A brand new Harvard course will be taught fully at the Harvard Forest in Fall 2026, adding a new on-site course option to the Harvard Forest Freshman Seminar, which has been taught here for the past 50 years.
OEB 110, “Forests, Carbon, and Climate: From Ecosystems to Policy”, will be open to Harvard upperclassmen and graduate students. The course is taught by Dr. Jonathan Thompson, Director of Harvard Forest and a landscape ecologist whose research focuses on long-term forest ecosystem change, land use, and climate policy. Dr. Thompson is the lead author of the Massachusetts Land Sector policy.
Harvard Forest Senior Scientists will contribute field instruction and guest lectures in their areas of expertise, including eddy covariance and tower-based flux measurement, long-term ecological research plots, and experimental global change research. Additional guest lecturers will include representatives from conservation organizations, state and federal agencies, land management professionals, and carbon credit firms.
Photo by Greta VanScoy
