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Harvard Forest's Schoolyard LTER Program, which currently trains teachers from over 50 schools to conduct ecological research in their schoolyards, has added a new professional development workshop for teacher participants. In the Data Level III workshop to be held in January, teachers will work one-on-one with Harvard Forest ecologists to explore advanced graphing techniques for their students' Schoolyard data. The

Kate Eisen, Summer Program for Ecology participant, presented a talk at the 2012 Society of American Foresters National Convention in Honolulu, Hawaii. The talk, "Long-Term Measurements Support Continuation of Northeastern Carbon Sink," was developed from her Summer 2011 research at the Harvard Forest. She worked with Collette Yee and mentor Audrey Barker Plotkin to complete the fifth census of

The researchers working in Senior Ecologist Elizabeth Crone's lab are engaged in a diversity of projects ranging from butterfly population dynamics to sugar maple seed production. Rui Zhang, a post-doctoral fellow who arrived in October, is collaborating with Finnish researcher Anne Jäkäläniemi to investigate how habitat transitions affect populations of Silene tartarica, an endangered riparian plant native to Finland. Post-doc

2009 Harvard Forest Summer Research Program student Jenna Turner has co-authored a paper using her summer project data. Using fluorescent powder, she and mentor Matt Fitzpatrick simulated the dispersal of an invasive insect (the hemlock woolly adelgid) in a hemlock forest understory. The clumps of powder, which are larger than the insect but easier to detect in the forest understory, generally