JRBP ('O'O) January 2025

 

 

January 2025

 

 

Join us on Jan 21, 4-6 PM to meet and be in conversation with our very own associate director for environmental education, Katie Glover. Katie will share her presentation titled: “Exploring the Past and Future of California’s Ecosystems” and incorporate the material to tours at Jasper Ridge! Bring a friend with you! For more information, visit our educational event page.

 

We will be hosting a convening for prescribed fire research. Almost one year after the pile burns, the convening will include research presentations and a panel session with faculty, for the community to gain new insights on pile burn research. Please visit the event page and click on the RSVP form

 

The Stewardship Intern Program is an opportunity for Stanford students to work at Jasper Ridge to further develop existing skills in ecology, natural history and field work, while learning about stewardship and research under the mentorship of a diverse team of scientists. Deadline Feb 21, 2025. More information and application here!

 

 

Dr. Amaury Payelleville, postdoctoral researcher in Prof. and Faculty Dir. Tad Fukami’s lab, will sample the microorganismal community (including nematodes, fungi, and bacteria) in the soil surrounding oak islands, or standalone “lonely oaks”, to compare the diversity and composition of microorganisms in those soils to the soil community in adjacent dense oak woodlands. This project ultimately aims to evaluate the spatial and temporal diversity of soil microorganisms in island-like landscapes.

 

 

Our Stanford Conservation and SOAR partner Esther Adelsheim and Rodolfo Dirzo received funding for “SOAR Professional Development Short Course” with our Bay Area partners at UCSC, SCU, SJSU, West Valley College, and San Francisco Bay Bird Observatory. Read more about the SOAR network.

To explore the other OCE grants, including the 2025 Ootchamin 'Ooyakma Youth Campout: Muwekma–Stanford Partnership for Land Stewardship award, visit the 2025 Community Engagement Impact Projects.

 

The next in-person Title IX and Safe Field Practices training will take place at Jasper Ridge for our docent community from 10 AM - 12 PM on Saturday March 1, 2025. As a reminder, all docents leading tours must take a training refresher every two years. Reach out Katie Glover if you need to check the status of your last training and timing for your renewal. More details will be sent in a separate email.

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Stewardship Scientist Sheena Sidhu is developing two major stewardship plans for Jasper Ridge: an invasive species management plan, and a fuel monitoring & maintenance plan. Contact Sheena Sidhu for more information.

 

 

Thank you, docents for your help leading tours in the first weeks of January: Maya Xu, Sue Schmitt, Suart Koretz, Alix Marduel, Jane Moss, Nancy Bavor, Adelaide Nye, Dawn Neisser.

 

Thank you, docents, for helping researchers Jerry Hearn and Bill Gomez

 

 

Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve ('Ootchamin 'Ooyakma) has a strong 50-year track record of environmental research and education. The beautiful landscape of the preserve is now undergoing changes of an unprecedented scale, with fire fuel reduction efforts recently initiated and dam and watershed modification projects soon to begin and continue over the next few decades. This will be a period of major transformation, which can be a source of extreme anxiety. However, it also brings unique opportunities for innovative research and education on environmental stewardship. Initial steps are being taken on this new frontier, guided by both Western and Indigenous science, the approach known as two-eyed seeing. However, given the sheer scale of landscape changes to come, philanthropic support would help greatly to advance Jasper Ridge toward a future where faculty and students continue to learn and make discoveries that inspire the world like it always has. 

 

To support JRBP ('O'O) new challenges, please visit our Donate page (link here). Gracias! Thank you!

 

 

A coyote peeking into Jorge's office this week. In Chochenyo language the word for coyote is máyyan. The common name, coyote, is derived from the language Nahuatl (Aztec) word coyōtl. The scientific name for a coyote is Canis latrans, which translates from Latin as barking dog.