Outstanding Review Received for Long Term Ecological Research Program

This July, Harvard Forest hosted a 5-person review team that looked at the progress of the Harvard Forest LTER program. The review emphasized the following areas:

• Leadership in scientific collaboration and synthesis
• Value of a historic perspective
• Value of long-term biophysical measurements
• Contributions of experiments at Harvard Forest
• An educational program that fosters integration
• Advances in information management
• Current and new thrusts of LTER research

The Review team included Grace Brush - Johns Hopkins University, Norm Christensen - Duke University, John Stark - Utah State University, John Anderson - New Mexico State University, Richard Waring, Chair - Oregon State University. Henry Gholz - National Science Foundation and Sonia Ortega - NSF and University of New Mexico (LTER Office) were also present.

Read the review.