Current Funding
The Forest has received significant support from the following sources towards our research and education mission:
Harvard University
Long Term Ecological Research Network
Massachusetts Environmental Trust
A.W. Mellon Foundation
National Science Foundation
United States Department of Agriculture Forest Service
The Nature Conservancy
Specific grants that support research and education programs at Harvard Forest include:
National Science Foundation: Division of Environment Biology
Grant# DEB-0620443
LTER-IV: Integrated studies of the drivers, dynamics, and consequences of landscape change in New England
$4,920,000 Start: 10/1/2006 - End: 9/30/2012
Department of Energy
Grant #: DE-FG02-07ER64358
Impacts of elevated temperature on ant species, communities and ecological roles at two temperate forests in eastern North America.
$1,158,556 Start: 1/1/2008 - End: 12/31/2011
National Science Foundation
Grant # DBI-0452254
REU SITE: Harvard Forest Program in Forest Ecology: Multi-Scale Investigations of a Forested Ecosystem in a Changing World
$732,042 Start: 3/01/2005 - End: 2/28/2010
National Science Foundation
Grant # DEB-0541680
Collaborative Research: Moths, Ants, and Carnivorous Plants: the Spatial Dimension of Species Interactions
$585,000 Start: 4-01-2006 - End: 3-31-2011
Massachusetts Division of Fisheries & Wildlife
Grant # 5244114-01
Wildlife Habitat Enhancement at the Harvard Forest: Early Successional Habitat Creation & Invasive Plant Control
$37,405.00 Start: 7/01/2007 - End: 6/30/2008
Department of Energy (NICCR)
Effects of forest age, soil drainage and interannual climate variation on deciduous forest carbon exchange: A comparison to long-term Harvard Forest measurements, in a contrasting forest type
$97,000 Start: 9/15/2006 - End: 9/14/2007
A. W. Mellon Foundation : W. Robertson
Grant #: 20200747
Harvard University Program for Training and Research III
$500,000 Start: 7/1/2002 - End: 6/30/2007
National Science Foundation: Division Biological Infrastructure
Grant #: 6258504
Nutrient Analysis Equipment for Community, Ecosystem, Hydrological and Physiological Research at Harvard Forest
$59,640 Start: 4/1/2004 End: 3/31/2007
National Science Foundation : Division of Environmental Biology
Grant #: DEB-0080593
LTER III : Harvard Forest Long Term Ecological Research Program; Forest Ecosystem Dynamics in Central New England
$4,662,856 Start: 10/15/2000 - End: 9/30/2007
Arizona State University : UAZ subcontract
Grant #: ASU 03-064
Agrarian landscapes in transition: a cross-scale approach
$228,672.00 Start: 8/15/2002 - End: 7/31/2006
National Science Foundation : Division of Environmental Biology
Grant #: DEB-0235128
Collaborative Research: Effects of Nutrient Stress on a Co-evolved Food Web
$348,370 Start: 4/1/2003 - End: 3/31/2006
National Science Foundation : Division of Environmental Biology
Grant #: DEB-0236897
Forest Response to the Decline of a Dominant Species: Ecosystem to Regional Analyses of the Impact of the Hemlock Woolly Adelgid on Northeastern Forests
$406,000 Start: 3/1/2003 - End: 2/28/2006
U. S. Department of Agriculture: Forestry Innovation Grant
Grant #: 04-DG-1124425-181
Twenty Years of Forest Harvesting across Massachusetts: Influences on Stand Composition and Invasive Plant Species
$50,100 Start:3/1/2004 End: 12/31/2005
National Science Foundation : Division Biological Infrastructure
Grant #: DBI-0330605
FSML: Infrastructure for Whole-Plant Biology and Experimental Plant Ecology at the Harvard Forest
$132,128 Start: 12/15/2003 - End: 11/30/2006
A. W. Mellon Foundation :
Grant #: 19700684
Minority research program at the Harvard forest
$70,000 Start: 3/1/1997 - End: 9/30/2005
University of Massachusetts at Amherst : ITR/AP: The Analytical Web
Grant #: 03-001756 A 00-01
Automatic Generation of High Resolution, Geo-registered 3D terrain models for ecosystem research
$300,000 Start: 9/1/2002 - End: 8/31/2005
The Nature Conservancy :
Incorporation of Spatially Explicit Forest Harvesting Pattern Into Conservation Planning for Matrix Forests, Biodiversity, and Invasive Plants in the Eastern U.S.
$100,000 Start: 9/1/2003 - End: 8/30/2005
National Park Foundation : Cape Cod National Seashore
Disturbance Histories As a Predictor of Habitat, Invasibility in a Mosaic Landscape: Cape Cod National Seashore
$150,000 Start: 8/1/2002 - End: 7/31/2005
National Science Foundation : Division Biological Infrastructure-FSML
Grant #: DBI-0200868
A mobile canopy access platform for environmental and physiological research at Harvard Forest
$55,860 Start: 7/1/2002 - End: 6/30/2005
National Science Foundation : Division Biological Infrastructure
Grant #: DBI-0139496
Harvard Forest REU Research Program in Forest Ecology
$237,918 Start: 5/1/2002 - End: 4/30/2005
National Science Foundation : Division of Environmental Biology
Grant #: DEB-0301361
SGER:RUI: Collaborative: Mechanisms of Community Re-Assembly After A Catastrophic Fire
$8,000 Start: 1/1/2003 - End: 12/31/2004
Regents of the University of California - Davis : National Institute for Global Environmental Change
Grant #: 011213-HU
Effects of forest age, soil drainage and interannual climate, etc.
$52,527 Start: 9/1/2003 - End: 8/31/2004
Regents of the University of California - Davis :National Institute for Global Environmental Change
Grant #: 901214-HAR
Evaluating effects of diverse vegetation types and soil drainage classes on net carbon exchange of a landscape mosaic with mobile and fixed eddy covariance systems
$405,500 Start: 7/1/2000 - End: 6/30/2004
National Park Service : CACO
Grant #: H1730-02-0007
Establishing a Long-Term Monitoring Protocol for Freshwater Macro invertebrates at Cape Cod National Seashore
$54,735 Start: 9/30/2002 - End: 6/30/2004
A. W. Mellon Foundation : W. Robertson
Grant #: 19900622
A temporal framework for interpreting temperate and tropical forest ecosystem structure and function
$624,000 Start: 6/1/1999 - End: 5/31/2004
Department of Agriculture : Coop Lands
Grant #: 01-DG-11244225-037
Response to Introduced Hemlock Wooly Adelgid: Development of Silvicultural Guidelines
$35,000 Start: 5/1/2001 - End: 4/30/2004
Harvard University : Harvard University Center for the Environment
Ecological and environmental impacts of the extinction of core species
$46,000 Start: 12/1/2002 - End: 11/30/2003
