen
Goman et al. 1998. Recreating Climate and Agricultural Landscape Histories Using Pollen and Charcoal

We present pollen and microscopic charcoal evidence from securely dated lake sediments, located in the Tuxtlas region of Veracruz, Mexico. Two periods of agricultural activity are recognized.