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Photo: Callie Chappell Tadashi (Tad) Fukami, Professor of Biology and of Earth System Science, became the faculty director of Jasper Ridge on September 1. He succeeds Professor Liz Hadly, who has stepped down after serving for seven years. Tad is a leading community ecologist who is well known to the Jasper Ridge community for his research and teaching on the... more

Liz Hadly with Vipulan Puvaneswaran and Bella Lack during filming the documentary ‘Animal’ at Jasper Ridge. After seven years of guiding Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve as Faculty Director, Liz Hadly will hand over the reins to Tad Fukami on September 1. “It’s been the privilege of a lifetime to have been part of Jasper Ridge over the past few years,”... more

We are excited to welcome Dr. Katherine C. Glover to our Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve team as the new Associate Director for Environmental Education. With more than 15 years of experience, Katie will continue leading the education and outreach pillar of Jasper Ridge that has been growing since its inception in 1975 and also build innovative and exciting opportunities for... more

Apply to be Stewardship Interns at Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve! The two interns will join the team and work with Jasper Ridge staff, faculty and docents to support expanding stewardship efforts at Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve for, land management, protecting biodiversity, and developing resiliency for climate change. The role will include a mix of field and office work. Field work... more

Congratulations to JRBP Executive Director Jorge Ramos, recipient of the 2023 “Eugene P. Odum Award for Excellence in Ecology Education” from the Ecological Society of America! As Associate Director for Environmental Education at Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve from 2019 to 2022, and as Executive Director since 2022, Dr. Jorge Ramos has been an agent of change for expanding opportunities in... more

Earlier this summer, Jasper Ridge hosted a Fire Fuels Ecology workshop with 25 experts in the areas of wildfire modeling, fire emergency response, land-management, risk management, indigenous practice, research, education, policy making, law and ecology. The purpose of the workshop was to review the 2021 Stanford Wildfire Management Plan (2021 SWMP) which identifies areas for fuel reduction across all University... more

We are pleased to announce the 2022 Jasper Ridge Environmental Education Scholar Award: Bianca Silva Santos! Bianca is a PhD student in the Emmett Interdisciplinary Program in Environment and Resources , where she focuses her research around science and policy for managing human impacts on highly migratory marine animals in the Pacific. Her research applies interdisciplinary methods from the fields... more

An ongoing exhibit at the Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW) in Berlin, Germany features Searsville Reservoir as one of the twelve sites from around the world that are being considered as the global reference site defining a new geological epoch, the Anthropocene. Entitled Earth Indices , the exhibit opened May 19 and will run through October 17, 2022. It... more

Pythagorus once proposed that sun, moon, stars, and Earth make a harmonious universe of sound called the music of the spheres. Contemporary earth system science confirms that spheres make our planet function. Not by divine music, however, but in a complex interplay among the atmosphere, the hydrosphere, the lithosphere (geology) and the biosphere. Today the interactions among these spheres are... more

Climate change in recent years has extended the length of the fire season and increased the intensity and frequency of wildfires in our area, as is the case through much of the American West. Recent analyses commissioned by the Midpeninsula Open Space District and the Santa Cruz Mountains Stewardship Network suggest these trends will continue. In 20 to 40 years... more