Sarah Angulo
Community Education and Outreach Specialist, Center for Community and Citizen Science
Sarah is an environmental educator with almost a decade teaching and developing science programs to students of all ages in Northern California. Her background includes managing community-engaged projects, creating place-based, research-backed curricula, and communications development. Sarah’s dedication was recognized with a 2021 Environmental Educator of the Year award. She holds a California Naturalist and environmental educator certifications. She has a Bachelor of Arts in Environmental Studies from UC Santa Cruz. Sarah has volunteered with the Sierra Club Outings leading backpacking trips since 2012.
Sarah helps manage community-engaged projects that support community and citizen science capacity-building and program development, plus the Center’s communications.
Project Update: Caring for Clear Lake project closing reflections
Looking back at the last two years
With the Caring for Clear Lake
project coming to an end this July, the UC Davis team reflects on
collaborating with Tribes and the community in
co-developing environmental education materials that integrate
local participatory science projects. We share how the
community engagement process evolved
and guided the frameworks used for structuring the
materials.
City Nature Challenge 2024 Recap
Another
City Nature Challenge is in the books! We love to see the
iNaturalist participation across the Sacramento Region and share
in the excitement of discovery. This year’s official results are:
7,218 observations
1,602 species
686 observers
Project Update: Training Presents Drafted Environmental Education to Support Clear Lake Stewardship
Inspiration and next steps
In March, the UC Davis Center for
Community and Citizen Science and Center for Regional
Change facilitated a two-day training in Lakeport
with educators and partners from across the region as
part of the Caring for
Clear Lake project. The training is a milestone for the
two-year project, approved by Blue Ribbon Committee for the
Rehabilitation of Clear Lake and funded by the California Natural
Resources Agency.
Project Update: Connecting Classroom Content in Spinning Salmon Field Trips
“Bye, Spaghetti!” waved one high
schooler as a tiny Chinkook salmon, so named Spaghetti, swam out
of a plastic cup and into the murky Sacramento River.
Across the boat ramp at Riverbend Park in Oroville, students
said their farewells to the alevin in their own cups. This
was the last chance for students to get an up close of the fish
they spent raising in their classroom over the last 6 weeks.
FREE Training: Environmental Education for Clear Lake educators
Saturday, March 30, 2024
Saturday, March 30, 2024
8:30 AM – 4:00 PM
Lake County Office of Education (Kesey Room), 1152 S Main St,
Lakeport
Register here
OPTIONAL March 29, 2024 (field day)
10:00 AM – 2:00 PM
Rodman Preserve
Calling all Clear Lake educators: Feedback needed on draft materials
Are you an educator working with youth in Lake County? Your skills and experience are needed!
The UC Davis Center for Community and Citizen Science and Center for Regional Change are drafting environmental education materials to support ongoing local efforts to improve the health of Clear Lake and its watershed.
Backyard biodiversity helps statewide initiatives at Biodiversity Day 2023 events
At the Center for Community and
Citizen Science, we love connecting people with opportunities for
authentic science engagement. Every so often, we get to
participate ourselves! Saturday, September 9, staff from the
Center went to Effie Yeaw Nature Center at Ancil Hoffman County
Park in Carmichael. We met colleagues from the California Academy
of Sciences who were hosting a bioblitz alongside the California
Department of Fish and Wildlife and the California Natural
Resources Agency.
Project Update: Clear Lake Reflections
Singing, dancing, eating, swimming,
paddling, greeting: summer is an amazing time to be out at Clear
Lake!
July marks the halfway point of the Blue Ribbon Committee for the Rehabilitation of Clear Lake (BRC)-funded project in Clear Lake. What better way to celebrate this milestone than to join the community during Robinson Rancheria’s Shigom Nature Day, Big Valley Band of Pomo Indians’ Tule Boat Festival, and Scotts Valley Band of Pomo Indians’ Big Time.
Project Update: Net-Working with the Clear Lake Hitch
What’s the best way to get to know
Clear Lake? A boat ride, of course!
Not just any boat ride. We recently joined California Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW) as staff conducted the last electrofishing survey of the season. These surveys are one of many community-wide efforts to monitor Clear Lake hitch populations, which is a culturally important species to Tribes and endemic to Clear Lake.
Project Update: Field Trips Wrap Up Another Successful Year of GEAR UP Partnership
Starting a collaborative community and citizen science project with high schools is no small feat. Try starting it during the pandemic. That’s what we did with the Center’s collaboration with GEAR UP STEM Rural Valley Partnership Spinning Salmon in the Classroom project. After managing a year of distance learning in 2021 and piloting in-person content in 2022, we had so much we were excited to do this year.
Kicking off the 2023 City Nature Challenge Sacramento
Eighth annual challenge grows to over 450 participating cities on six continents; results announced on May 8
The Center for Community and Citizen Science is excited to once again host the City Nature Challenge for the Sacramento Region. As community and citizen science initiatives build momentum around the world, this year’s eighth annual City Nature Challenge includes more than 450 cities across six continents. Kicking off April 28 at 12:01 am in each time zone, the Challenge runs through May 1, 11:59 pm.
Warming up for the City Nature Challenge 2023 with UC Davis Wildlife Society Bioblitz
Just shy of 20 intrepid UC Davis students braved the cold for a morning Bioblitz at the UC Davis Arboretum in February. The purpose of this event was to introduce iNaturalist, practice making observations, and explore the nature in the Arboretum together. It was organized for The Wildlife Society club at UC Davis, with Laci Gerhart and Sarah Angulo facilitating.
Project Update: Field trips connect to classroom learning
Spinning Salmon in the Classroom Project
It’s a cold February morning at River Bend Park in Oroville. We’re standing with UC Davis Center for Watershed Sciences’ Carson Jeffres, waiting patiently for the bus to arrive from Red Bluff High School. A truck towing a boat backs down the boat ramp where we’re waiting to meet the high school students that have participated in the Spinning Salmon in the Classroom project this winter.
Project Update: Inspirations after a visit to Lake County
Since July 2022, the Center for Community and Citizen Science has been steadily working on a project in collaboration with the UC Davis Center for Regional Change to build capacity for environmental education (EE) and community and citizen science (CCS) in the Clear Lake region.
