Capabilities

Overall description of capabilities

Project Timeline: 12/29/2010-12/29/2013

Scope of Work: Sequoia Foundation was responsible for providing all system engineering and design, fabrication, delivery, and installation of a complete operational photovoltaic system at Rosa Parks Elementary School in Berkeley, California. The project included the design and installation of a roof-mounted photovoltaic system with a generating capacity rated at approximately 20kW, including photovoltaic panels, mounting racks and supports, connections to structure, fully waterproof flashing/roofing integration, conduits, boxes, wiring, switches inverters, controls, system monitoring components including hardware and remote energy management software, and system commissioning free and clear of any liens or other encumbrances.

Projects

  1. Calbug: Database Using Arthropods to Examine the Impact of Climate Change and Habitat Modification
  2. China-California: Environmental Health Training Program
  3. Global Climate Change and Public Health: Planning a Regional China GEOHEALTH Hub
  4. Insect Diversity and Niche Specialization in Giant Sequoias
  5. Systematics of Window Flies
  6. Digitization TCN: Collaborative Research Plants, Herbivores, and Parasitoids
  7. Reproductive Effects of Disinfection By-products in Drinking Water
  8. Perchlorate and Thyroid Hormones in Pregnancy and Infants in Southern California
  9. HIA Program Development
  10. Placer County Biomass Energy Facility
  11. San Francisco Bay Seafood Consumption Study
  12. Develop Mid-trimester Screening Algorithms for Early Onset Preeclampsia
  13. Phytoestrogen and Time to Pregnancy
  14. Tobacco Exposure in Pregnant Women in Minority Populations
  15. Reduce Exposure to Unhealthy Air in the Imperial Valley, California near the U.S.-Mexico Border
  16. Neuro-Developmental Disabilities Screening and Assessment in Uganda
  17. Genome-Wide Association Study of Childhood Leukemia by Hispanic Status
  18. Characterization of CFTR Mutations Among Non-White CF Patients
  19. Building Capacity for Health Impact Assessment at State and Territorial Health Agencies
  20. Perinatal Exposure to Airborne Pollutants and Associations with Autism Phenotype
  21. Designing a Next Generation Science Standards Ready Air Quality Science High School Curriculum (Phase I and II)
  22. Social and Climate Change Migration Policy: Government of Tuvalu (South Pacific)
  23. Tobacco and cannabis exposure during pregnancy in six race/ethnic subgroups in California
  24. Studying Mothers and their Children at Risk from In Utero Exposure to Grandmaternal Smoking
  25. Public Health Effects of Increased Prescribe Burns for Wildlife Management
  26. East Bay Diesel Exposures Project (EBDEP)
  27. Expanding California Biomonitoring Database through Statewide Surveillance and Targeted Population Studies
  28. California Region Exposure Study 3 (CARE-3)
  29. California Region Exposure Study 2 (CARE-2)
  30. California Region Exposure Study I (CARE-LA)
  31. California's Strategic Plan Implementation Grants for Asthma
  32. Environmental Health Symposium for Promotores and Community Health Workers
  33. Palos Verdes Shelf Fish Contamination Project
  34. San Francisco Bay Fish Project
  35. Improve Low Rates of Childhood Lead Screening Amongst Health Care Providers
  36. Effectiveness of a Large Prenatal Tobacco Reduction Program
  37. California's Childhood Lead Poisoning Prevention Program
  38. Collection of Dried Blood Spots from Children for the Examination of CMV
  39. PBDE/Breast Milk Monitoring
  40. Early Childhood Mortality Study
  41. Preterm Markers Study-2006/07
  42. Maternal and Infant Genetic Contributions to Preterm Birth: the Inflammatory Response
  43. Preterm Markers Study-2009/10
  44. Development of a Research-Ready Pregnancy and Newborn Biobank in California
  45. National Newborn Screening and Genetics Resource Center
  46. Newborn Blood Spots, Collaborative Project with UCD Public Health Sciences Department
  47. Environmental and Molecular Epidemiology of Childhood Leukemia
  48. Evaluation of the Partnership for Smoke-Free Families Program
  49. Genetic Contributions to Preterm Birth Study
  50. Outcome Prediction in Children with Positive California Cystic Fibrosis Newborn Screening