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A new exhibit at the Griffin Museum of Photography's gallery in Belmont, Massachusetts, features photos of the Harvard Forest taken over a two-year period by John Hirsch. The exhibit, "And Again: Photographs from the Harvard Forest", features a range of Harvard Forest experiments, scientists, and landscapes. It runs January 18 through March 24, 2013, with a

Harvard Forest recently hosted a 5-day workshop for faculty and graduate students interested in learning to work with generalized linear mixed models, a statistical approach for estimating different kinds of variation in ecological processes. 

Workshop participants included eight university professors--from the University of Massachusetts, Colby College, Clayton State University, University of South Carolina, University of Minnesota, Wilkes-Barre University and Adam Mickiewiscz

The New York Times recently featured ecologist Anne Pringle's research on the growth of decades-old lichens in a nearby Petersham cemetery. Understanding how lichens live, grow, and senesce may help Pringle and her research team redefine biological mortality as we know it.

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A new Science Nation video and special report by the National Science Foundation highlights long-term carbon research at the Harvard Forest, with interviews by Harvard Forest director David Foster and Harvard School of Engineering & Applied Sciences research associate Bill Munger.

Science Nation is a video series distributed throughout the world, including to the PBS Newshour