On June 2, the EPA released the nation’s first-ever carbon pollution standards for existing power plants. In a new report by the Science Policy Exchange, scientists from Syracuse and Harvard analyze how and where that rule will improve local air quality, decrease atmospheric deposition, and benefit people and ecosystems across the U.S.

The authors of the study, including

Harvard Forest Senior Investigator Dave Kittredge, in partnership with the UMass Family Forest Research Center, recently completed a two-year study of the USDA Forest Service's national Forest Stewardship Program (FSP). The results are now available in the Journal of Forestry. 

Their results indicate that only a small fraction of the nation's private

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. 

Allyson Degrassi

As part of the Harvard Forest's commitment to connecting science, communication, and policy outreach, recently we have helped to launch the Science Policy Exchange, a collaborative of six world-class research institutions and four Long-Term Ecological Research (LTER) sites, all dedicated to increasing the influence of science on environmental policy, conservation, and natural resource management.

A new