A.  Center/Institute/Program

 

Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve/Stanford University

 

4001 Sand Hill Road

Woodside, CA 94062

 

Phone:  650-851-4380

Fax:  650-851-7334

E-mail:  nonajrbp@stanford.edu

Web Page:  http://jrbp.stanford.edu

 

Director/Chairperson:  Dr. Philippe Cohen

Representative to AERC:  Dr. Nona Chiariello

 

B.  Major objectives of the Center/Institute/Program

 

1.         Contribute to the understanding of the earth’s natural systems through research, education, and protection of the Preserve’s resources.

 

2.         Enable and facilitate significant, investigator-initiated studies of the environment.

 

3.         Promote scientific literacy and an understanding of how scientific knowledge is acquired, how science contributes to the world, and how natural environments are studied.

 

4.         Develop knowledge that has fundamental conservation value, both in terms of general importance and in terms of protection of local species or habitats.

 

C.  Major ecosystem research emphases

 

1.            Grassland responses to interacting, global environmental change.

 

2.            Mechanisms and impacts of biological invasions.

 

3.            Watershed hydrology, groundwater dynamics.

 

4.            Climate-vegetation relationships.

 

D.  Staff

 

JRBP

 

Permanent administrative staff:  Ph.D.:  1

Permanent scientific staff:  PhD: 1, MS:  1

Other support staff:  Education:  1, Publications:  1, Operations:  3, Financial:  1

 

 

Stanford affiliates conducting ecosystem research at JRBP

 

Faculty:  12

Postdoctoral fellows and senior staff:  8

Graduate students:  12

Technicians:  7

Undergraduates:  5

 

E.  Approximate annual funding (recent year)

 

Core funding:  $700,000/yr, Source:  Endowment, University general funds, donations, fees

Grants:  research grants to individuals - ~ $750,000,000/yr, Major sources:  NSF, USDA

 

F.  Areas and facilities for ecosystem research studies

 

1.         Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve (JRBP), 1189 ha total.

 

2.         9,000 sq. ft. building, completed in 2002, with offices, dry lab, classrooms, herbarium, archive space, meeting room.

 

3.         Bunkhouse for visiting researchers.

 

G.  Research staff directly involved in ecosystem research (names and specialty areas)

 

Anderson, Sean – restoration ecology, conservation biology

Asner, Greg – remote sensing, biogeochemistry

Berry, Joe – biosphere-atmosphere interactions

Boggs, Carol – population biology, conservation biology

Bohannan, Brendan – microbial ecology and biogeochemistry

Chiariello, Nona – grassland ecology and ecophysiology

Ehrlich, Paul – population biology, conservation biology

Field, Christopher – global ecology, ecosystem dynamics, biogeochemistry

Freyberg, David – hydrology and groundwater dynamics

Gordon, Deborah – ants, biological invasions, animal behavior

Hadly, Elizabeth – paleoecology, small mammals

Launer, Alan – conservation biology, aquatic ecology

Mooney, Harold – ecosystem ecology, biological invasions, global change

Somerville, Shauna – environmental effects on plant gene expression

Vitousek, Peter – nutrient cycling, biogeochemistry, ecosystem dynamics

 

H.  Long-term data sets (code name, number of years of data, computer accessibility)

 

GIS and climate data available for approved proposals, see:  http://jrbp.stanford.edu/pubdata.php.