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Jasper Ridge Global Change Experiment
The Jasper Ridge Global Change Experiment (JRGCE) studies the response of California grassland to 4 environmental factors changing globally--warming, nitrogen deposition, elevated carbon dioxide, and increased precipitation--applied in a full-factorial design. The experiment covers 3 ha of grassland and has operated since 1998, with treatments beginning in the fall of 1998. The four global change treatments, and all possible combinations, are applied in a split-plot, randomized block design with 8 replicates, a total of 128 experimental units. A wildfire in the summer of 2003 burned two of the replicates in each treatment, dropping the level of replication to six in the main experiment, but adding fire as a replicated treatment. There are also 8 replicates of a true control, with no treatment infrastructure. This comprehensive study involves a third of all JRBP researchers.
Over the first 5 years of the experiment, supplemental nitrate deposition produced the largest increase in ... Read More
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
New Restoration Ecology Fellowship Program at JRBP
Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve is pleased to announce a new fellowship program to support a visiting scholar,
focused on the emerging science of restoration ecology.
Click here for details (PDF)
2007-2008 Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve
Annual Report
The 2007-2008 Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve Annual Report is now available for download in Adobe Acrobat (PDF) format.
Click here to download.
JRBP Draft Strategic Plan
The draft JRBP strategic plan reviewed by the External Review Committee is available online at
jrbp.stanford.edu/stratplan.php.
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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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