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July 1, 2009

New Harvard Forest Publications: American Beech Distribution and Disturbance Dynamics

Posy Busby with American Beech Tree

Fagus grandifolia (American Beech) is uncommon along the coast of southern New England, but occasionally forms unusual monodominant stands with higher beech abundance than is typical for inland areas. In this new publication, Posy Busby (former HF MFS student) and HF collaborators document the distribution of beech on Cape Cod and nearby coastal islands, and evaluate environmental and historical factors

July 1, 2009

Earth Day Lecture at Harvard Center for the Environment

Harvard Forest Senior Ecologist Aaron Ellison gave the Earth Day lecture at the Harvard University Center for the Environment in their Biodiversity, Ecology, and Global Change Lecture Series on the topic of "Assembling and restoring ecosystems in a rapidly changing world."

July 1, 2009

Harvard Forest Schoolyard Teachers Honored

Two Harvard Forest Schoolyard Ecology Teachers received Awards for Excellence in Energy and Environmental Education from The Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs (EOEA). Secretary Ian Bowles presented the awards to Lisa Shluger of the Fuller Middle School in Framingham and Tiffany Davis of the J.R. Briggs Elementary School in Ashburnham in the Great Hall at the Massachusetts State

July 1, 2009

Director, David Foster, Appointed to Massachusetts Climate Change Committee

David R. Foster was appointed by Energy and Environmental Affairs (EEA) Secretary Ian Bowles to the newly formed Climate Change Adaptation Advisory Committe. The Committee will advise the Commonwealth on strategies for adapting to sea level rise, warming temperatures, increased incidence of flood and drought and other predicted effects of climate change. Members are experts from business, academia, and nonprofit

July 1, 2009

Ragweed and Future Climate Change: Putting the Where and When on Wheezing

Harvard Forest ecologists Kristina Stinson and David Foster, in collaboration with Dr. Chris Rogers from the University of Massachusetts School of Public Health, have been awarded $1M from the US Environmental Protection Agency to study the effect of global change on ragweed and human health. The researchers' primary objective will be to determine

June 1, 2009

New Harvard Forest Publication: Abundance of Salamanders At Harvard Forest

Brooks Mathewson (Masters of Forest Science, 2006) published his work on study of salamanders as affected by the anticipated loss of Eastern Hemlock dominated forests due to infestation by Hemlock Woolly Adelgid. This study assessed the relative abundance of the ecologically important terrestrial salamander, Plethodon cinereus Green (Eastern Red-backed Salamander), in five Eastern Hemlock-dominated stands and four mixed deciduous stands

June 1, 2009

New Harvard Forest Publication: Carnivorous Plant Methods of Attracting Prey

Ant in pitcher plant

Katie Bennett, a fifth-grade teacher at Ashburnham's J.R.Briggs Elementary School, a long-time participant in the Harvard Forest Schoolyard LTER Program and an NSF Research Experience for Teachers (RET) collaborator on ant and pitcher-plant research, has published her first paper in Biology Letters, the rapid communication journal of the Royal Society of London. In this paper, Katie, along with

June 1, 2009

Harvard Forest on the Radio

May 14, 2009 - Diane Rehm show on NPR and WAMU talks about the health of the United States forests, trends in forest managment and protection of wilderness areas. Dr. David Foster, Director of Harvard Forest, was on the panel of this show. Listen to the show. 

June 1, 2009

Grant Received for Harvard Forest Book: Twentieth-Century New England Land Conservation

The Cabot-Wellington Foundation has made a generous grant in memory of Tom Cabot (1897-1995), a lifelong conservationist and CEO of the Cabot Corporation, which allows Harvard Forest (the publisher) to distribute 100 copies free of charge to public libraries in each New England state. Distribution has already been completed in RI, MA, and NH; the remaining states will see their

June 1, 2009

Ecological Society of America Cooper Award Received

Harvard Forest Flora Cover

The 2009 Cooper Award from the Ecological Society of America was received for the paper: Jenkins, Jerry, Motzkin, Glenn, and Ward, Kirsten. 2008. The Harvard Forest Flora: An Inventory, Analysis, and Ecological History (note: this download is very large). Harvard Forest, Harvard University, Petersham, Massachusetts. Harvard Forest Paper No. 28. The William Skinner Cooper Award is given to honor

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