Events


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



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 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 […]

Harvard University Community Bus Trip

Harvard Forest (Bus departs from Harvard Square)

*Note: Trip is waitlisted* Harvard students, faculty, fellows, and staff are welcome to sign up for a free Community Bus Trip to Harvard Forest on April 19. The 4 hours […]


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