Projects

Past

The Remote Winds art installation translates wind into light. This project connects visitors to the new McMurtry Building on the Stanford campus with the daily rhythm of air currents flowing off the Pacific, over the northern reaches of the Santa Cruz Mountains and San Francisco Bay. 

Past

Construction of Searsville Dam in the 1890s created a biotically important lake in a watershed with a high sediment load. Siltation has now reduced the capacity of the lake by about 90 percent.

Past

Many North American ants and lycaenid butterflies have a mutualistic relationship in which the ants protect butterfly larvae from parasitoid wasps, and the butterfly larvae secrete honeydew which the ants consume.