Summer Reseach Program Alum Publishes Paper with Former HF Mentors

Alex Ireland, a 2006 and 2007 alumnus of the Harvard Forest Summer Research Program, recently published a paper with former Harvard Forest mentors Wyatt Oswald and David Foster. Alex is now a PhD candidate in Earth and Environmental Sciences at Lehigh University. The study is an unusual blend of historical research and paleoecology and it sheds light into the history of the landscape around the French Homestead and Tavern that adjoin the Harvard Forest.

Ireland, A.W, W.W. Oswald and D.R. Foster. 2011. An integrated reconstruction of recent forest dynamics in a New England cultural landscape. Vegetation History Archaeobotany. 8 pgs. published on-line March 2011.