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The birding team surveys with binoculars across a transect. Photo by Dan Quinn. Since 1975, the docent community of Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve ('Ootchamin 'Ooyakma) has been volunteering to offer natural history research and educational experiences to the public and offer research assistance to many faculty and students of Stanford. After 50 years of excellent service, volunteers were granted the... more

Caption: Adriana dissects flowers of Castilleja (paintbrushes) to image on a scanner. Credit: Gayle Laid at the California Academy of Sciences. Welcome Dr. Adriana Hernandez! We are excited to welcome Dr. Adriana Hernandez as she steps into her new role as the Associate Director for Research at Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve starting next year on January 4, 2024. Adriana will... more

Nona Chiariello, Staff Scientist at Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve, will retire from Stanford University in January 2024 after serving in this role for more than 35 years. Over the past 50 years of Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve, the preserve has been blessed with a constant flow of dedicated people involved in accomplishing research, education, and conservation goals. However, Nona is... more

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! To learn more about the JRBP 'O'O Stewardship Internship please visit the website to apply (click here)! 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... 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

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