Stanford
Conservation Program

Current and Past Research Collaborations

We collaborate with students on class projects, internships, capstone projects, and masters and doctoral level dissertations. Students and projects affiliated with our program are listed chronologically below:

Current Projects

How fungi enhance ecosystem resilience and support restoration efforts
Meili Stanten (PhD Candidate) and the Peay and Jackson labs in collaboration with Stanford's Sustainability Accelerator (2025 - present)

Smesh: Radio Sensor Networks to Support Fire Management
Jessica Yu, PhD and the Stanford Radio Club (2024 - present)

Impacts of prescribed fire on microbially-mediated biogeochemical cycling
Katie Huy (PhD Candidate, 2024 - present)

2026

Carbon sequestration and ecosystem benefits of native oak restoration
Becca Monge (BS, MS, Earth Systems, Sustainable Stanford Living Lab Fellow 2025-2026)

2025

Projecting Carbon Sequestered through Restoration
Tanya Arora (MS, Environmental Engineering, Sustainable Stanford Living Lab Fellow 2024-2025)

2024

Flower Phenology in Lagunita’s Ephemeral Wetlands
Mitchell Zimmerman (BS, MS Earth Systems)

Nature-based Carbon Accounting in Terrestrial Open Space
Lihan Huang (MS, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Sustainable Stanford Living Lab Fellow 2023-2024)

2021

Design, Modelling, and Control of Vine Robots for Exploration of Unknown Environments
Margaret M. Coad (PhD, Mechanical Engineering)

2020

Image of a badger burrow in a grassland.

Burrowing Mammals on Stanford Lands: Distribution and Environmental Drivers
Fiona O'Keefe (BS, Earth Systems)


 

2019

Jerricho holding a crayfish.

Removal of Invasive Species of Crayfish in Matadero Creek
Jerricho Habon (RISE High School Intern)




 
 

2017

A new paradigm for the conservation of turtles: ecosystem-based approaches for understanding population variability
Maria Malgorzata Wojakowski (PhD, Biology)

Map of invasive species documented by Xavier and Matt within Stanford's creeks.

Distribution and Abundance of 7 Invasive Plants along two Creeks within the Matadero and San Francisquito Watersheds on Stanford Lands
Xavier Gomez (RISE High School Intern, BS, MS Earth Systems '23), Matthew Fogarty

 

2016

Barriers to Wildlife Migration in the Coyote Valley: Year Two
Colleen Henn, Sophia Huang, Eddie Kelinsky, and Ryan Suttle
 
 

Image of invertebrate larva taken through the lens of a microscope.

Phenology of Pelagic Invertebrates in Constructed Vernal Ponds at Stanford, California
Nessarose Schear, Esther Marika Cole Adelsheim, Alan Launer


 

Blooming Prettyface, a yellow, native lily species.

Propagation of native California forbs from local wild populations at Stanford, CA
Kenneth Qin, Vasundhara Kandpal, Esther Marika Cole Adelsheim