FALL 2014 – SJSU Students & Collaborative Group Projects

August 18, 2014.Reading time less than 1 minute.

In our AMS/ENVS/HUM 159 Nature & World Cultures class, students complete a group project together with a Native Californian tribe, resulting in a micro-documentary, a published article, or a Wikipedia entry. You can view some of the micro-docs on my DrPfeiffer YouTube channel. We also just co-authored an article about this in the international journal […]

SUMMER 2014 – Protecting the Clear Lake Hitch

August 10, 2014.Reading time less than 1 minute.

On August 6th, 2014 the California Fish & Game Commission vote unanimously to designate the Clear Lake Hitch (Lavinia exilicauda chi), an endemic minnow of cultural and ecological significance, as a threatened species in California. Conservationists from the Center for Biological Diversity filed the initial petition. Volunteers with the Chi Council for the Clear Lake […]