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July 1, 2011

Ragweed Experiment Underway

Hoop house for ragweed experiment

A major component of a 3-year allergenic plant study--funded by the EPA and led by HF ecologists Kristina Stinson and David Foster, with UMass professor Christine Rogers--is in its final stages of build-out in the Harvard Forest experimental garden. A team of staff and summer students have contributed to the construction of 14 hoop houses, which will each house 1,248

July 1, 2011

Asian Longhorned Beetle in the News

Forest ecologist Dave Orwig and colleagues have published a new article in the News Quarterly of the New England Society of American Foresters. Their research explored dispersal and tree selection by the Asian longhorned beetle (ALB), with overstory red maple emerging as a commonly exploited tree type. The article is available here. 

July 1, 2011

Mercury Briefings on Capitol Hill

Kathy Fallon Lambert, David Evers, David Gay and Charley Driscoll

On June 14, Kathy Fallon Lambert, Harvard Forest's Science and Policy Integration Program Director, presented at the U.S. Capitol with 3 colleagues, David Evers (Biodiversity Research institute), David Gay (National Atmospheric Deposition Program), and Charley Driscoll (Syracuse U. and Hubbard Brook LTER). Their presentations focused on the importance of establishing a comprehensive national mercury monitoring network in collaboration with existing

June 1, 2011

An Essential Guide to Viewing New England Wildlife

Wildlife of NE Cover

With practical guidance, helpful tips, and informative overviews of each location, The Wildlife of New England, by John S. Burk invites you to discover more than 80 wildlife-viewing areas around New England.

  • Where are you most likely to spot a moose, black bear, or otter in the wild?
  • On what hilltop can you see thousands of migrating hawks in a single day?
  • Where
June 1, 2011

Schoolyard Ecology Teachers Connect K-12 Students to Ecology

Schoolyard Teacher Honored 

Congratulations to Schoolyard Ecology Teacher, Maria Blewitt of Austin Preparatory School in Reading, MA, who was honored withBlewitt's Award
a Secretary's Award for Excellence in Environmental Education at the Boston State House last month. Maria has participated in the "Buds, Leaves, and Global Warming" Schoolyard study under the guidance of HF

June 1, 2011

Summer Interns Arrive

2011 REU Students

30 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 for eleven weeks. Under the guidance and supervision of researchers at the Forest, students will work on projects related to land-use history, phenology, plant physiology, invasive species, insect ecology,

June 1, 2011

Film Screening: Green Fire

On June 2 at 6:30pm, the new documentary Green Fire, which explores the life and legacy of Aldo Leopold, premieres in Boston at the Stuart Street Playhouse (info, trailers, and tickets available). This screening is co-sponsored by the Wildlands and Woodlands project and celebrates the 100th anniversary of the Weeks Act. 

June 1, 2011

July Conference on Decline and Treatment of New England Trees

On July 12, Dave Orwig will present at the Arnolod Arboretum (Boston, MA) information about tree decline resulting from a variety of stressors including native and exotic pests and pathogens. Conifer species will be highlighted, but ongoing hardwood tree problems will be included as well. Emphasis will be given to identification of the problem, the mode of tree decline, and

June 1, 2011

New Grant and Harvard Forest Publication: Invasive Pests

Hemlock wooly adelgid

Forest ecologist Dave Orwig, along with collaborators Evan Preisser (Principal Investigator-University of Rhode Island), Tom Holmes (USDA Forest Service), and Joe Elkinton (Umass Amherst) have received a $422,000 grant from the USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) - Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI). The grant focuses on the two invasive insects that threaten our native hemlock forest

June 1, 2011

New Harvard Forest Publication: Global Warming May Increase Carbon Storage

A paper recently published by Jerry Melillo of the Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences has been making news in the past few weeks. The paper describes the results of a 7-year soil warming study at Harvard Forest, which shows that trees growing in experimentally warmed soils sequester more carbon.

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