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October 1, 2010

New Harvard Forest Publication: Schoolyard Hemlock Wooly Adelgid Project

Hemlock Citizen Scientist project

Congrats once again to Kate Bennett, 5th grade Schoolyard Ecology Teacher who has published an article about her Woolly Bully/Hemlock Citizen Scientists project in the September edition of the National Science Teacher Association's journal. Kate's article was featured as a free download for web users during the month of September. 

October 1, 2010

New Grant to Investigate Multiple Factors of Plant Population Change

Elizabeth Crone studying riparian wildflowers

Understanding how plant populations respond to changing environments is complicated by the fact that fluctuations in plant performance reflect annual, year-to-year variation in the weather, a plant's ability to store and reallocate resources over time, as well as long-term trends in the environment. Elizabeth Crone received a $500,000 grant from the National Science Foundation to develop methods for separating these

October 1, 2010

David R. Foster and Wildlands and Woodlands receive the Charles Eliot Award from the Trustees of Reservations

David Foster on the back cover of Trustees of Reservations

The Trustees of Reservations, one of the nation's oldest land conservation organizations awarded the award to David Foster at their annual meeting on September 25. The award, named for the landscape architect and founder of the Trustees, was presented by Vice President Wes Ward for "David's 25 years of visionary commitment to conservation and his inspiration to the

October 1, 2010

Explore the Harvard Forest Data Map

Harvard Forest Data Map

The Harvard Forest Data Map (HFDM) incorporates the technology of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) with the research conducted at specific locations. With the support of the Harvard University Provost Technology Grant and the Center for Geographic Analysis, we have combined the extensive GIS spatial records for the Harvard Forest with the actual data collected at those sites. The HFDM allows

October 1, 2010

Harvard Forest Welcomes New Director of Science & Policy Integration Project

Kathy Lambert was appointed as director of the Science & Policy Integration Project in April, 2010. The Science & Policy Integration Project is a new effort at the Harvard Forest that builds bridges between long-term ecological research and related conservation and public policy. The project is focused on large scale drivers of environmental change in the Northeast including land use,

September 1, 2010

Grant to Support Undergraduate Research

Harvard Forest has received a 3-year, $420,000 grant from NASA's Global Climate Change Education program to support our summer undergraduate research program. This award will provide opportunities for four students from Lincoln University (Missouri), the home institution of recent Bullard Fellow Nsalambi Nkongolo, and local 5th-grade teacher Katie Bennett to work on data-model fusion and forecasting of environmental change

September 1, 2010

Student Symposium and Video on Deep Forest History

33 Summer REU students presented findings from their research projects at a Symposium in the Fisher Museum. Several students had continued large-scale research projects that have been operating for many years at Harvard Forest. Others helped with experiments that were in their first year, but that are expected to continue long into the future. These students learned a lot about

September 1, 2010

Summer Archaeological Field School Unearths the Sanderson Tannery

Archaeologist at Harvard Forest

This summer, 9 students took part in a 5-week Archaeological Field School at Harvard Forest, led by UMass Field School program director Dianna Doucette. At the Sanderson Tannery site, known to have been active from 1792 to 1829, the students uncovered a trove of colonial artifacts and also a few Native American relics: among them, ceramic sherds (pearlware, stoneware, yelloware,

September 1, 2010

Climate Change and Hayfever Research Underway

A group with Burkhard traps

As part of an ongoing study investigating climate change effects on human health, a team led by David Foster and Kristina Stinson (Harvard Forest) and Christine Rogers (University of MA School of Public Health & Health Sciences) recently deployed a series of pollen capturing instruments, known as Burkard traps, to monitor ragweed pollen across Massachusetts. The ragweed pollen season, which

September 1, 2010

Plantation Harvest Field Tour

Plantation Harvest Field

Tuesday, September 14 from 4:00 – 6:00 p.m. Harvard Forest

Tour Leaders: Audrey Barker Plotkin (Harvard Forest) and Ed Faison (Highstead)
Meet at the Fisher Museum at Harvard Forest,

In 2001, the Harvard Forest began planning how to bring nearly a century of plantation research to a grand finale, and developed a management plan in which 80 of about 125 acres of

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