We welcome queries about trees on campus and off, requests for identification of trees, tips on unusual trees you have sighted, and reports of any errors on this site. If you’d like to collaborate or brainstorm, let’s have a chat. For tree maintenance please contact Stanford Grounds Services.
Sairus Patel, lead editor of the award-winning Trees of Stanford website since 2014, assists in teaching campus classes by invitation and leads tree tours, presenting the history of his alma mater through an arboreal lens. With a background in font formats, he brings a love for elegant typography to his work and consults for botanical publishers and institutions on both visual style and content. He has served on the boards of Canopy and Pacific Horticulture, where he taught tree identification, photographed for online catalogs, and exercised meticulous care in the accuracy and styling of botanical names.
Contact Sairus at saiINVALIDrusINVALID@stanford.edu.
John Rawlings, co-editor, formed the Trees of Stanford website in 2003 while researching the book Trees of Stanford and Environs. In 2014 he retired from an extensive career at Stanford University Libraries. He is an affiliate of Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve, where he does field work and maintains the herbarium website. John and naturalist Ken Hickman are in their sixth year of surveys for Midpeninsula Regional Open Space District, currently working on an inventory of locally rare plants in the Santa Cruz Mountains Bioregion, in collaboration with botanists Toni Corelli and Dylan Neubauer.
Contact John at rawINVALIDlingsINVALID@stanford.edu.
