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IRGASON unit of the Jasper Ridge Eddy Flux station

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Jasper Ridge Eddy Flux station

The Jasper Ridge Eddy Flux station provides data that can be used to address questions that span many different times scales and spatial scales:  1) how do different ecosystems respond to environmental changes?  2) how do changes in ecosystem metabolism feed back to affect the environment?

Triteleia herbarium sheet

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Jasper Ridge Oakmead Herbarium (JROH)

The Oakmead Herbarium, located in the Leslie Shao-ming Sun Field Station at Jasper Ridge, contains more than 6000 mounted specimens representing almost 900 vascular plant taxa found at the Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve, together with collections of bryophytes and lichens.  The 850,000-specimen

Forest canopy above hydrology monitoring project

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Monitoring forest hydrology with side-facing UHF-band radar

Drought in California and much of the western United States has been severe enough over the last two decades to be considered a mega-drought, possibly the worst in a millenium.  Prolonged drought such as this reduces agricultural yields, and increases forest mortality and wildfire risk.  Despite

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Monitoring of flow and water quality

San Francisquito Creek begins in JRBP at the confluence of Bear Creek and the outflow from Searsville Lake. It flows more than 12 miles to the Bay and is unchannelized for nearly half its length.

Sampling treehole mosquitoes with a turkey baster

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Mosquitoes and their parasites in a changing climate

This study examines the western treehole mosquito Aedes sierrensis and its facultative parasite Lambornella clarki as a model system for studying climate change effects on host-parasite interactions. 

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Oak regeneration ecology

During the summer of 2009 Rodolfo Dirzo began a long term study of the impact of herbivory by large mammals, principally deer and rabbits, on 3 oak species. For the study, Rodolfo identified 75 pairs of oak seedlings for each of 3 species: Quercus agrifolia, Q.lobata, and Q.

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