SOD Blitz 2023 Spring Schedule

Sudden Oak Death Blitz Survey 2023


March 31 – Big Sur, Monterey & Carmel Valley

Monterey Peninsula Regional Park District, Palo Corona Discovery Center

4860 Carmel Valley Rd, Carmel-By-The-Sea, CA 93923

https://goo.gl/maps/PKkj6tEeFTj6v9SA8

Kerri Frangioso – kfrangioso@ucdavis.edu


April 15 – Napa

SOD Blitz Station located in the front porch of the Napa County Agriculture Commissioners Office Building, 1710 Soscol Avenue, Napa, CA

Bill Pramuk – info@billpramuk.com


April 21 – Marin County

SOD Blitz Station located at Dominican University, outside the main entrance to the Science Building, 155 Palm Avenue, San Rafael. (Please approach via Acacia Avenue: walk through a little park and cross over a wooden bridge)

Contacts: Wolfgang Schweigkofler wolfgang.schweigkofler@dominican.edu


April 22 – Saratoga

West Valley College, 14000 Fruitvale Ave, Saratoga, CA

Vivian Neou – vivian@neou.org


April 24 – First Nation Tribal Land

Heather Rickard – heather.d.rickard@gmail.com 


April 28 – South Skyline

SOD Blitz Station located in the Cal Fire CZU Station #21 (Saratoga Summit) parking lot

12900 Skyline Blvd, Los Gatos

Jane Manning – skyline_sod@yahoo.com


April 28 – UC Berkeley Campus

UC BERKELEY, SOD Blitz Pickup/Drop-Off Point, West Crescent Parking Kiosk, Berkeley, CA

Link to Location on Google Maps

Edo Scali – edoardo_scali@berkeley.edu


May 2 – San Francisco

Gabriel Ortega gabriel.ortega@sfgov.org, David Iribarne, Christa Conforti, and Mia Ingolia


May 5 – Native Here Nursery

Delia Taylor – deliataylor@mac.com


May 5 – San Luis Obispo

SOD Blitz Station in front of the SLO County Department of Agriculture, 350 N Main St, Templeton, CA

SOD Blitz Station in front of SLO County Department of Agriculture, 2156 Sierra Way, San Luis Obispo, CA.

Contacts: Kim Corella  Kim.Corella@fire.ca.gov

Cindy Roessler  skaaantics@yahoo.com


May 12 – East Bay

SOD Blitz Pickup/Drop-Off Point, West Crescent Parking Kiosk, Berkeley, CA

Link to Location on Google Maps

Doug Schmidt – contact@matteolab.org


May 12 – Orinda and John Muir National Historic Site

Pick up and drop off at the entrance to Fire Station 45, 33 Orinda Way, Orinda, CA

Bill Hudson – wllhh@ymail.com


May 12-15 – Santa Cruz

SOD Blitz Station at the front gate of the UCSC Arboretum. 

1156 High St, Santa Cruz, CA 95064. Location: Google Map LINK and coordinates. 36°58’55.1″N 122°03’40.8″W  

Jon Detka – jdetka@ucsc.edu, Liz Rennie – erennie@ucsc.edu, and Brett Hall


May 11 to 31 – Sonoma

Four Locations in Sonoma County – Link to Details

This is a bilingual event / Este es un evento bilingue

Más información para el SOD Blitz en español

 Kerry Wininger – kwininger@ucanr.edu


May 15 – John Muir National Historic Site

Victoria Seher –  Victoria_Seher@nps.gov


May 20 – Peninsula, Woodside/Portola Valley, and Los Alto Hills

Portola Valley – Blitz Station will be located on the Historic Schoolhouse porch, 765 Portola Road, Portola Valley

Woodside – Blitz Station will be located between Independence Hall and Town Hall, look for the signs out in front.

Los Altos Hills – Blitz Station will be located in front of the Town Hall Council Chambers, 26379 Fremont Rd.

Contacts: Debbie Mendelson  sodblitz@gmail.com

LAH: Sue Welch   sodblitz09@earthlink.net

Emerald Hills: Rochelle Kopp rnkopp@aol.com

Fioli: Haley O’connor hoconnor@filoli.org


June 2 – Santa Lucia Preserve (Residents)

Alix Soliman – asoliman@slconservancy.org and Kerri Frangioso – kfrangioso@ucdavis.edu


June 10 – Midpeninsula Regional Open Space District. 

5050 El Camino Real, Los Altos, CA

Arianna Nuri – anuri@openspace.org


June 11 – Mendocino County

South – Anchor Bay

North – In front of the Ford House, 45035 Main St., Mendocino

Nancy Morin – Nancy.Morin@nau.edu


North Coast

SOD Blitz Survey for nonprofit, state, and government employees

Wallis Robinson – wlrobinson@ucanr.edu


Burlingame Hills and North Peninsula

Date and Location TBD

Contact: TBD



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