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December 1, 2011

Science & Policy: from Quandry to Innovation

On November 1-2, 2011 ecosystem scientists from four northeastern LTER sites met at the Harvard Forest for a workshop with policy and media experts to explore new approaches for expanding the impact of science in environmental decision making. Under the leadership of representatives from Harvard Forest, Hubbard Brook, Cary Institute, The Ecosystems Center/MBL, Syracuse University and the University of New Hampshire,

December 1, 2011

REU Student Presents Carbon Work at National Meeting

REU student Kate Eisen with tree

Kate Eisen, Summer Program for Ecology participant, presented a talk at the 2012 Society of American Foresters National Convention in Honolulu, Hawaii. The talk, "Long-Term Measurements Support Continuation of Northeastern Carbon Sink," was developed from her Summer 2011 research at the Harvard Forest. She worked with Collette Yee and mentor Audrey Barker Plotkin to complete the fifth census of

December 1, 2011

New Air Pollution Impacts Report

Harvard Forest Science & Policy Integration Project Director, Kathy Fallon Lambert, partnered with the Ecological Society of America to Issues in Ecology Coverco-author a new Issues in Ecology report, "Setting Limits: Using Air Pollution Thresholds to Protect and Restore U.S. Ecosystems" (available free as a PDF). The report provides an overview

December 1, 2011

Spotlight: Crone Lab

Butterfly

The researchers working in Senior Ecologist Elizabeth Crone's lab are engaged in a diversity of projects ranging from butterfly population dynamics to sugar maple seed production. Rui Zhang, a post-doctoral fellow who arrived in October, is collaborating with Finnish researcher Anne Jäkäläniemi to investigate how habitat transitions affect populations of Silene tartarica, an endangered riparian plant native to Finland. Post-doc

December 1, 2011

Summer and Winter Programs for Undergraduates

2011 REU Students

We are now accepting applications for our Summer Research Program, an intensive research and education experience in ecology that runs from May 21 to Aug. 3, 2012. Undergraduates and recent graduates from any college or university are welcome to apply. Application deadline: Feb. 3, 2012. Learn more.

Harvard undergraduates are also encouraged to apply for the 2012 Harvard Forest Winter

December 15, 2012

Summer Student Publishes Invasive Species Research

Jenna Turner and her mentor Matt Fitzpatrick

2009 Harvard Forest Summer Research Program student Jenna Turner has co-authored a paper using her summer project data. Using fluorescent powder, she and mentor Matt Fitzpatrick simulated the dispersal of an invasive insect (the hemlock woolly adelgid) in a hemlock forest understory. The clumps of powder, which are larger than the insect but easier to detect in the forest understory, generally

November 1, 2011

3,000 Years of Ecosystem Change

Researchers analyze pollen and spores in lake-sediment core

A new paper published in Quaternary Research by Emerson College professor Wyatt Oswald and Harvard Forest director David Foster describes changes in climate and ecosystems in southern New England over the last 3,000 years. The researchers analyzed pollen and spores in a lake-sediment core from Little Pond in the town of Bolton, Massachusetts, and found evidence for three periods of

November 1, 2011

New Website for Conservation Innovation

The Harvard Forest Program on Conservation Innovation, directed by Jim Levitt, recently updated its website. In addition to publications and announcements, the new site hosts an extensive archive of the program's quarterly internet broadcasts on conservation finance.

November 1, 2011

Expanding Research on the Impacts of Deer and Moose

Using horses for scientific research at Simes

Four new pairs of deer and moose fence exclosures have been constructed in mature oak and hemlock stands at the Forest. These new undisturbed sites complement existing exclosures built in recently logged stands at Harvard Forest, on DCR Watershed Land, and in Northern CT. The study, led by Highstead ecologist Ed Faison and Steve DeStefano of the Mass. Cooperative Fish

November 1, 2011

Schoolyard Webcam Part of National Phenology Study

Schoolyard webcam

This year, a collaboration between Harvard faculty member Andrew Richardson and long-time HF Schoolyard Ecology Program teachers Kate Bennett and JoAnn Mossman led to the extension of a national effort to track forest phenology over time. Students at the Overlook Middle School in Ashburnham, Massachusetts, can now track seasonal budburst and leaf color change on a

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