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The Cabot-Wellington Foundation has made a generous grant in memory of Tom Cabot (1897-1995), a lifelong conservationist and CEO of the Cabot Corporation, which allows Harvard Forest (the publisher) to distribute 100 copies free of charge to public libraries in each New England state. Distribution has already been completed in RI, MA, and NH; the remaining states will see their

Twenty-four summer students have arrived as part of the Harvard Forest summer research program in ecology. Students come from all over the United States to participate in on-going research projects investigating atmospheric pollution, global warming, invasive plants, watershed ecology, and insect outbreaks. Researchers come from many disciplines and institutions. Specific projects center on population and community ecology, plant physiology, insect

Long-time friends and collaborators Elizabeth Farnsworth (Bullard Fellow 2004-2005), Aaron Ellison (Harvard Forest Senior Ecologist), and Nick Gotelli (University of Vermont Professor of Biology) achieved their long-time goal of publishing a paper in Nature. Like the regular articles and letters published in Nature, their story about EvoSoap is science-fiction. But unlike the regular articles and letters, it's not masquerading as

In the April issue of Mass Audubon's magazine Connections, Chris Leahy describes the partnership between MassAudubon and the Harvard Forest's Ants of Massachusetts project. Begun in 2007 by Senior Ecologist Aaron Ellison, Harvard's Museum of Comparative Zoology ant systematists Stefan Cover and Gary Alpert, and University of Vermont Biologist Nick Gotelli, the Ants of Massachusetts project is working to develop