Seminars at Harvard Forest
Seminars are Fridays at 11:00 a.m., unless otherwise noted. They are held in the Harvard Forest Seminar Room. Seminars are free and open to the public; no pre-registration is required. For more information, contact Audrey Barker Plotkin (aabarker(at)fas.harvard.edu).
September 11
Bullard Fellow Debabrata Swain and Paul J. Morris of OEB
Occupancy estimation and modeling in monitoring tigers and co-predators with implications for conservation and management: A case study in Similipal Tiger Reserve, India.
September 25
Gordon Sato – The Manzanar Mangrove Initiative
Discovering how to grow seawater plants
October 1
Lesley-Ann Dupigny-Giroux, State Climatologist, University of Vermont
YES, THIS IS ON A THURSDAY
Climate history of New England: special reference to Vermont and New Hampshire
October 9
Nsalambi Nkongolo, Bullard Fellow & Lincoln University
Soil properties and vegetation studies in Ituri Forest, Democratic Republic of Congo
October 23
Charles Canham – Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies
Neighborhood dynamics of forest ecosystems: Invasion of northeastern forests by Norway maple (Acer platanoides) and Tree of Heaven (Ailanthus altissima)
October 30
Stephen Porder: Brown University
As time goes by: understanding soil age in eroding landscapes
November 4
Kamaruzaman Jusoff: Faculty of Forestry, University Putra Malaysia
Airborne Hyperspectral Sensing for Individual Species Mapping in the Tropical Mixed Hill Dipterocarp Forest
November 6
Bill Keeton: University of Vermont
Biomass development in late-successional northern hardwoods and evaluation of forest carbon management alternatives
November 13
Philip Camill: Bowdoin College
Boreal and sub-Arctic peatlands: Vegetation-fire-climate interactions play a major role in landscape biogeochemical change
November 20
Christopher Williams: Clark University
Carbon consequences of forest disturbances across North America
December 4
William Schuster: Executive Director, Black Rock Forest
Ecological studies of the loss of the genus Quercus in the Black Rock Forest, southeastern New York
December 11
Robert Hellstrom: Bridgewater State College
Recent snowpack measurements at Harvard Forest and ecological implications