About the Preserve
Stanford University’s Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve (JRBP) is in the eastern foothills of the Santa Cruz Mountains, about five miles southwest of the main campus. The preserve encompasses remarkable geologic, topographic, and biotic diversity within its 483 hectares (1,193 acres) and provides a natural laboratory for researchers from all over the world, educational experiences to students and docent-led visitors, and refuge to native plants and animals.
The Anthropocene has arrived, and at Jasper Ridge, we have been using a record of the past century archived in Searsville Reservoir to understand what that means. The Anthropocene is being proposed as a new geologic epoch by... more
Ecology is full of scientific names. Escherichia coli, Homo sapiens, Canis lupis. You’ve probably heard of these before. But what about Ixodes pacificus, Dermacentor occidentalis, or Haemaphysalis longicornis? What are these? And more importantly, who cares? The three... more
Over the course of my first year at Stanford, I became increasingly interested in how people interact with their landscapes. I came to Stanford set on majoring in earth systems, but I accidentally fell in love with art... more
The paintings in this collection of wildflower watercolors were done by Herb Dengler in the 1980s and 1990s from specimens gathered on Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve. They are printed on an Iris printer in a limited edition of 250, each numbered and containing an engraved authentication. Learn More
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