The Charles Bullard Lectures Series

This annual distinguished lecture series focuses on forests and climate change, and is named after the gift that has, since 1962, brought scholars working on forests to Harvard. The goal of the Bullard Lectures is to celebrate and amplify ecologists who have significantly advanced our understanding of the terrestrial biosphere while also serving society through application of their science and mentoring.

The Lectures are supported by the Charles Bullard endowment and are closely associated with Harvard’s long-running Bullard Fellowship, a distinguished scholar-in-residence program for forest research. Hosted in partnership

More details and registration information will be posted to this page as they become available.

In October 2023, Dr. Chris Field, the Perry L. McCarty Director of the Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment and the Joan Lane Professor for Interdisciplinary Environmental Studies at Stanford University, presented two lectures regarding his research. Recordings are available for Managing the Risk of Climate Overshoot and The Changing Landscape of Western Wildfire Risk . Learn about his talk at Harvard Forest in the Harvard Crimson. 

Our inaugural Bullard Lecturer was Dr. Susan Trumbore, Director and Scientific Member at the Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry & Professor of Earth System Science at the University of California, Irvine. Dr. Trumbore presented two talks entitled What is the future of Amazon Forests? and Radiocarbon constraints for the terrestrial carbon cycle.