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December 1, 2010

Renewable Energy at Harvard Forest

The Harvard Forest has recently received a grant from the Massachusetts Clean Energy Center to undergo a feasibility study over the next 12 to 18 months that will consider the potential for one wind turbine on four possible sites. The study will evaluate environmental impacts and wind availability using Sonic Detection and Ranging (SODAR) equipment, which employs sound waves to

December 1, 2010

January Term Undergraduate Class Offered at Harvard Forest

This winter, a new January Term course will be offered at Harvard Forest: Reading the New England Landscape: Conservation and human impacts on the past, present, and future. This highly interdisciplinary and hands-on course will explore modern-day connections between humans and the natural environment through the lens of long-term landscape change. Inquiry will focus on the historical and archival records

November 1, 2010

New Harvard Forest Publication: Ecological Change During the Holocene on Long Island

A sediment record from Wildwood Lake, Long Island, New York provides insight into past environmental and ecological changes in the northeastern US. Analyses of pollen, charcoal, and organic content reveal the history of climatic variations, fire, and pitch pine-scrub oak woodlands over the last 10,000 years.

Oswald, W.W., D.R. Foster, E. D. Doughty and D. MacDonald. 2010. A record

November 1, 2010

LTER graduate students gather at Harvard Forest

Seven graduate students representing the three LTER sites

On Saturday, October 9, seven graduate students representing the three LTER sites in New England (Harvard Forest, Hubbard Brook, and Plum Island Ecosystems) gathered at the Forest to share their research and tour field sites. 

The summit is scheduled occur each fall, rotating locations between the three sites. All graduate students and post-docs involved in research at a New England LTER

November 1, 2010

Boston Globe features Wildlands and Woodlands initiative

Harvard Forest and the Wildlands and Woodlands project drew a feature story last month in the Boston Globe Magazine. 

November 1, 2010

Freshman Seminar Instructors Win Teaching Award

At an awards reception on October 26, Harvard Forest research ecologists Kristina Stinson and David Orwig were awarded Certificates of Distinction in Teaching for their work with the Harvard Forest Freshman Seminar during the spring 2010 semester. These awards are granted biannually by Harvard University's Derek Bok Center for Teaching and Learning. 

November 1, 2010

Summer Student Screens Film at Boston’s Museum of Science

The new documentary "Secrets of the Mud: The Hemlock Mystery," by 2010 HF Summer Program student Allison Gillette, was screened in early October at an event at the Museum of Science in Boston. Allison created the film with Emerson College professor and Harvard Forest researcher Wyatt Oswald during this summer's Research Experiences for Undergraduates program. The

November 1, 2010

First Phase of Mega-Plot Mapping Completed (30,000 stems!)

Tree measuring at mega-plot

This summer, ecologist Dave Orwig and a crew of 6 technicians established a new, 35-hectare (about 85 acres) research "mega-plot" on Harvard Forest's Prospect Hill. Over the course of 13 weeks, they measured, tagged, and mapped every woody plant stem greater than 1 cm diameter. In the end, a whopping 29,908 stems were analyzed. Work will resume next summer to

October 1, 2010

Harvard Forest Book Republished as Classic Text

When Tropical Trees as Living Systems was published in 1978, tropical forests were a mystery to many ecologists. The book, edited by Harvard Forest botanist P. Barry Tomlinson with Martin Zimmerman, has been re-released this year in paperback by Cambridge University Press. The book publishes the results of the Fourth Cabot Symposium held at the Harvard Forest in

October 1, 2010

New Harvard Forest Publication: Moose and Deer Exclosures in Massachusetts and Connecticut

A stroll through a recent patch cut or shelterwood harvest in Massachusetts or northern Connecticut reveals not only prolific tree regeneration but an astonishing level of ungulate browsing. To what extent moose and deer browsing is altering forest development in these regenerating stands is a question that Harvard Forest researcher, Ed Faison; Massachusetts Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Unit leader, Stephen

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