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“Demain (Tomorrow)” ( Demain trailer ), an award-winning, uplifting documentary about solutions to the world’s environmental problems, was shown in Palo Alto on Sept 30, one of its first screenings in the US. The film was inspired by a scientific study led by JRBP Faculty Director Liz Hadly and Executive Director Tony Barnosky, who are featured in the film and... more

Chris Field, JRBP’s faculty director since 2005, will become director of the Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment, effective September 1. Chris’s contributions at Jasper Ridge span four decades. His research began a year after the preserve’s formal designation, and he has since authored 78 publications reporting research at JRBP, more than any other individual. As faculty director, Chris emphasized... more

Three new publications illustrate the breadth of JRBP research on microbes and their roles in ecosystem processes, disease ecology, and ecological interactions. Reporting on studies from the Jasper Ridge global change experiment, LeRoux et al. report on a diverse guild of soil bacteria—nitrite oxidizers—which help regulate the availability of nitrogen to plants and the loss of nitrogen from ecosystems. By... more

Mistletoe is well known for giving license to holiday kisses but has a vampire-like quality for the trees it grows on. It is a hemisparasite: though it photosynthesizes on its own, it extracts water and nutrients from its host tree. Jasper Ridge has a single mistletoe species, and it can be found on multiple oak species. Until now there was... more

JRBP was featured on the cover of the January 12, 2016 issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, in an image by Greg Asner et al. that illustrates 3-dimensional mapping of the water content of tree canopies by the Carnegie Airborne Observatory. JRBP has been a reference site in their survey of moisture stress across all of... more

Studio 2 is an eco, micro, mobile art space for the street or the foothills. Three weeks before most students arrived on campus to start fall quarter 2015, guest artist David Szlasa was building an arts studio with students at Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve. The studio was built from salvaged materials largely from scrap material available at the Jasper Ridge... more

CHRIS FIELD , a professor of biology and of Earth system science at Stanford, has been honored for the clear and compelling manner in which he explains climate-change science to the public. The 2015 Stephen H. Schneider Award for Outstanding Climate Science Communication is being given to Field by Climate One, a special project of the Commonwealth Club of California... more

A Stanford University committee has completed an extensive, four-year study of the future of Searsville Dam and Reservoir, located in the university's Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve in the San Francisquito Creek watershed. more