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August 1, 2010

Graduate Student Progress Documented

Atmospheric chemist Laura Meredith

Atmospheric chemist Laura Meredith, PhD Candidate at MIT Program in Oceans, Atmospheres and Climate, recently took a trip out to Harvard Forest to deploy a custom-built instrument that measures the flux of hydrogen from the forest to the atmosphere. The Actual Science website brought a camera along and posted this short documentary. Watch the video and learn more

August 1, 2010

Tribute to Professor P.B. Tomlinson

Professor P. Barry Tomlinson

A tribute to P. Barry Tomlinson, Professor Emeritus at Harvard Forest, will be given at the 2010 Botany Symposium in Providence, RI. In his 65 year and ongoing research career, Barry Tomlinson has expanded our understanding of tropical plants, particularly many of its iconic representatives in the monocots. He has worked in many research areas, including but not limited to:

August 1, 2010

Director Appointed to the Commission on Financing Forest Conservation

David Foster, Director of Harvard Forest, has been appointed by Governor Deval Patrick to a Special Study Commission on Financing Forest Conservation. The Commission, which will meet in the third and fourth quarters of 2010, will be composed of members from the public, non-profit and academic sectors, as well as from the Patrick administration and the Massachusetts State House. It

July 1, 2010

Landowner Decisions: Differences in the Northeast

The future of landscapes dominated by private ownership are largely a function of often independent decisions made by hundreds or thousands of individual private landowners. Most owners do not have plans for their land or avail themselves of professional advice, and instead make reactive decisions based on immediate need or circumstance. Since most owners do not receive professional advice, we

July 1, 2010

Grad student news: grants will support Northeastern ant study

Israel Del Toro received two grants in June - $5000 from the National Geographic Society and $3500 from the Lewis and Clark Fund of the American Philosophical Society. Both awards will help Del Toro, along with REU student Adam Clark (Harvard '11) sample ants throughout northeastern North America this summer. Del Toro is a graduate student at the University of

July 1, 2010

Wildlands and Woodlands Regional Conference

The successful release of the Wildlands and Woodlands vision for New England culminated in a standing-room only crowd at the project's regional conference in Concord, NH, on June 4. The host of the event, the New England Forestry Foundation, registered 275 attendees—landowners, scientists, forest industry professionals, conservation organizations, land trusts, philanthropists, media representatives, and policymakers. The attendees came

July 1, 2010

Field Wireless Network

Web camera on Harvard Forest Field Wireless Network

The Harvard Forest Field Wireless Network (HFFW) became operational this spring with funding from the National Science Foundation and Harvard University. The HFFW provides high-speed Internet access to field sites across the 400-ha Prospect Hill Tract, enabling researchers and students to monitor and control their equipment over the network and to collect and process data in real time.

One such

July 1, 2010

Artist-in-Residence: Regan Golden-McNerny

Art by Regan Golden-McNerny

From July 10 to 20, artist Regan Golden-McNerny will be visually investigating what scientists know about the woods, studying both Harvard Forest and Minnechoag Mountain, a more suburban forest in Ludlow. She will draw and photograph, visit field sites with researchers, and comb the archives here at Harvard Forest - and present her drawings, notes, and photographs for students and

July 1, 2010

Harvard Forest Welcomes New Senior Ecologist

Elizabeth Crone

We are very pleased to announce that Elizabeth Crone, Associate Professor of Wildlife Biology at the University of Montana, will assume the new position of Senior Ecologist at the Harvard Forest this fall.

Elizabeth has a PhD in Botany and Genetics from Duke University and is a population ecologist with an emphasis on wildflowers, butterflies, and bees. Her research focuses on

June 1, 2010

Grad student news: dissertation defense

Congratulations to Sydne Record, who successfully defended her dissertation on May 18. Sydne will be staying on at Harvard Forest as a post-doctoral researcher, working on two aspects of vegetation response to climate change: the expansion and allergenicity of ragweed (with Kristina Stinson), and the future distribution of forest trees (with Aaron Ellison). 

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