Harvard Forest

This website is packed with information about Harvard Forest's research, education, events, data, and more. We've made some handy guides to explore the website from the perspectives of educators, students, field researchers, and land stewards/conservationists. Don't see your view? Let usknow at hfOutreach@fas.harvard.edu

Harvard Forest office buildings and the Fisher Museum are open to the public. We look forward to seeing you soon!

To help protect visitors and staff, face coverings are recommended for all visitors aged 2 and up. Please do not enter our facilities if you are unwell or experiencing any symptoms of COVID-19.

Fisher Museum hours: Weekdays year-round 9am–4pm; Weekends May to October 12-4pm

How might your local landscape change in 40 years?

An interactive map tool built by scientists in the Thompson Lab explores five possible futures for New England, viewable in high resolution at 10-year time steps. A companion story map outlines the kinds of questions the tool can answer, and builds context for the years of research and contributions by 100+ local stakeholders that led to the final product.

The rich trove of digital resources in the Harvard Forest Archive recently expanded via a partnership with Massachusetts Digital Commonwealth, which digitized 600+ local property maps, forest inventories, detailed maps of damage from the 1938 Hurricane, even winter range maps of local snowshoe hares! All the maps are free for download and use under a Creative Commons license.

Watch winter unfold at Harvard Forest using real-time graphs from our weather station, snow pillow, and stream guages.  Each graph shows measurements over the last 30 days and is updated every 15 minutes.

Applications are now open for our 2019 Summer Research Program, an opportunity for undergraduate students from colleges and universities around the U.S. to participate in 11 weeks (May 27-August 9, 2019) of paid, independent research with mentors from Harvard and other leading institutions. 

The Charles Bullard Fellowship program supports 6 to 12 months of advanced research and study by individuals who show promise of making an important contribution, either as scholars or administrators, to forest-related subjects including biology, earth sciences, conservation, economics, politics, humanities, the arts, or law. Applications for 2019-2020 are open through January 15, 2019.