Events


In addition to special events that occur throughout the year, Harvard Forest regularly hosts the following:



  • Public Seminar: Steve Langdon – Shingle Shanty: Research, Monitoring, and Climate Resilience in a Boreal Peatland Complex in the Adirondacks

    Harvard Forest - Main Building 324 Main St, Petersham, MA, United States

    Steve Langdon is Director of the Shingle Shanty Preserve and Research Station. Harvard Forest’s seminar series features cutting-edge research in ecology, land-use history, and climatic change, and its applications to conservation biology, environmental policy, forestry, and management of terrestrial, aquatic, and marine ecosystems. Seminars occur during the fall and spring on Wednesdays from 11:00 am to 12:00 pm Eastern […]

  • Evening Lecture: Bullard Fellow Research Showcase

    Harvard Forest - Fisher Museum 324 N. Main St, Petersham, MA, United States

    A "lightning round" of brief presentations by Harvard Forest's diverse range of visiting Bullard Fellowship scholars will include short presentations on local wildlife (coyotes and salamanders), climate signals found in tree rings, art-science collaborations, forest biodiversity, and more. A reception with refreshments will follow. Presenters are: Dr. Ivy Abiem Dr. Lisa Brooks Nancy Lowe Dr. […]

  • Public Seminar: Rebecca Snell – From Seeds to Stands: Modelling Regeneration Processes in Forest Ecosystems

    Harvard Forest - Main Building 324 Main St, Petersham, MA, United States

    Rebecca Snell is Associate Professor & Graduate Chair in Environmental and Plant Biology at the Ohio State University. Harvard Forest’s seminar series features cutting-edge research in ecology, land-use history, and climatic change, and its applications to conservation biology, environmental policy, forestry, and management of terrestrial, aquatic, and marine ecosystems. Seminars occur during the fall and spring on Wednesdays from 11:00 […]

  • Charles Bullard Lectures with Michelle Mack

    Dr. Michelle Mack is a Regents' Professor in the Department of Biological Sciences and the Center for Ecosystem Science and Society at Northern Arizona University, and the lead PI of the Bonanza Creek LTER (Long-Term Ecological Research Program) located in the Alaskan boreal forest.  She is an ecosystem ecologist who studies the impacts of climate and […]


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