Harvard Forest at 2009 All Scientists Meeting

Harvard Forest was well represented at the 2009 All Scientists Meeting, held at the YMCA of the Rockies in Estes Park, Colorado from September 13 to the 17th. Highlights of HF participation included:

Working Group Presentations:

• David Foster and Jonathan Thompson led at the Scenarios of Future Landscape Change working group.
• David Foster and former HF Bullard, Jill Thompson presented at the Large Forest Dynamics Plot workshop.
• Emery Boose and Pamela Snow shared the HF data management system at the Approaches to Information Management for Schoolyard LTER data working group.
• Shannon Pellini co-led an Invertebrate impacts on ecosystem services under climate change workshop with Chelse Prather (U Notre Dame) and Angela Laws (Kansas State University).

Graduate Student Posters:

• Alix Contosta: Seasonal Variation in Microbial Community Composition and Function in Chronically Warmed and Fertilized Soils 
• Sydne Record: Soil Warming and Nitrogen Deposition in a Northeastern Forest 
• Eddie Brzostek: The role of tree species and mycorrhizal fungi on seasonal patterns of amino acid cycling in temperate forest soils 
• Minda Berbeco: The effect of soil warming on the decomposition of woody debris 

HF Staff Posters:

• Kristina Stinson: Regional, Historical, and Environmental Variation in A. petiolata occurrence in Western Massachusetts 
• Jonathan Thompson: Biomass energy and a changing forest landscape: Simulating the effects of intensified timber harvest for biomass energy 
• Audrey Barker-Plotkin: The Harvard Forest LTER 
• Dave Kittredge: It's the network: How personal relationships shape decisions about private forests