In 2021, we have launched a new field station on Stanford campus that can host 30,000 Arabidopsis thaliana pots.  This station has 27 sections distributed in 9 rows x 3 segments equipped with a sprinkler systems that are independently programmed to simulate rainfall patterns.  Our aim is to test the ability of genetically-distinct A. thaliana populations to withstand different climate pressures of increasing reduced abundance and increased stochasticity of precipitation.

This experiment was inspired by the legendary Carnegie common gardens by Clausen Keck and Hiesey (1941 Am Nat) in the same location on campus and the Global Change Experiments led by Chris Field at Jasper Ridge.