Events

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

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  • 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 this event is now closed. 

  • 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 learn about related research. By analyzing tree rings of old growth trees, we can better understand past events that impacted our forests. This information helps […]

  • 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 required.

  • 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 Within an Open Science Ecosystem.” Lydia is Assistant Professor and E.E. Just Early Career Faculty Fellow in the Dept of Environmental Studies at Dartmouth College.

  • 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 Amherst, Boston University, and more. The event will include research and education tours led by Harvard Forest's education and outreach staff, as well as a […]

  • 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 will discuss the interdisciplinary study of Eastern Hemlocks to help us understand their defenses against Hemlock Woolly Adelgid, a rampant host-specific pest in our region.

  • 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 Department of Botany and Plant Pathology and the Department of Forestry and Natural Resources at Purdue University. This event is in-person only; seminar will occur […]

  • 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 spent on site will be guided by educators and scientists at the Forest, including: an overview of Harvard Forest's interdisciplinary research and education programs a […]

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