Events

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

Events

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  • Honoring Nipmuc Sovereignty

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

    Join us for a panel discussion that is part of Harvard University's second annual Climate Action Week. We'll hear from Kristen Wyman, Nipmuc Educator & Activist, Keely Curliss, Nipmuc Farmer […]

  • Bullard Lecture (Cambridge): Yadvinder Mahli

    Harvard University - Cambridge

    Join us in Cambridge for a lecture by the esteemed Dr. Yadvinder Mahli as he presents Tropical Forests and Planet Earth: A Macroscope View.  Registration for this event is now closed.

  • Public Event: Bullard Lecture: Yadvinder Mahli

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

    Join us in Harvard Forest's Fisher Museum or online for Captured Sunshine: An Energetic View of Terrestrial Ecosystems, a lecture by esteemed professor Dr. Yadvinder Mahli (University of Oxford). Registration for […]

  • Public Seminar: The PLACE Lab with Jessica Gersony

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

    ????For this seminar, Jessica Gersony will present “The PLACE Lab: Centering community building, art, and justice in the field of plant physiology” in-person at Harvard Forest and on Zoom. ????

  • Public Event: Tree Rings at Harvard Forest

    Join us for a free public event and meet our Tree Ring Lab crew! ???? Together we will do a tree coring demonstration, tour Harvard Forest’s Tree Ring Lab, and […]

  • Public Seminar: Rooted in Truths

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

    Join us for this in-person event, led by Andre StrongBearHeart Gaines, Jr. (Nipmuc). Gaines will present Rooted in Truths: Restoring Balance Between Everyday Life & Traditional Values within Colonial Systems. RSVP not […]

  • Public Seminar: From Metal Mining to Data Mining: Indigenous Data Governance

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

    Join us for a hybrid seminar from Lydia Jennings, PhD (Pascua Yaqui Tribe, Wixárika), for her talk: “From Metal Mining to Data Mining: How Indigenous Data Governance Supports Indigenous Sovereignty […]

  • Public Event: Annual Ecology Symposium

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

    Harvard Forest's 2025 Ecology Symposium, "Future Directions of Research and Education at the Harvard Forest," will feature speakers from Harvard Forest, Harvard University's Division of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, UMass […]

  • Public Seminar: Vidya Viruputoor

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

    Join us for a hybrid seminar by Vidya Viruputoor, Multi-omics approach to terpenoid defenses in the Eastern Hemlock, threatened by the Hemlock Woolly Adelgid.  A PhD candidate at UConn, Vidya […]

  • Public Seminar: Morgan Furze

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

    Join the Harvard Forest community for a seminar by guest speaker Morgan Furze for her talk, "Physiology, ecology, and evolution of carbohydrate storage in trees." Morgan is Assistant Professor in the […]

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