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Heading into the holiday weekend, we’re feeling grateful for everyone who makes Jasper Ridge thrive: staff, students, faculty, docents, committees, and nature itself. Like this flock of mallards lifting off over Searsville Reservoir, our community rises together. Thank you! Photo credit: Dan Quinn
Photo credit: Dan Quinn. A flock of Mallard ducks (Anas platyrhynchos) in flight leaving Searsville Lake.
November 26, 2025 at 6:14 PM
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Check out the 2025 November newsletter!
- Hear from Indigenous youth attending the 2nd Muwekma campout
- Learn how AI @stanford.edu is being used to ID biodiversity
- Read a docents adventure to save milkweed from invasive teasel
- And more exciting research! Link: jrbp.stanford.edu/news/jrbpoo-...
Banana slug!
November 14, 2025 at 8:33 PM
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Our October 2025 newsletter just crawled into our blogs section (link in bio)! Inside, you'll find details on new community lectures starting Oct 21, updates on new research projects, & our latest student highlights! Plus, check out a great tarantula (Aphonopelma sp.) photo by Trevor Hébert!
tarantula (Aphonopelma sp.)
October 17, 2025 at 8:20 PM
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This morning we spotted a male California quail (Callipepla californica) acting as a sentinel (a lookout), perched high and watching for predators. Photos by Jorge Ramos. #californiaquail #quail #callipeplacalifornica. Read more about the California state bird: birdsoftheworld.org/bow/species/...
California quail (Callipepla californica) California quail (Callipepla californica)
September 24, 2025 at 7:03 PM
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Visit Dr. Adriana Hernandez and @fukamit.bsky.social poster (P105) on Monday! They are investigating the post-burning effects of #chaparral ecosystems, and after year one, they were surprised to find an exciting #fire follower, invasives, and many taxa resprouting! #Botany2025
The western bewildering bushmallow, Malacothamnus arcuatus var. arcuatus, form rings around the edges of piles.
July 25, 2025 at 2:34 PM
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The 2025 Jasper Ridge Docent Graduation and Summer Picnic celebrated new scientifically trained docents and recognized multiple achievements by students! The event also marked the 50th anniversary of the Jasper Ridge docent program! Read more: jrbp.stanford.edu/news/2025-gr...
Group picture of docents of Jasper Ridge! 50th anniversary celebratory cakes! Poster board listing all docents and the award of merit!
June 16, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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Happy Earth Day from a majestic valley oak (Quercus lobata) at Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve ('Ootchamin 'Ooyakma)! #earthday #earthday2025
valley oak (Quercus lobata)
April 22, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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Enjoy a virtual research hike with the @stanford.edu Report article titled "Long-term studies at Jasper Ridge yield insights into oak ecosystems". Read how Prof Rodolfo Dirzo, student Chrysanthe Frangos, & team investigate the California native trees. Link: news.stanford.edu/stories/2025...
Enjoy a virtual research hike with the @stanford.edu Report article titled "Long-term studies at Jasper Ridge yield insights into oak ecosystems"
April 7, 2025 at 7:08 PM
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In the 50th anniversary of the Jasper Ridge docent class, the JRBP ('O'O) docents were recognized with the @stanford.edu Alumni Associates Award of Merit. Last Saturday, alumni & docents Dawn Neisser & Julien Wright-Ueda accepted the award on behalf of the community jrbp.stanford.edu/news/docent-...
Dawn Neisser and Julien Wright-Ueda are presented the Award of Merit at the Stanford Associates Awards Ceremony. Top left: Julien Ueda resurveying the Blair bird count points for his honors thesis. Photo by Trevor Hebert. Top middle: Transect E birders on the trail. From left: Sally Jackson, Jan Schachter, Rob Jackson, Karen Greig, Mike Frank, Sara Timby. Photo by Dan Quinn. Top right: Phil Leighton with a spotting scope. Photo by Dan Quinn. Bottom left: Transect C bird count team with Maya Xu, Marty Freeland, Andy Huynh, Yuchen Li and Chloe Cheng. Photo by Maya Xu. Bottom right: Mary Ann Allan and Naomi Goodman doing the monthly Transect A bird count at Jasper Ridge. Photo by Sonny Mencher. Top: The herbarium crew after pulling 5,000+ invasive plants. Photo by Alice Cummings. Bottom left: Dawn Neisser places an herbarium specimen in the digitization box, which houses a camera and lights to capture high quality images, while Diane Renshaw and Teal Derrer key specimens. Photo by Adriana Hernandez. Bottom right: The herbarium crew helps survey vegetation around burn piles. Photo by Alice Cummings. Top: Docent class of 1975 joins a geochemistry class from campus (Ann Lambrecht is the one in the hat). Photo taken from The Stanford Magazine for Spring/Summer 1975. Instructor Herb Dengler is standing (medium-brown shirt, darker brown jacket). Photo from Ann Lambrecht. Bottom: The docent class of 2024 is welcomed by the docent community after new students practiced leading a tour. Photo credit Jorge Ramos and Bob Siegel.
April 2, 2025 at 6:04 PM
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Spring is here & wildflowers are blooming! Clockwise from top left: Mosquito bills (Primula hendersonii), California poppy (Eschscholzia californica), Hound’s tongue (Adelinia grandis) & warrior plume (Pedicularis densiflora). Photo J. Ramos. March 2025: jrbp.stanford.edu/news/jrbpoo-...
Clockwise from top left: Mosquito bills / sailor caps (Primula hendersonii), California poppy (Eschscholzia californica), Hound’s tongue (Adelinia grandis ((Cynoglossum grande)) and warrior plume (Pedicularis densiflora). Photo credits J. Ramos.
March 18, 2025 at 10:03 PM
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Explore the Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve ('Ootchamin 'Ooyakma) 2023-2024 Annual Report! It illustrates a year filled with significant research, education, and stewardship milestones - and beautiful pictures from our docents! Link to blog post here: jrbp.stanford.edu/news/2023-20...
Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve ('Ootchamin 'Ooyakma) 2023-2024 Annual Report with picture of an acorn woodpecker in flight
March 18, 2025 at 9:49 PM
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Fungi at Jasper Ridge! 1st image: Pleurotus ostreatus, OYSTER MUSHROOM. Pic by Alice Cummings. 2nd. Clavaridelphus ligula, STRAP CORAL. Pic by Alice Cummings. 3rd. Resident Ranger, Brooke leading a mushroom walk!
Pleurotus ostreatus, OYSTER MUSHROOM. Pic by Alice Cummings 2nd. Clavaridelphus ligula, STRAP CORAL. Resident Ranger, Brooke leading a mushroom walk!
February 25, 2025 at 2:48 AM
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A coyote peeking into our offices. The scientific name for a coyote is Canis latrans, which translates from Latin as barking dog. In Chochenyo language the word for coyote is máyyan. The common name, coyote, is derived from the language Nahuatl (Aztec) word coyōtl.
A coyote peeking into our offices
February 4, 2025 at 4:40 AM
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2023-2024 Year in Review
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California poppy flowers at Jasper Ridge
January 29, 2025 at 12:28 AM
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Student project feature from the latest BIO/EARTHSYS 105 cohort
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The abundance and species identity of ticks picked up by volunteers on cycling patrols throughout the preserve in spring 2024. Image created by Derek Knowles. View of Searsville Reservoir, looking south in May 2024. Photo by María Gloria Robalino Ceped. Part of a recipe card for Yerba Santa (Eriodictyon sp.) Ice Cream, one of ten botanical recipes that are part of Pearl, Isabella, and Tina's interactive StoryMap
January 29, 2025 at 12:27 AM
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Basket weaving comes to Jasper Ridge with Corine Pearce
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Corine Pearce teaching basket weaving to Stanford students (photo by Tadashi Fukami) A group of graduate and professional students show their basket creations (photo by Katie Glover)
January 29, 2025 at 12:24 AM
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Muwekma youth campout at 'Ootchamin 'Ooyakma
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Participants gather behind Leslie Shao-ming Sun Field Station at the beginning of the campout. Photo by Marina Luccioni.
January 29, 2025 at 12:22 AM
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Muwekma youth campout, how it came about and why
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Muweuka youth member Aria Cazares looking at a Swainson’s thrush as PhD student Julian Tattoni shows how to band a bird. Photo by Marina Luccioni.
January 29, 2025 at 12:20 AM
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Natural History Note: Camera trapping reveals the impact of fuel reduction on woodrat nesting behavior
#wildlife #conservation
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An image of two dusky-footed woodrats captured at night by a camera trap.
January 29, 2025 at 12:18 AM
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Long distance wildlife tracking reveals waypoints from Jasper Ridge to Mexico. #birds #ornithology #birdmigration #motus
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A Swainson's thrush with a radio tag on its back. Photo by Trevor Hebert.
January 29, 2025 at 12:16 AM
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Intentional burning awakens a fire follower: Indigenous connections.
At Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve ('Ootchamin 'Ooyakma), a rare, locally endemic plant is growing vigorously in the area where intentional burning was applied to chaparral earlier this year.
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Western bewildering bushmallow plants growing around a burned pile
January 29, 2025 at 12:13 AM
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Intentional burning awakens a fire follower: a botanical account #botany #science
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A top view of the western bewildering bushmallow, a rare San Francisco Bay area endemic.
January 29, 2025 at 12:09 AM
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Summer interns help unlock the mysteries of Jasper Ridge's migratory birds #birds #science
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Julian Tattoni, the founder of the Jasper Ridge bird-banding station, gives a Swainson’s Thrush its Motus backpack. Photos by Trevor Hebert and Marty Freeland.
January 29, 2025 at 12:06 AM
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Explore new Jasper Ridge student projects! -Lessons Learned from 1,600 Ticks by Derek Knowles
-Meditation on Pedagogy: (Un)Translating Jasper Ridge by AJ Naddaff
-Food as Medicine at Jasper Ridge by Pearl Shing-Roth, Isabella Cruz-Krahn, Tina Truong
Link: https://t.co/r8WrOL2NaU
January 16, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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The first rain event of fall 2024 refreshed our ecosystems this morning with 2 mm (0.08 in) of rain. Check out some of our plants holding on to a few raindrops.
January 16, 2025 at 6:01 PM