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DOWNLOAD A WALLET-SIZE REFERENCE CARD WITH THE ADDRESS MAP AND CURRENT STAFF PHONE NUMBERS, OR PICK UP A PRINTED EMERGENCY CARD NEXT TIME YOU ARE AT SUN FIELD STATION To aid emergency responders, we recently obtained official addresses for most Jasper Ridge gates. Our direct mailing and Main Gate address remains the same: • 4001 Sand Hill Road, Woodside, CA... more

We are delighted to welcome Jorge Ramos to Jasper Ridge as our newest team member. Jorge will be assuming the role of Associate Director for Environmental Education as of May 13, taking over the guidance of the preserve’s education program from Cindy Wilber when she retires in June. He was the top candidate in an international search that saw more... more

JRBP education coordinator Cindy Wilber will retire from Stanford in June after a 21-year career at Jasper Ridge creating and administering educational programs that instill a love of outdoor learning, promote diversity in the field of ecology, and inspire students to give back through outreach education. Her dedicated teaching and mentoring have touched the lives of everyone at Jasper Ridge... more

The ‘ Out of the Box - Into the Cloud ’ initiative at Jasper Ridge is going to start exploring the soundscape ecology of the various habitats found within Jasper Ridge by deploying autonomous recording units for a week's worth of continual recordings across the preserve. We are also exploring how we can develop these acoustic recorders further by making... more

Alan Grundmann was the first administrative director of Stanford's nearly 1,200-acre Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve, a position he held from 1976 until his retirement in 1993. In addition to overall responsibility for the entire preserve, Alan oversaw the transition of the Searsville site from a recreational area visited by people from all over the San Francisco peninsula for swimming, picnicking,... more

Two years ago, we at Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve began conversations with our stakeholders to assess how the preserve could most effectively contribute to our university, our broader community, and the world. The result is the strategic plan we’re delighted to unveil today, Achieving the Vision. The process included faculty, staff, students, thought leaders in surrounding communities, alumni, Jasper Ridge... more

We’re pleased to make available our 2017-18 Annual Report —with a twist. In the interest of saving trees, this year the report will appear only in digital form: click here to view and download it . But never fear if you were looking forward to a hard copy—there is a companion piece to this year’s Annual Report that you will... more

View of smoky skies at Jasper Ridge on November 15, 2018, taken from one of our live-video fire-lookout stations. The smoke is from a fire burning 205 miles to the north in Butte County, the most devastating California wildfire on record. The recent tragic wildfires in California highlight the need for increased vigilance in preventing fire outbreaks in our area... more

The Jasper Ridge Global Change Experiment (JRGCE), a longterm ecosystem study and landmark at Jasper Ridge, is being dismantled, 21 years after the experiment was set up. Conceived and led by professor Christopher Field, the initial goals were conceptually straightforward—to understand whether the effects of global change that is realistically multi-factor could be predicted by summing the effects of individual... more

Researchers David Koweek, Clara Garcia-Sanchez, and Ken Caldeira, from the Carnegie Institution for Science and Stanford University, are using Searsville Reservoir as a model system to test a new method for reversing hypoxia, or low dissolved oxygen, in aquatic ecosystems. Hypoxia occurs naturally when decomposition of organic matter consumes oxygen in bottom waters and there is insufficient mixing with well-oxygenated... more