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February 1, 2007

Harvard Forest Announces New Research Course

In response to a University-wide call to expand small group, experiential study in the sciences, the Harvard Forest will launch a new Student on snowshoescourse and expand its summer research opportunities for Harvard Undergraduates this Spring. The new course, OEB 122 - Field Research in Ecology and Conservation, features

February 1, 2007

Harvard Forest in the Media

WBUR Radio recently visited Petersham and interviewed two Harvard Forest scientists to discus the infestation of hemlock trees by the Hemlock Wooly Adelgid Lateral Portraitinsect called hemlock woolly adelgid.

The Harvard University Alumni Quarterly Colloquy highlights Harvard Forest as a living laboratory. Read the article. 

February 1, 2007

New Harvard Forest Publication

Climate Change affected major forest ecosystems dynamics

The mid-Holocene decline of eastern hemlock is widely viewed as the sole prehistorical example of an insect- or pathogen-mediated collapse of a North American tree species and has been extensively studied for insights into pest–host dynamics and the consequences to terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems of dominant-species removal. We report paleoecological evidence implicating climate as