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September 1, 2010

Grant to Support Undergraduate Research

Harvard Forest has received a 3-year, $420,000 grant from NASA's Global Climate Change Education program to support our summer undergraduate research program. This award will provide opportunities for four students from Lincoln University (Missouri), the home institution of recent Bullard Fellow Nsalambi Nkongolo, and local 5th-grade teacher Katie Bennett to work on data-model fusion and forecasting of environmental change

September 1, 2010

Student Symposium and Video on Deep Forest History

33 Summer REU students presented findings from their research projects at a Symposium in the Fisher Museum. Several students had continued large-scale research projects that have been operating for many years at Harvard Forest. Others helped with experiments that were in their first year, but that are expected to continue long into the future. These students learned a lot about

September 1, 2010

Summer Archaeological Field School Unearths the Sanderson Tannery

Archaeologist at Harvard Forest

This summer, 9 students took part in a 5-week Archaeological Field School at Harvard Forest, led by UMass Field School program director Dianna Doucette. At the Sanderson Tannery site, known to have been active from 1792 to 1829, the students uncovered a trove of colonial artifacts and also a few Native American relics: among them, ceramic sherds (pearlware, stoneware, yelloware,

September 1, 2010

Climate Change and Hayfever Research Underway

A group with Burkhard traps

As part of an ongoing study investigating climate change effects on human health, a team led by David Foster and Kristina Stinson (Harvard Forest) and Christine Rogers (University of MA School of Public Health & Health Sciences) recently deployed a series of pollen capturing instruments, known as Burkard traps, to monitor ragweed pollen across Massachusetts. The ragweed pollen season, which

September 1, 2010

Plantation Harvest Field Tour

Plantation Harvest Field

Tuesday, September 14 from 4:00 – 6:00 p.m. Harvard Forest

Tour Leaders: Audrey Barker Plotkin (Harvard Forest) and Ed Faison (Highstead)
Meet at the Fisher Museum at Harvard Forest,

In 2001, the Harvard Forest began planning how to bring nearly a century of plantation research to a grand finale, and developed a management plan in which 80 of about 125 acres of

September 1, 2010

Harvard Forest Art Talk – Exploring Red Eft Colors

Eft salamander on fallen leaves

Tuesday, September 7, at 4:00pm, David Bryant, Harvard Forest artist in residence, will present an Art Talk and Gallery Presentation for the HF community in the Fisher Museum. The general public is also welcome. David is an illustration major at the Rhode Island School of Design and Senior Assistant at RISD's Edna Lawrence Nature Lab. Recently, he has worked as

August 1, 2010

Graduate Student Progress Documented

Atmospheric chemist Laura Meredith

Atmospheric chemist Laura Meredith, PhD Candidate at MIT Program in Oceans, Atmospheres and Climate, recently took a trip out to Harvard Forest to deploy a custom-built instrument that measures the flux of hydrogen from the forest to the atmosphere. The Actual Science website brought a camera along and posted this short documentary. Watch the video and learn more

August 1, 2010

Tribute to Professor P.B. Tomlinson

Professor P. Barry Tomlinson

A tribute to P. Barry Tomlinson, Professor Emeritus at Harvard Forest, will be given at the 2010 Botany Symposium in Providence, RI. In his 65 year and ongoing research career, Barry Tomlinson has expanded our understanding of tropical plants, particularly many of its iconic representatives in the monocots. He has worked in many research areas, including but not limited to:

August 1, 2010

Director Appointed to the Commission on Financing Forest Conservation

David Foster, Director of Harvard Forest, has been appointed by Governor Deval Patrick to a Special Study Commission on Financing Forest Conservation. The Commission, which will meet in the third and fourth quarters of 2010, will be composed of members from the public, non-profit and academic sectors, as well as from the Patrick administration and the Massachusetts State House. It

July 1, 2010

Landowner Decisions: Differences in the Northeast

The future of landscapes dominated by private ownership are largely a function of often independent decisions made by hundreds or thousands of individual private landowners. Most owners do not have plans for their land or avail themselves of professional advice, and instead make reactive decisions based on immediate need or circumstance. Since most owners do not receive professional advice, we

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