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30 summer students have arrived as part of the Harvard Forest summer research program in ecology. Students come from all over the United States to participate in on-going research projects for eleven weeks. Under the guidance and supervision of researchers at the Forest, students will work on projects related to land-use history, phenology, plant physiology, invasive species, insect ecology,

On July 12, Dave Orwig will present at the Arnolod Arboretum (Boston, MA) information about tree decline resulting from a variety of stressors including native and exotic pests and pathogens. Conifer species will be highlighted, but ongoing hardwood tree problems will be included as well. Emphasis will be given to identification of the problem, the mode of tree decline, and

A paper recently published by Jerry Melillo of the Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences has been making news in the past few weeks. The paper describes the results of a 7-year soil warming study at Harvard Forest, which shows that trees growing in experimentally warmed soils sequester more carbon.

David Kittredge gave the invited keynote address in early April at an international symposium on recent advances in land owner extension, organized by the International Union of Forest Research Organizations, the Finnish Forest Research Institute (Metla), University of Helsinki , and Oulu University of Applied Sciences. The meeting was held in Kuusamo, Finland, and focused on peer-to-peer learning among land