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October 30, 2024

Immersive Global Change Ecology Course Expands Experience of First-Years

Image shows the 2024 First-Year Seminar students at the Swift River in Petersham.

Dave Orwig, Senior Forest Ecologist at Harvard Forest, isn't your typical Harvard instructor. A leading researcher examining - firsthand - a variety of disturbances to forests across the northeast, Orwig is acutely aware of these threats, affecting individual tree species, complex vegetative communities, and the web of organisms that rely upon them. Summers spent conducting research at remote, threatened old

October 29, 2024

Schoolyard Ecology Winter Data Workshop Registration Now Open!

Image shows student work created as part of the Schoolyard Ecology Data Jam

Each year, Harvard Forest's Schoolyard Ecology Program hosts a Winter Data Workshop to provide support to instructors participating in the program. This year, two workshop options will be offered! Because of winter weather and the large number of Eastern Massachusetts teachers, a second data workshop will be held in Cambridge at Harvard's Natural History Museum.


Option 1: Full Data

October 23, 2024

Research Spotlight: Leaf Phenology in New England

Image shows a close-up image of a leaf, with cellular-level coloration of greens, reds, and oranges. By John O'Keefe.

Decades-long research by Harvard Forest ecologist John O'Keefe has shown that climate change is altering the timing of New England's fall foliage. For over 30 years, O'Keefe has meticulously tracked the development of leaves, recording when they leaf-out in the spring and when their leaves change color each autumn. This phenological data - still being collected as we speak -

October 10, 2024

Wintersession Internships for Harvard Students Available

6 students and mentors smile in the forest in winter

NOVEMBER 2024 UPDATE: Applications are now closed.

Harvard Forest Wintersession Internships bring Harvard students (undergraduate and/or graduate) to the Forest in January 2025 for paid, on-site research internships. Interns will work directly with mentors on projects related to Indigenous representation, forest ecology, environmental education, and more (described below). In addition to a paid stipend, room, board, and transportation will be provided