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Seismic monitoring station, JRSC
The Jasper Ridge seismic station (JRSC) was installed in 1994 by a team from Stanford (Robert Kovach, Geophysics), the USGS, and UC Berkeley. It is part of a network of seismic stations in northern and central California maintained and operated by the Berkeley Digital Seismic Network (BDSN). Bill Karavas of UC Berkeley maintains the JRSC.
The station consists of a highly sensitive seismometer that sits on a concrete pad inside a pre-existing cave on the west shore of Searsville Lake. The cave is overlain by 30 vertical feet of bedrock, and is sealed with a steel bulkhead door. Both of these features help make the station seismically quiet.
The seismometer records signals in a digital format over a broad frequency band ranging from 0.008Hz to 50Hz, with an overall dynamic range of 200dB. This means that nearby magnitude 6+ earthquakes will not saturate the system, yet much smaller magnitude earthquakes (ca. M=1) can also be detected.
Data from the station are ... Read More
Mountain lions caught on camera at Stanford's Jasper Ridge
Researchers at Stanford's Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve often encounter signs of mountain lion activity, from lion scat to the occasional deer carcass covered with leaves. But few have actually caught a glimpse of the shy feline.
Now, images captured by remote wildlife cameras confirm that mountain lions (also called pumas or cougars) make regular visits to JRBP.
Read full article at Stanford News.
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New report on mountain lions at Jasper Ridge
Mountain Lions at Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve: An Exercise in Management and Policy Options,
authored by five members of the Rising Environmental Leaders Network (RELN) at Stanford, is now available for download.
The RELN is a project at the Woods Institute for the Environment designed for postdoctoral fellows and PhD students ...
read more and download the report.
Successful prescribed burn at JRBP
The California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection (Cal Fire), in collaboration with Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve,
conducted a small, prescribed burn inside the preserve's main entrance on Sand Hill Road on Monday, July 18, 2011.
The prescribed burn was confined to just 1.2 acres of grassland and provided a range of benefits for management and research.
More information, including videos and photos, is available at jrbp.stanford.edu/fire.php.
JRBP a classroom for Peninsula students
The San Jose Mercury News recently published an article written by Jasper
Ridge docent Caroline Hodge about the Eastside Field Studies program at
Jasper Ridge. Sixth graders from Eastside College Prep in East Palo Alto
visit JRBP once a week for the duration of spring quarter, where they
participate in hands-on ecology lessons led by docent-trained Stanford
students.
Read the full article at www.mercurynews.com/home-garden/.
REAL Program to receive the Stanford Community Partnership Award
The Redwood Environmental Academy of Leadership ( REAL ) program has been awarded the Community partnership award from the Stanford Office of Government and Community Relations.
Click here to read more about the program.
JRBP faculty director Chris Field to receive Heinz Award for environmental science and leadership
Stanford researcher and JRBP faculty director Chris Field will be one of the 10 recipients of the 2009 Heinz Awards. The Heinz Family Foundation is recognizing Field "for his leadership and innovation in carbon cycle and climate science."
Field, a professor of biology and earth systems science at Stanford, also serves as the director of the Carnegie Institution's Department of Global Ecology and is a co-chair of IPCC Working Group 2.
Read more at Stanford News Service
Jasper Ridge provides hands-on learning for local students
Local high school students are learning ecology at Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve through the Redwood Environmental Academy of Leadership (REAL), a program based at Redwood High School in Redwood City.
The REAL program is funded by a grant from the Stanford Initiative on Improving K-12 Education.
Read more at Stanford News Service
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JRBP Mission Statement
The mission of Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve is to contribute to the understanding
of the Earth's natural systems through research, education, and protection of the
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