Harvard Forest Winter/Spring 2008 Seminar Series

Seminars are Fridays at 11:00 a.m. unless otherwise noted, and are free and open to the public. No pre-registration is required. They are held in the Seminar Room at Shaler Hall (Directions to Harvard Forest). For more information, contact Audrey Barker Plotkin ( 978-724-3302 x268, aabarker@fas.harvard.edu).

January 25
Serita Frey – University of New Hampshire
Microbial community and organic matter dynamics in response to soil warming and nitrogen fertilization

February 1
Bill Sobczak – College of the Holy Cross
Coupling aquatic and terrestrial biogeochemistry: stream and wetland carbon losses from Harvard Forest's Prospect Hill Tract

February 15 .
Steven Wofsy – Harvard University, Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences
Understanding the sources and atmospheric trends in CO2 and other greenhouse gases

February 29
Osvaldo Sala – Brown University
Spatial and temporal controls of carbon cycling in arid and semiarid ecosystems

March 7
Todd Crowl - Utah State University and Harvard Bullard Fellow
The complexity of river-road networks and human behavior

March 14
Kathleen Donohue – Department of Organismic & Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University
Seeds and seasons: the ecological genetics of germination in a familiar weed

March 21 (Rescheduled from February 22)
Leon Osterweil – University of Massachusetts, Department of Computer Sciences
Using analytic webs to guide the processing of scientific datasets and document their provenance

March 28
William McDowell – Department of Natural Resources, University of New Hampshire
Biogeochemistry of suburban (NH) basins

April 4
Eric Davidson - Woods Hole Research Center
Thirteen years of soil respiration measurements at the Harvard Forest: What have we learned about the carbon cycle?

April 11
Morgan Grove - USDA Forest Service
From pixels to parcels

April 18
Erik Hobbie - Complex Systems Research Center, University of New Hampshire
Cooperation and competition belowground among plants, mycorrhizal fungi, and other microbes: an ecosystem view

April 25
Andrew Altieri – Brown University
Agents of environmental change: ecological interactions along stress gradients

May 2
Tom Kunz – Boston University
Aeroecology: probing and modeling the Aerosphere

May 9
Alan Covich – University of Georgia
Ecosystem services in tropical streams: the uncertain role of biodiversity

May 16 - Please note change in speaker
Mike Kaspari – University of Oklahoma and Harvard Bullard Fellow
You eat what you are: linking biogeochemistry and  biogeography