Education - Graduate & Post-doc

March 23, 2017

Learning from an Island: Harvard Students Explore Vineyard Ecosystems

Harvard Forest students in the Aquinnah dune.

A lucky group of Harvard students spent 5 days on Martha's Vineyard during Spring Break with HF Director David Foster, exploring the Island's history, culture, and ecosystems. Foster has been studying the Island for decades, and recently published a book and series of maps about the Island, around which the program was based.

The focus of the trip was to

February 19, 2016

Bullard Spotlight: Joshua Rapp on Sugar Maples in a Changing Climate

Bullard Fellow Joshua Rapp tapping maple trees at Harvard Forest

Our sugaring season began Feb. 1 this year, a full two weeks earlier than usual. Bullard Fellow Joshua Rapp taps Harvard Forest trees to inform several inter-related studies of sugar maple.

The first study, Rapp began in 2011, when he was a Harvard Forest postdoctoral

December 11, 2015

The Great Flight North

black-throated green warbler by Brooks Mathewson

Migratory songbirds, commonly seen in Harvard Forest woodlands in spring and summer, spend their winters thousands of miles south in Central and South America searching for food.

A recent article in Massachusetts Wildlife by Brooks Mathewson, a graduate of HF's Master’s in Forest Science program, chronicles the journey of one male Black-throated Green Warbler as he travels from his

October 28, 2015

Winter Break Week at Harvard Forest

Update: Applications for the 2016 program closed on Dec. 11, 2015.

Applications are now being accepted for the 2016 Harvard Forest Winter Break Week

February 20, 2015

2015 Harvard Forest Ecology Symposium

The 26th annual Harvard Forest Ecology Symposium will be held Tuesday, March 17th from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.

February 25, 2015

Highlights from the Harvard Forest Winter Break Week

This January, ten Harvard students spent a week exploring the Harvard Forest landscape, immersed in the study of real-world ecological and conservation questions. Our 5th annual Winter Break Week featured hands-on workshops and field trips led by ecologists, artists, writers, and - new this year -

December 3, 2014

Harvard Forest Winter Break Week

Update: Applications for the 2015 program are now closed.

Applications are now being accepted for the 2015 Harvard Forest Winter Break Week

October 30, 2014

Eastern Newt Dynamics at the Harvard Forest

As hemlock-dominated forests decline due to the invasive hemlock woolly adelgid (HWA), the abundance of red efts (the juvenile phase of the eastern newt) may also decline, reports a new study by Brooks Mathewson, a graduate of the Harvard Forest master's in forest science program.

Mathewson’s work - conducted across four seasons in all four major research

October 30, 2014

New Tool for Analyzing Ecosystem Networks

A new paper in Methods in Ecology and Evolution, co-authored by Harvard Forest post-doctoral fellow Matthew Lau and collaborators at UNC-Wilmington, introduces a new toolkit for ecosystem analysis of complex systems, including food webs and insect mutualisms. The freely available software package, called enaR, was designed to integrate with existing packages in the popular R software for

May 20, 2014

Graduate Students Honored with Research Awards

Five PhD students/candidates pursuing research at the Harvard Forest have recently received competitive awards and fellowships to support their work.

Ahmed Hassabelkreem Siddig (pictured at left) has earned a Student Dissertation Research Grant from the University of Massachusetts, to support his efforts to create a more informative measure of indicator species "effectiveness" for ecological monitoring and conservation in declining ecosystems.

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