Community Lectures and Events

The wild side of E. coli: Investigating the distribution and diversity of Escherichia coli in wild animals at Jasper Ridge Katherine Lagerstrom, PhD Candidate, Hadly Lab, Biology, Stanford University April 19, 2022 at 4:30 PM (PT) Escherichia coli is a well-known and important species of bacteria to humans, but is understudied in wild animals. E. coli residing in the guts... more

Hybridization, coloration, and genomics in the northern flicker Stepfanie M. Aguillon, PhD Stanford Science Fellow, Biology, Stanford University Tuesday, March 8, 2022 at 4:30 PM (PT) Red-shafted and yellow-shafted flickers are incredibly colorful woodpeckers that hybridize in the Great Plains. This hybridization leads to many individuals of intermediate coloration with mixed genetic ancestry (so called "hybrids" or "intergrades"). In this... more

Environmental Justice at Stanford: Environment, Community, Justice and Intersectionality Emily Polk, PhD, Notation in Science Communication; Sibyl Diver, PhD; Earth Systems Program; Richard Nevle, PhD, Earth Systems Program; Tanvi Dutta Gupta, ‘23, Biology. Tuesday, January 11, 2022 5:00 PM (PT) ZOOM Meeting The Environmental Justice Working Group (EJWG) at Stanford is an intergenerational collective working to embed environmental justice into... more

Past, Present, and Future of Prescribed Burns in California Dr. Rebecca Miller, Postdoctoral Scholar, Huntington-USC Institute on California and the West Tuesday, Decembrer 7, 2021 4:30 PM (PT) ZOOM Meeting Recent wildfires have prompted new policy conversations in California around the use of prescribed burns, referring to purposefully-set fires used to reduce the severity of a future wildfire. However, many... more

The event is now at capacity, docents have received their link in their email. Please visit the project website to stay up to date with upcoming events: https://searsville.stanford.edu/ Searsville Watershed Restoration Project Tom W. Zigterman, Senior Director of Water Resources & Civil Infrastructure, Stanford University, and Karla Traynor Smith, Senior Project Manager, Stanford University Tuesday, November 2, 2021 4:30 PM... more

Drought and the invasive Argentine ant at Jasper Ridge Deborah M. Gordon, Professor, Department of Biology, Stanford University. Tuesday, October 12, 2021 4:30 PM (PT) ZOOM Meeting Our twice-yearly survey of the ants of Jasper Ridge is now in its 28th year. The data show how changes in climate, especially drought, affect both invasive and native ants. The Argentine ants... more

Hands Off or Hands On? Perspectives on Managing Nature Jeffrey Schwegman, Ph.D., Assistant Dean for Humanities and Social Sciences, School of Humanities and Sciences, Stanford University Tuesday, June 1, 2021 4:30 PM (PT) ZOOM Meeting Should we let wild nature run its course within a nature preserve, or should we intervene to guide it in directions we deem beneficial? There... more

A holistic framework for characterizing landscape health in the Santa Cruz Mountains Dr. Kelly McManus Chauvin Postdoctoral Scholar Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve, Stanford University Tuesday, May 18, 2021 4:30 PM (PT) ZOOM Meeting The Santa Cruz Mountains is a hotspot of ecological diversity, with many kinds of rare habitats, special ecosystems, and threatened species. It is also a hotspot of... more

What’s soil got to do with climate change? Dr. Asmeret Asefaw Berhe, Professor of Soil Biogeochemistry, and Falasco Chair in Earth Sciences at the Department of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of California, Merced. The soil system stores twice as much more carbon than the atmosphere and all of the world’s vegetation combined. Exchange of greenhouse gases between the soil... more

Signals of a Persistent Pollutant: Characterizing the History, Distribution, and Bioaccumulation of Mercury at Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve (and beyond) Sergio Redondo, PhD Candidate, Hadly Lab, Department of Biology, Stanford University California’s geology, mining history and atmospheric deposition have led to extensive accumulation of mercury in the Bay Area, with troubling implications for human, wildlife and environmental health. Although mercury... more