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Harvard Forest has upgraded its audio-visual and video conferencing capabilities with a generous departmental support grant from the Harvard University Tozier Fund. The Dr. Charles H. Tozier Fund was designated to support visual education in the sciences. The $40,000 grant supported the installation of a state-of-the art video display, wall-mounted camera, audio system, and wireless microphones for video conferences. The

Harvard Forest's Schoolyard LTER Program, which currently trains teachers from over 50 schools to conduct ecological research in their schoolyards, has added a new professional development workshop for teacher participants. In the Data Level III workshop to be held in January, teachers will work one-on-one with Harvard Forest ecologists to explore advanced graphing techniques for their students' Schoolyard data. The

Kate Eisen, Summer Program for Ecology participant, presented a talk at the 2012 Society of American Foresters National Convention in Honolulu, Hawaii. The talk, "Long-Term Measurements Support Continuation of Northeastern Carbon Sink," was developed from her Summer 2011 research at the Harvard Forest. She worked with Collette Yee and mentor Audrey Barker Plotkin to complete the fifth census of

The researchers working in Senior Ecologist Elizabeth Crone's lab are engaged in a diversity of projects ranging from butterfly population dynamics to sugar maple seed production. Rui Zhang, a post-doctoral fellow who arrived in October, is collaborating with Finnish researcher Anne Jäkäläniemi to investigate how habitat transitions affect populations of Silene tartarica, an endangered riparian plant native to Finland. Post-doc