A news feature published in Harvard’s FAS Current this month explored the impact of 30+ years of the Harvard Forest Summer Research Program in ecology, highlighted the goals of program leaders, and spotlit the experiences of 3 summer interns.
This year’s cohort of 20 undergraduates included three Harvard College students as well as students from many other schools–Brandeis, Bowdoin, Mount Wachusett Community College, three campuses of the University of Massachusetts, Cornell, Western Michigan University, and the University of Puerto Rico at Cayey.
Their projects examined topics such as the effects of soil warming on salamander body sizes, the performance of sap flow sensors, the ecology of forest edges, and the root systems of black tupelo trees in swamps.
