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March 1, 2011

Director of Administration Earns Harvard Dean’s Distinction

Edythe Ellin has earned a Dean's Award of Distinction from the Harvard University Faculty of Arts of Sciences (FAS)--a prestigious honor, via nomination, that recognizes the top one percent of FAS employees for their exceptional contributions to the university. According to Dean Michael Smith, these awardees are vital to "Harvard's faculty and students reaching the heights they aim for." Edythe

February 1, 2011

New Harvard Forest Publications: Methods and Models of Species Change and Spread

New methods in detecting species change

Data on insect population sizes collected at the Kellogg Biological Station (KBS) LTER were used in a new paper by a group including HF senior ecologist Aaron Ellison focused on new methods to detect changes in species assemblages through time. The methods, including hierarchical models and bootstrapping, provide ways to detect temporal trends in the

February 1, 2011

22nd Annual Harvard Forest Ecology Symposium

Simes plot

The 22nd annual Harvard Forest Ecology Symposium will be held March 15, 2011 from 9:00am - 5:00pm at the Harvard Forest. This year's symposium will feature talks and discussion focusing on the twenty years of long-term ecological research: synthesis and future directions.

February 1, 2011

New Grants Spur Research on Future Scenarios of Forest Change

The Harvard Forest received three grants totaling $150,000 from the LTER Program, the Jessie B. Cox Charitable Trust and Highstead to support a new research project on Future Scenarios of Landscape Change. The project brings together scientists and stakeholders to develop narrative scenarios for how climate and land use change will shape forests over the next century in four focal

January 1, 2011

Charles Bullard Fellowships in Forestry

We are now accepting applications for 6-12 months fellowships for advanced research and study by persons who show promise of making an important contribution, either as scholars or administrators, to forestry defined in its broadest sense as the human use of forested environments. Deadline: Feb. 1, 2011. Learn more. 

January 1, 2011

Harvard Forest Summer Program in Ecology for Undergraduates

REU 2009 students

We are now accepting applications for the 2011 Summer Program from undergraduates and recent graduates who are interested in an intensive research and education experience in ecology. Deadline: Feb. 4, 2011. Learn more. 

December 1, 2010

Renewable Energy at Harvard Forest

The Harvard Forest has recently received a grant from the Massachusetts Clean Energy Center to undergo a feasibility study over the next 12 to 18 months that will consider the potential for one wind turbine on four possible sites. The study will evaluate environmental impacts and wind availability using Sonic Detection and Ranging (SODAR) equipment, which employs sound waves to

December 1, 2010

January Term Undergraduate Class Offered at Harvard Forest

This winter, a new January Term course will be offered at Harvard Forest: Reading the New England Landscape: Conservation and human impacts on the past, present, and future. This highly interdisciplinary and hands-on course will explore modern-day connections between humans and the natural environment through the lens of long-term landscape change. Inquiry will focus on the historical and archival records

November 1, 2010

New Harvard Forest Publication: Ecological Change During the Holocene on Long Island

A sediment record from Wildwood Lake, Long Island, New York provides insight into past environmental and ecological changes in the northeastern US. Analyses of pollen, charcoal, and organic content reveal the history of climatic variations, fire, and pitch pine-scrub oak woodlands over the last 10,000 years.

Oswald, W.W., D.R. Foster, E. D. Doughty and D. MacDonald. 2010. A record

November 1, 2010

LTER graduate students gather at Harvard Forest

Seven graduate students representing the three LTER sites

On Saturday, October 9, seven graduate students representing the three LTER sites in New England (Harvard Forest, Hubbard Brook, and Plum Island Ecosystems) gathered at the Forest to share their research and tour field sites. 

The summit is scheduled occur each fall, rotating locations between the three sites. All graduate students and post-docs involved in research at a New England LTER

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