564 00:50:32.460 --> 00:50:38.010 Clarisse Hart (she/her; Nipmuc land): Alright well why don't why don't we go ahead and get started, and Dave you were going to kick us off right? 565 00:50:38.340 --> 00:50:50.730 David Alan Orwig: Sure yeah. Thank you. So I certainly want to thank all the attendees for for coming today, my name is Dave Orwig and I'm a forest ecologist at Harvard Forest, one of the senior scientists. 566 00:50:51.390 --> 00:50:59.310 David Alan Orwig: And I've worked there for over 25 years and I basically study old growth forests and invasive insects and so it's been a wonderful place for me to work. 567 00:51:00.060 --> 00:51:10.410 David Alan Orwig: And i'm joined today by the entire search committee for this position. We're very excited to be at this place to be hiring a new senior scientist to join our diverse team of researchers, and so we hope to use this webinar today to help inform the attendees about Harvard Forest, a little bit more about the position itself, and then hope hopefully answer any questions you may have. And so, this webinar will be recorded and then eventually added to our information and FAQ page. Thank you again for attending and I thought I would turn it over to Clarisse Hart, our Director of outreach and education, to learn more about the logistics for today's webinar. Thanks. 571 00:51:47.880 --> 00:51:56.130 Clarisse Hart (she/her; Nipmuc land): Thanks Dave. Hi I'm Clarisse Hart and I use she/her pronouns and I'm the director of outreach and education here. I'm just going to start with some important housekeeping things. First is to welcome you all. This is the first time we've ever done a webinar like this for an open search, so if you feel like giving us some feedback on how it went for you we'd be grateful. I want to start with, in the tradition of the Indigenous communities around us, we want to start with a land acknowledgement. This is one that hasn't been vetted by our entire community we're working on that with the local tribe, but we felt like it was important to acknowledge the land, even if it statement is not official yet. We recognize this land is the unceded home territory of the Nipmuc Nation. We honor the millennia of stewardship that shaped the ecosystems surrounding us today and the ongoing vital role of Indigenous community members in shaping the ecosystems of tomorrow. We are committed to continuing to build a relationship with the Nipmuc community that ensures that this land and its benefits are mutually accessible, affirming, and sustaining. This is something I personally have have been doing a lot of work on lately. It's been really wonderful to build a real relationship with the Nipmuc tribe. So, again welcome, and we want to make sure that this presentation is accessible to everyone so if you need or want to download a copy of the slides I just put the link in the chat. There's also a bitly link here on the slide. Jonathan can you go to the next slide please. Thank you. So our plan for this session is to introduce ourselves and we're not going to do that all at the beginning; we're going to do it kind of as we move through the webinar while we will be answering some questions that we know we want to answer for you. Each person will answer one of those questions and introduce themselves before they do that. We want to introduce you to Harvard Forest and how especially how this position helps to move our mission forward, and of course we want to answer your questions so there's a couple of ways that you can ask questions. One is you can do it anonymously via a survey, so i'll put that link in the chat when i'm done talking. There's also a bitly link here. Or within the context of this zoom meeting you can use the Q & A tab and you can ask your question anonymously there. We're mostly going to be answering your questions in the second half of the webinar. So just know that we have registered your question, if you send one, and we will either be able to answer it in the context of the webinar, or if there's not time we will definitely post the answer in our faq that's on the webpage that hopefully brought you to this webinar. So know that your question will absolutely be answered. And let's see, I think that's all the housekeeping that we needed to do to get started. So let's let's move to the next slide and I want to introduce Missy Holbrook who's the director of the Harvard Forest. Actually she can introduce herself and tell you a little about Harvard Forest and our mission. 593 00:54:57.600 --> 00:55:04.440 Noel Michele Holbrook: Well Hello everyone and welcome, and thank you for coming again, my name is Missy Holbrook and I am the director of the Harvard Forest. I'm also a faculty member in the department of organismic and evolutionary biology at Harvard. I study vascular transport in plants, especially in trees, and that's an interest that dates from when I was an undergraduate at the Harvard Forest - so that's a long time ago. So let me start out by saying a few words about the Harvard Forest, its scope and mission and, in particular, how we see this position. For over 100 years Harvard Forest has been a real center and a leader on research on forests and forest landscapes and it's really legendary in my field of plant physiology, but also paleoecology, atmosphere-biosphere exchange, forest demography, and regional studies of human interactions with the forest and landscape. And central to this success and central to how we see our future is a core team of resident senior scientists, because we are committed to place-based and long term research. And so, with this new position we seek to expand our team to increase our ability to advance our mission of long term science and experiential learning. And therefore we're looking for someone who will join this group and will harness this opportunity to contribute to and help shape the next century of research, education and outreach at Harvard Forest. Okay, so what is the scientific team? At the moment it's six senior scientists and and I should say something by what we mean by senior because it doesn't mean that we all have a lot of gray hair. They're senior in the sense that that everyone on this this team is interested and entitled to carry out and lead with their scientific vision. And we expect them to be leaders in their field, to work across disciplines, to enhance collaborative projects, and to basically bring creativity and vision. We also ask our scientists to contribute in education and outreach. You can think of the Harvard Forest as having three pillars of research, education, and outreach -- all towards the greater goal of helping guide stewardship of the land. We believe the Harvard Forest has a key role to play today thinking about our collective futures and our need to address climate change into the future. Thinking about the fate of our the ecosystems that sustain us. So we're looking for a scientist who brings energy, vision, and excitement to join what is a really fabulously fun group of scientists, with a fabulous environment in which to work. I wasn't going to say too much, I think I will pass now to one of our senior scientists Neil Pederson, who is going to speak a little bit about this position, how it is different from other positions, and say a little bit about other opportunities that come along with this position. Pass to you, Neil. 611 00:58:20.910 --> 00:58:29.730 Neil Pederson - he, him: Thanks, Missy. I'm Neil Pederson. I'm a forest ecologist who studies the long term development of forest ecosystems with a particular focus on broadleaf dominated ecosystems which are, from my discipline, a little understudied. But I'm also interested in long-term climate change, and the interaction of climate change and forests. Before this I was - and I've been here seven years now - before this I was a research scientist at Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory, which is in some ways, similar to the Harvard Forest, as a research branch of Columbia University. Before that I was an assistant professor at Eastern Kentucky University in the department of biological sciences. Which is a university with a a master's terminal degree program and was teaching-focused. When I think about the Harvard Forest, and my career, I realize that I've been at now four institutes that are like field stations or research branches of a larger organization. The first one I was at, the buildings were just completed before I started, and now I'm here at the Harvard Forest, which is more than a century old and that really makes the Harvard Forest quite different. You know, and when I started thinking about it that Harvard Forest was established, just as earliest forestry universities were becoming formalized in the United States (the earliest programs started in the late 1800s early 1900s)...the Harvard forest was established in 1907 so there's a long history of scientific research that underlies many forest related disciplines like like mMissy just noted and I love to think about how one of the methodologies that I still use was conceptualized and published in a Harvard forest publication by Bob Marshall in 1927. And it was so far ahead of its time it really wasn't a method that was formalized until about the mid1970s. I won't say that it's the first one, but it's the one we can trace anyways so with this long history there's a deep and immense archive of thought and data. And literally, the archive, which is in the former garage at the Harvard Forest - it's been beautifully redone the tree ring lab is there and the archive is there. Trees are natural archives but the Harvard Flora has focused on both the archive of the research and the archive of people: there and letters and notes and there's just so much data available to you. Our research group has a new paper coming out from dendroband data - relatively high resolution dendroband data - that has been in the archive publicly available for more than four or five years and it just hasn't been used, yet. Audrey, who you will hear from soon, is remeasuring a plot that was established in 1969. So we have all this data, no matter what your discipline is or what you do I bet the Harvard forest has data that's publicly available but that maybe hasn't been published or definitely hasn't been analyzed in the new ways that we can do today. The other thing I really like about the Harvard Forest that I think makes it really different is, we have the Bullard Fellowship program which essentially, is a funded fellowship program where we bring in about four to seven mid to late career scientists who endeavor to take a new research project direction or collaboration and and fold it into their career. 635 01:02:20.220 --> 01:02:23.130 Neil Pederson - he, him: And it brings every year, you know it's like. 636 01:02:24.690 --> 01:02:32.610 Neil Pederson - he, him: No man it's not like the spring birds are returning but it's these this new group of people with new ideas and new new. 637 01:02:33.390 --> 01:02:46.980 Neil Pederson - he, him: outlooks the add a lot to our group, every year we get a new fusion of thought every year i've collaborated with an artist and with a journalist outside of people in my own program that I. 638 01:02:48.000 --> 01:02:58.650 Neil Pederson - he, him: As I sit and reflect on this program and I think about some of the things i've learned about personally, you know we've learned a lot about bird evolution and tropical forest over. 639 01:03:00.780 --> 01:03:09.690 Neil Pederson - he, him: millennia, and millions of years we've learned about leaf angles and and all kinds of things like that so there's a we're a small group. 640 01:03:10.980 --> 01:03:15.540 Neil Pederson - he, him: Setting a beautiful forest, but every year we get a new fusion of. 641 01:03:16.800 --> 01:03:28.980 Neil Pederson - he, him: Other scientists to collaborate with scientists and artists and journalist and really adds another dimension to the Harvard forest so with that i'd like to pass the baton on to Jonathan. 642 01:03:30.480 --> 01:03:49.380 Jonathan R. Thompson: Thank you, so I am Jonathan Thompson he him and I am also a senior ecologist at the Harvard for us, I am also the lead principal investigator for the long term ecological research program here in urban forest the lt our Program. 643 01:03:50.400 --> 01:03:58.140 Jonathan R. Thompson: we're going to start i'm curious suggested we say, one of the things that make Harvard for us a special place to work and for me. 644 01:03:59.100 --> 01:04:07.800 Jonathan R. Thompson: it's the way Harvard for us kind of has its foot in multiple worlds, at the same time it's at once the department at. 645 01:04:08.400 --> 01:04:16.080 Jonathan R. Thompson: The esteemed Harvard University it's also a field station out in a little town in the woods with. 646 01:04:16.920 --> 01:04:26.790 Jonathan R. Thompson: You know, a staff woods crew and a wood boilers and I, you know we heat all our own buildings, and so we get to be sort of. 647 01:04:27.240 --> 01:04:39.930 Jonathan R. Thompson: In these two niches that don't come together, that I find just a remarkable way to place to work and it builds community in a really distinct way that I I just love coming to work there. 648 01:04:41.220 --> 01:04:52.320 Jonathan R. Thompson: I actually was a postdoc at Harvard forest in 2008 and nine, and then I left and went to the smithsonian for five years, but I kept working on the lt our Program. 649 01:04:52.590 --> 01:05:07.410 Jonathan R. Thompson: So much that when a senior scientist position, just like this one opened up, I was eager to throw my hat in the ring and was fortunate enough to come back and i've been in this current position since 2013. 650 01:05:10.230 --> 01:05:26.010 Jonathan R. Thompson: So in addition to the bullard program which is Neil said sort of keeps this small place feeling bigger than it is because you got all these new people another way that's really true is oh i'm supposed to advance the slide to sorry about that. 651 01:05:27.150 --> 01:05:34.920 Jonathan R. Thompson: Is is the fact that we're a member, often the lead node in multiple ecological networks. 652 01:05:36.480 --> 01:05:45.750 Jonathan R. Thompson: As the p I of the LTE are, I of course think that's, the most important one, and it is in many ways the sort of glue that holds a lot of research. 653 01:05:46.140 --> 01:05:52.710 Jonathan R. Thompson: Together it's you know it's a bunch of money, but it's not enough money to fund things by itself, but it gets. 654 01:05:53.070 --> 01:06:02.610 Jonathan R. Thompson: it's used to leverage all sorts of other projects and Internet operates, this is magnet that brings lots of other researchers to work on the forest and. 655 01:06:03.270 --> 01:06:09.750 Jonathan R. Thompson: we're also a course site for neon the national ecological Observatory network which. 656 01:06:10.260 --> 01:06:20.370 Jonathan R. Thompson: complements the lt are, in many ways in so much as neon is a real top down protocol and LCR is a real bottom up protocol that's investigator driven. 657 01:06:20.730 --> 01:06:40.650 Jonathan R. Thompson: we're also part of the America flux network having to right now to flex towers, but have had as many as four going at a at a time that we have one in the declining hemlock for us that's being affected by him like Willy adelgid and another one in this folks Stan that. 658 01:06:41.790 --> 01:06:46.080 Jonathan R. Thompson: is maybe the longest running forest flux tower in the world. 659 01:06:46.620 --> 01:07:01.470 Jonathan R. Thompson: And we're also a member of the force GEO network that day mo runs and here we have a 35 hector plot with every stem bigger than your centimeter mapped and ID and re measured every five years, and so you you just layering. 660 01:07:01.920 --> 01:07:13.500 Jonathan R. Thompson: Research projects on top of research projects, you know, whoever ends up in this position, we hope that they're involved in all these networks i'll say I, I look forward to them being involved into the in the LTE are. 661 01:07:14.040 --> 01:07:27.060 Jonathan R. Thompson: it's impossible to say what that will mean because it's not as if you know we're going to say here take over the you know hurricane pull down experiment because first you'd have to fight audrey for that, but also. 662 01:07:27.450 --> 01:07:42.060 Jonathan R. Thompson: You know it's a chance for the scientists to integrate their research into a larger project, and you know build a new long term data stream that they vision and that they understand and try to make. 663 01:07:42.690 --> 01:07:55.380 Jonathan R. Thompson: It complimentary to all these incredible data streams we've been in the lt are since 1988 and so much of the long term data is part of that lt our Program. 664 01:07:56.970 --> 01:08:04.080 Jonathan R. Thompson: Some of the other projects are not you know field base and I, you know I do a lot of simulation modeling and. 665 01:08:04.590 --> 01:08:11.910 Jonathan R. Thompson: policy work and there's a real place for that and Harvard for us a lot of regional work and remote sensing and so while. 666 01:08:12.540 --> 01:08:24.270 Jonathan R. Thompson: Certainly, were first a public space research Center there's also global regional state implications of the work we do and we kind of come at it from all sorts of different methods. 667 01:08:24.810 --> 01:08:36.540 Jonathan R. Thompson: From dirty boots to remote sensing and everything else I think that's all I have, and I believe i'm handing off to audrey next right but I don't have the Doc open, besides the slides. 668 01:08:37.410 --> 01:08:38.310 Audrey A. Barker-Plotkin: Okay it's next. 669 01:08:38.370 --> 01:08:40.500 Jonathan R. Thompson: segment days next sorry after your day. 670 01:08:41.580 --> 01:08:42.330 Jonathan R. Thompson: Thanks. 671 01:08:44.070 --> 01:08:44.520 David Alan Orwig: So. 672 01:08:45.840 --> 01:08:53.070 David Alan Orwig: yeah thanks Jonathan kind of just piggybacking what you're talking about the myriad different types of collaborators, we have. 673 01:08:54.420 --> 01:09:05.850 David Alan Orwig: can all be found some times in many groups out there in the forest, at the same time, and so to me, one of the impressive parts about Harvard for us, and one of the reasons I wanted to come work there, even when I was in Grad school was this. 674 01:09:06.510 --> 01:09:17.310 David Alan Orwig: Emphasis on the land and in the land use, history and how important that was and shaping what we see today and how it affects them structure and composition and function of our force and so. 675 01:09:18.600 --> 01:09:25.080 David Alan Orwig: When I was in Grad school all the papers, I was focusing on was Harvard for us, and so it was wonderful will be able to get chance to come here and work and. 676 01:09:25.860 --> 01:09:38.610 David Alan Orwig: that's one of the best decisions I ever made, and so this slide I hope gives you some idea of the type of collaborative effort that we see all the time at Harvard forest the right hand side of the slide just shows are our. 677 01:09:39.180 --> 01:09:46.260 David Alan Orwig: main land based properties in Peters ham, with the upper right hand one being what's called our prospect hill tracked. 678 01:09:47.010 --> 01:09:51.300 David Alan Orwig: And then so on the left hand side, this is a blow up of the prospect hill tracked. 679 01:09:51.810 --> 01:09:59.250 David Alan Orwig: And I want you to focus just on the colors of the boxes that surround this prospect till track, because these are the types of collaborators that we have. 680 01:09:59.580 --> 01:10:07.890 David Alan Orwig: Working on that property at Harvard for us, and so the red boxes represent our collaborators from the Harvard University faculty. 681 01:10:08.580 --> 01:10:15.210 David Alan Orwig: So the red boxes are all the types of studies and scientific experiments, set up by the various departments and scientists at Harvard University. 682 01:10:15.630 --> 01:10:26.130 David Alan Orwig: So, this would include things like organism like an evolutionary biology engineering and applied sciences Arnold arboretum and extension school just to name name of feel. 683 01:10:27.060 --> 01:10:36.300 David Alan Orwig: That complements the green boxes here in this figure, which are the studies that are conducted by Harvard for scientists, and so this new person would also likely. 684 01:10:37.230 --> 01:10:42.990 David Alan Orwig: have a lot to pull from and build off of they'd like to based on the types of studies that we have here. 685 01:10:43.920 --> 01:10:59.400 David Alan Orwig: And then, what compliments all of these studies or the blue boxes, and these are all of our outside collaborators from nearby and sometimes faraway institutions that together represent this real breath of activity in collaboration that really make Harvard a special place. 686 01:11:01.140 --> 01:11:18.600 David Alan Orwig: It goes without saying that we also have power, not all words have power, and so this is kind of a unique element to some force and certainly power of enable some experiments be conducted here that couldn't be conducted elsewhere, and so I thought I just focus on one other example of. 687 01:11:19.770 --> 01:11:27.510 David Alan Orwig: Collaboration if you focus on this big rectangle here this what we affectionately call our mega plot and Jonathan alluded to it, and if I could have the next slide jump and. 688 01:11:29.250 --> 01:11:43.260 David Alan Orwig: You know this is our 500 by 700 meter plot 35 hector's where every stem is tagged map and measured and again I study hemlock and base of insects so every green little dot there over 25,000 of them are hemlocks and so. 689 01:11:43.710 --> 01:11:51.030 David Alan Orwig: We set this place up in 2010 and i'm very intrigued with how the decline and loss of him luck will influence force dynamics. 690 01:11:51.480 --> 01:12:00.120 David Alan Orwig: But you can imagine, if you have a stem map now with the exact locations of hundred thousand individuals that becomes very enticing to a wide range of researchers so. 691 01:12:00.540 --> 01:12:05.280 David Alan Orwig: Since 2010 we've literally had scores of studies that take advantage of this research. 692 01:12:05.850 --> 01:12:16.080 David Alan Orwig: infrastructure, including all types of remote sensing studies from either ground based lidar remote sensing from satellite a Fini illogical observations. 693 01:12:16.560 --> 01:12:19.200 David Alan Orwig: To the flux towers that Jonathan talked about. 694 01:12:19.770 --> 01:12:29.940 David Alan Orwig: You can imagine if you have a dominant species in the landscape it's declining doodle invasive insect this may play have a strong role to play and things like carbon fluxes that can be measured at the towers. 695 01:12:30.240 --> 01:12:40.440 David Alan Orwig: or hydrology that is measured at our stream where's that we have and so it's really become a magnet it's been a wonderful opportunity for me to be able to kind of branch out and. 696 01:12:41.190 --> 01:12:45.240 David Alan Orwig: collaborate with individuals that I wouldn't normally have because of these opportunities. 697 01:12:46.230 --> 01:13:01.770 David Alan Orwig: We even had a a full year on site art installation within the forest to kind of highlight and draw attention to invasive species in general and also will be adelgid it was called hemlock hospice and that was based on a. 698 01:13:02.220 --> 01:13:15.570 David Alan Orwig: Boston artist David buckley borden and also Aaron ellison help with that, and so this is just one example of how research infrastructure here it's very useful for scientists that leads to many other types of collaboration. 699 01:13:16.710 --> 01:13:17.520 David Alan Orwig: And so. 700 01:13:18.690 --> 01:13:19.350 David Alan Orwig: With that. 701 01:13:20.430 --> 01:13:28.020 David Alan Orwig: One of our other strengths, that we could switch to would be outreach and education, and with that audrey Parker plugin will discuss that. 702 01:13:30.330 --> 01:13:51.150 Audrey A. Barker-Plotkin: hey all right before I jump into our region education i'll just introduce myself and and to sort of link up some of the things that others have been talking about, so I am a senior ecologist at the Harvard forest i'm also the staff Forrester and. 703 01:13:52.650 --> 01:14:00.630 Audrey A. Barker-Plotkin: I have been at the Harvard forest for 23 years so it's a long term site and. 704 01:14:01.830 --> 01:14:08.580 Audrey A. Barker-Plotkin: Long term stuff at is really fabulous we're a small group so we're. 705 01:14:08.610 --> 01:14:10.080 Audrey A. Barker-Plotkin: Really excited to. 706 01:14:10.110 --> 01:14:17.100 Audrey A. Barker-Plotkin: have some fresh ideas and you know, a new staff scientists collaborator to work with. 707 01:14:18.390 --> 01:14:24.930 Audrey A. Barker-Plotkin: So that's you know we're really looking forward to that one of the things that I do. 708 01:14:26.160 --> 01:14:26.790 Audrey A. Barker-Plotkin: Another. 709 01:14:27.990 --> 01:14:39.210 Audrey A. Barker-Plotkin: thing is that I coordinate field site us, so I got a sort of pulse on the research that's happening at Harvard for us and you know missy and Neil and Jonathan and Dave have. 710 01:14:39.570 --> 01:14:50.610 Audrey A. Barker-Plotkin: already talked about you know a lot of the major collaborations and ecological networks that were part of, as well as a really long term site based work that we do. 711 01:14:51.570 --> 01:15:05.040 Audrey A. Barker-Plotkin: And that really draws researchers from lots of different institutions to do work at Harvard for us so every year, we have about 100 distinct research projects going on, so it's a really active place. 712 01:15:05.910 --> 01:15:09.630 Audrey A. Barker-Plotkin: Especially during the traditional field season. 713 01:15:10.230 --> 01:15:31.380 Audrey A. Barker-Plotkin: And that's one of the other reasons and i'm going to segue to our region, education, one of the ways that the the field season is newly enlivened is that we have a residential undergraduate research program at the Harvard forest that again has been running for going on 30 years. 714 01:15:32.520 --> 01:15:53.670 Audrey A. Barker-Plotkin: So I am the pci of our are you are research experience for undergraduates program and we leverage that with other funding sources so that we have a really robust summer undergraduate program every year with you know 20 to 25 students. 715 01:15:55.230 --> 01:16:09.390 Audrey A. Barker-Plotkin: And that's really important for a lot of reasons, you know so broadly you know, education is one of the key parts of the Harvard forest mission, and this is one of the programs that lets us implement that really fully. 716 01:16:10.020 --> 01:16:15.300 Audrey A. Barker-Plotkin: We welcome undergraduates from you institutions across the United States. 717 01:16:16.080 --> 01:16:25.650 Audrey A. Barker-Plotkin: And it's a great way for researchers based at Harvard for us, as well as research collaborators from other institutions to test out collaborative work together. 718 01:16:26.340 --> 01:16:45.300 Audrey A. Barker-Plotkin: And i'll emphasize it because mentoring, in the summer undergraduate program with be your kind of your you know this, this new scientist position their primary way of interacting with undergraduates, since this is not a teaching position. 719 01:16:47.280 --> 01:16:57.150 Audrey A. Barker-Plotkin: So it's it's also one of the are to date, more successful mechanisms for bringing human diversity to the forest and. 720 01:16:57.660 --> 01:17:09.810 Audrey A. Barker-Plotkin: Definitely every year for the past 10 years about 50% or more of our summer program participants are from traditionally marginalized groups in science and that's really important. 721 01:17:10.200 --> 01:17:21.360 Audrey A. Barker-Plotkin: And we keep track of you know all of our participants and see many of them going on to have you know really impactful academic and other great careers. 722 01:17:22.920 --> 01:17:29.250 Audrey A. Barker-Plotkin: let's see so that's you know that's the program that is nearest and dearest to my heart. 723 01:17:30.300 --> 01:17:45.900 Audrey A. Barker-Plotkin: But also, you mentioned that it's not the only education educational program that we run queries does a lot of work to interface with undergraduate courses from Harvard University so. 724 01:17:47.130 --> 01:18:00.570 Audrey A. Barker-Plotkin: Lots of courses from Harvard primarily, but some other institutions as well come out for weekend field trips, or you know tours of the forest or to do some sort of in the field exercise. 725 01:18:02.910 --> 01:18:18.870 Audrey A. Barker-Plotkin: sort of anchoring that for undergraduate groups and lots of other educational groups and K 12 groups as well, is that we have a really nice museum on site so. 726 01:18:19.350 --> 01:18:27.660 Audrey A. Barker-Plotkin: If you come to work at Harvard for us you'll get to tell all your friends hey come visit me at work and i'll show you the dire almonds that's super cool. 727 01:18:28.500 --> 01:18:46.170 Audrey A. Barker-Plotkin: um and so you know you have this history of welcoming people from the Community and lots of different educational groups to learn at Harvard forest and likewise we're continually learning and refining our. 728 01:18:47.460 --> 01:18:49.350 Audrey A. Barker-Plotkin: Public education programs. 729 01:18:51.000 --> 01:18:57.660 Audrey A. Barker-Plotkin: All right, I think that's what I wanted to say and i'll hand it over to Claire it's to fill in what I forgot and customer. 730 01:18:59.130 --> 01:19:03.240 Clarisse Hart (she/her; Nipmuc land): Thanks audrey so again i'm curious heart and i'm the director of outreach and education. 731 01:19:03.270 --> 01:19:04.950 Clarisse Hart (she/her; Nipmuc land): Nice your pronouns and. 732 01:19:06.330 --> 01:19:15.570 Clarisse Hart (she/her; Nipmuc land): audrey gave a great overview of the educational programs, that we do, I wanted to start by like saying a little more about what I love about working at Harvard for us because we're all supposed to do that. 733 01:19:16.170 --> 01:19:21.990 Clarisse Hart (she/her; Nipmuc land): So I came to work here as a research assistant, when I was 25 years old right out of Grad school and. 734 01:19:23.910 --> 01:19:39.240 Clarisse Hart (she/her; Nipmuc land): I I will, I just want to say that what I love about being a Harvard forest is how as a woman as a Latina as a gay person with a family as a parent, I have always felt. 735 01:19:40.050 --> 01:19:46.680 Clarisse Hart (she/her; Nipmuc land): Safe and supported and Oh, and I also have a disability that like takes me out of work, sometimes so like. 736 01:19:47.250 --> 01:19:53.550 Clarisse Hart (she/her; Nipmuc land): i've got stuff and i've always felt really supported here it's just an incredible incredible community. 737 01:19:54.090 --> 01:20:03.810 Clarisse Hart (she/her; Nipmuc land): Whether you're in the field, or you're working in education and the other thing I appreciate, as somebody who leads education outreach programs, is how game everybody is all the scientists like. 738 01:20:04.320 --> 01:20:14.310 Clarisse Hart (she/her; Nipmuc land): If I need to have like if if I need to have the BBC come and film something or if I need to have somebody talked to some cub scouts like. 739 01:20:15.240 --> 01:20:26.130 Clarisse Hart (she/her; Nipmuc land): The scientists here our game and it's it's it's a wonderful thing, my colleagues elsewhere i'm at other biological build stations and other institutions don't don't have such an easy time. 740 01:20:26.850 --> 01:20:37.170 Clarisse Hart (she/her; Nipmuc land): getting their scientists to talk to the public, but it's just part of the culture here and serving stakeholders is is something that we take really seriously, you know we don't just do science in an ivory tower here so. 741 01:20:38.010 --> 01:20:44.130 Clarisse Hart (she/her; Nipmuc land): Some of the stakeholders that we serve are represented on this slide again scientists are constantly taking people out into the woods. 742 01:20:44.880 --> 01:20:55.740 Clarisse Hart (she/her; Nipmuc land): To tell them about research tell them about why human decision making on the land is important to tell them that you know the decisions that we make now last for centuries so. 743 01:20:57.600 --> 01:21:10.140 Clarisse Hart (she/her; Nipmuc land): We invite policymakers here, we invite like this is Dave Warwick I think talking to a group of journalists lots of journalists come here we have a lot of conservation professionals foresters other groups that come to learn. 744 01:21:11.280 --> 01:21:18.300 Clarisse Hart (she/her; Nipmuc land): We have started this again I mentioned it earlier this wonderful relationship with the net mcc nation and. 745 01:21:19.410 --> 01:21:34.890 Clarisse Hart (she/her; Nipmuc land): That has been really important, obviously we have 4000 acres year of ancestral homeland and they have four acre reservation and so building a relationship here so that they can authentically use the land is something that's really important to me, and a lot of us. 746 01:21:37.290 --> 01:21:46.920 Clarisse Hart (she/her; Nipmuc land): All of our scientists have their eye on policy and making the science accessible to people so everybody's jonathan's lab, especially as often making web tools that. 747 01:21:48.090 --> 01:21:56.730 Clarisse Hart (she/her; Nipmuc land): decision makers can use so in the bottom right here, you see the Masters is 2050 decarbonisation roadmap he his lab spent like a whole year. 748 01:21:57.540 --> 01:22:07.620 Clarisse Hart (she/her; Nipmuc land): Trying to help the state make climate mitigation strategies from a from a land use perspective and so that the research here really gets us, I know Dave Warwick interfaces a lot with. 749 01:22:08.760 --> 01:22:16.650 Clarisse Hart (she/her; Nipmuc land): The state and federal government on on invasive species issues, so the list just goes on and on about the ways that we engage with stakeholders and. 750 01:22:16.860 --> 01:22:27.660 Clarisse Hart (she/her; Nipmuc land): We try to have it be two way in the middle, there you can see a stakeholder process happening, where we really are asking them what their questions are and what they feel like the drivers are that we need to investigate, so that we can. 751 01:22:28.470 --> 01:22:35.790 Clarisse Hart (she/her; Nipmuc land): We can know what kind of science will really help them engage with artists there's really beautiful art and the top right by debbie Gaspari we have. 752 01:22:36.180 --> 01:22:43.110 Clarisse Hart (she/her; Nipmuc land): A lot of artists and writers, coming as part of our fellowship program we think about public health here so really the sky's the limit. 753 01:22:43.470 --> 01:22:46.020 Clarisse Hart (she/her; Nipmuc land): For the senior scientist who's going to come. 754 01:22:46.410 --> 01:22:52.530 Clarisse Hart (she/her; Nipmuc land): To the Harvard for us, and we hope that that person will have a really strong sense of who their stakeholders are for their research and how. 755 01:22:52.770 --> 01:23:04.110 Clarisse Hart (she/her; Nipmuc land): Their research serves those stakeholders and and we're really supportive of course a broader impacts here and i'm we have just really great built in mechanisms and are always open to new ideas for how we can make broader impacts really. 756 01:23:04.380 --> 01:23:13.800 Clarisse Hart (she/her; Nipmuc land): Effective and not just kind of a throwaway thing yes we're going to do a workshop, you know we really try to engage with communities and make the science, accessible and beneficial. 757 01:23:15.450 --> 01:23:20.070 Clarisse Hart (she/her; Nipmuc land): So that's all I wanted to say about stakeholders now i'm going to. 758 01:23:21.330 --> 01:23:30.840 Clarisse Hart (she/her; Nipmuc land): push push the MIC back to David or wig who can just looking at the questions that we have received. 759 01:23:31.920 --> 01:23:41.310 Clarisse Hart (she/her; Nipmuc land): One that we received Dave Maybe you can speak to that one first is whether PhD candidates who are about to graduate are eligible for this position. 760 01:23:46.200 --> 01:23:47.010 Clarisse Hart (she/her; Nipmuc land): you're muted they. 761 01:23:49.590 --> 01:23:51.300 David Alan Orwig: were so loud truck before sorry about that. 762 01:23:52.200 --> 01:24:02.250 David Alan Orwig: We certainly encourage applicants from all career stages, but we're really looking for applicants to have a PhD and postdoctoral or similar experience for this position. 763 01:24:03.510 --> 01:24:04.230 David Alan Orwig: And so. 764 01:24:05.430 --> 01:24:07.500 David Alan Orwig: I just a little more experience than that. 765 01:24:08.610 --> 01:24:13.500 David Alan Orwig: And we certainly encourage people to also submit other questions that they may have. 766 01:24:15.510 --> 01:24:29.730 David Alan Orwig: So I would just piggyback one of the questions that we do get a lot is what disciplinary focus aren't we looking for, and it really literally is what wide open we're not targeting any specific discipline we're open to a wide variety of disciplines. 767 01:24:30.930 --> 01:24:37.800 David Alan Orwig: are hoping to find researchers that can utilize the land and research infrastructure that we kind of highlighted today. 768 01:24:39.210 --> 01:24:44.910 David Alan Orwig: Also complimenting ongoing research but building their own research lab in the discipline that they're. 769 01:24:45.960 --> 01:24:48.510 David Alan Orwig: Experts at the for today. 770 01:24:56.640 --> 01:24:59.730 Clarisse Hart (she/her; Nipmuc land): Today we have a new question in the Q amp a. 771 01:25:01.680 --> 01:25:02.550 Clarisse Hart (she/her; Nipmuc land): and 772 01:25:02.610 --> 01:25:09.750 David Alan Orwig: So I was wondering what opportunities to senior scientists have to meet up and share ideas yeah so it's been a little bit challenging as. 773 01:25:09.750 --> 01:25:10.260 David Alan Orwig: it's been. 774 01:25:10.500 --> 01:25:11.580 David Alan Orwig: Remote for a little while. 775 01:25:12.600 --> 01:25:12.930 David Alan Orwig: But. 776 01:25:14.130 --> 01:25:23.730 David Alan Orwig: See, this is a we there's a number of avenues that senior scientists have tend to meet up and share and i'm going to answer them if others on the search committee have ideas as well, but certainly. 777 01:25:25.350 --> 01:25:27.180 David Alan Orwig: We often will have. 778 01:25:28.230 --> 01:25:34.530 David Alan Orwig: Either quarterly meetings to talk about what what our most recent grants or papers are. 779 01:25:35.700 --> 01:25:45.120 David Alan Orwig: We can kind of brainstorm about hey you know there's this new opportunity coming up, we should really try to go for that what type of collaborative should we try to pull together to to do that. 780 01:25:46.620 --> 01:25:53.070 David Alan Orwig: We have an annual healthy our, meaning that brings not only our senior scientist, but all their senior scientists and collaborators together. 781 01:25:53.460 --> 01:26:06.390 David Alan Orwig: that's usually a great opportunity to try to formulate new opportunities and ideas for new research, so we do meet quite often it just hasn't been as much remotely, but we hope to start that again soon. 782 01:26:11.490 --> 01:26:12.210 David Alan Orwig: Others. 783 01:26:13.110 --> 01:26:16.740 Neil Pederson - he, him: I i'd add that did you mention the lab groups are. 784 01:26:16.830 --> 01:26:18.720 Noel Michele Holbrook: In the seminar on the weekly seminars. 785 01:26:18.780 --> 01:26:20.220 Noel Michele Holbrook: seminar for lab groups. 786 01:26:21.330 --> 01:26:34.080 David Alan Orwig: Yes, so throughout the Semester is usually we have we alternate Now it seems that our newest models are every once a week we either at will have a a seminar with the speaker that we bring in. 787 01:26:34.500 --> 01:26:42.630 David Alan Orwig: or a lab which is basically just an informal opportunity for senior scientist and other researchers to get together to either talk about a new idea. 788 01:26:42.870 --> 01:26:57.390 David Alan Orwig: of people reviewed, a new paper that you're getting ready to submit or brainstorming on new ideas, you may be at the very beginning of a research question that you may have and it's great opportunity for us to share ideas give critical feedback it's quite useful to getting. 789 01:26:58.410 --> 01:27:00.690 David Alan Orwig: new ideas started and moving forward. 790 01:27:08.070 --> 01:27:08.940 David Alan Orwig: And so. 791 01:27:09.030 --> 01:27:20.250 Neil Pederson - he, him: I would also add, though, that before the pandemic, we had lunches remember lunch soup club and and then occasionally we would gather. 792 01:27:20.970 --> 01:27:35.460 Neil Pederson - he, him: For various things new people coming or people leaving and my group would have lab group meetings, but then we would host sometimes a social, so there were a lot of ways to get together, I think opportunities. 793 01:27:38.730 --> 01:27:39.450 David Alan Orwig: yeah so. 794 01:27:41.130 --> 01:27:45.060 David Alan Orwig: Chris you want me to just try to start answering some of the stuff the way you'd like it to go. 795 01:27:45.390 --> 01:27:48.030 Clarisse Hart (she/her; Nipmuc land): Sorry i'm feeling there's a lot of questions coming in. 796 01:27:48.060 --> 01:27:49.920 David Alan Orwig: Okay, well, I know one. 797 01:27:50.340 --> 01:27:55.140 David Alan Orwig: And i'm just trying to try to answer some that I see you know what role, would the new Harvard for senior scientists have with. 798 01:27:55.440 --> 01:28:00.660 David Alan Orwig: academics for land protection in New England or Alpine and so helpline. 799 01:28:01.860 --> 01:28:15.480 David Alan Orwig: is one of the conservation initiatives that are enforced has been a part of, and so there would clearly be opportunities in roles that the New Scientist would have with that because that's something that is near and dear to our hearts, in terms of preserving. 800 01:28:16.560 --> 01:28:25.950 David Alan Orwig: The landscape of managed and unmanaged reserves and then to have academic institutions to be a part of that they would clearly be opportunities for that. 801 01:28:34.560 --> 01:28:38.460 Clarisse Hart (she/her; Nipmuc land): So Another question is about funding and what kind of funding sources, we. 802 01:28:38.550 --> 01:28:40.500 Clarisse Hart (she/her; Nipmuc land): We typically have. 803 01:28:45.240 --> 01:28:46.260 Meg Hastings (she/her): i'm happy to take that. 804 01:28:48.660 --> 01:28:56.940 Meg Hastings (she/her): So i'm Maggie scenes I actually haven't introduce myself i'm the director of frustration and facilities so not a scientist, is why i've been kind of quiet throughout. 805 01:28:57.690 --> 01:29:06.600 Meg Hastings (she/her): Much of the the Q amp a but obviously worked a lot with our scientists and enjoy support in their research here and that's one of my favorite things about Harvard for us, so I really do believe that. 806 01:29:07.560 --> 01:29:14.700 Meg Hastings (she/her): The research that that we're doing, and the next generation of scientists that were training is really important, and will make a difference in the world. 807 01:29:15.480 --> 01:29:22.770 Meg Hastings (she/her): And so, in terms of what fundings available for this position, so the salary, the 12 months salary for this position. 808 01:29:23.130 --> 01:29:39.450 Meg Hastings (she/her): is entirely funded by the department which I think is really unique in a research position you're not expected to raise any of your core salary, you are expected to raise external funds for your research program and to support research staff so called stocks or research assistants. 809 01:29:41.070 --> 01:29:48.330 Meg Hastings (she/her): who work with you and we also have a salary incentive program where, if you do get grants and you put. 810 01:29:48.960 --> 01:29:58.110 Meg Hastings (she/her): Part of your your core salary as the API on those grants, you can earn additional compensation in the forest and in terms of extra. 811 01:29:58.710 --> 01:30:15.900 Meg Hastings (she/her): In terms of external funders nsf is probably our bread and butter, we do have some support from foundations as well, so the I said foundation as a big supporter of ours we've also had support from other federal agencies like usda. 812 01:30:16.980 --> 01:30:33.270 Meg Hastings (she/her): We had our researcher of years ago, also had to be projects, but I would say nsf is probably the most common and we have a brand staff here, who is fantastic who would work in transitioning award from your current institution and also be there to help you apply for any new reports. 813 01:30:36.750 --> 01:30:37.800 David Alan Orwig: You thanks for that make. 814 01:30:38.970 --> 01:30:43.350 David Alan Orwig: There also is a question in the chat I thought we'd go in and hit some of these other ones as well. 815 01:30:44.160 --> 01:30:57.630 David Alan Orwig: by scientists able to create opportunities for supervision of graduate students and that's a great question you know, as this is not a teaching positions 100% research position, but there are opportunities that can be created to. 816 01:30:59.010 --> 01:31:05.040 David Alan Orwig: If not supervised grandsons at least be on Grad student committees and so many of us at Harvard force are. 817 01:31:05.610 --> 01:31:18.180 David Alan Orwig: considered adjunct faculty at other institutions, or we serve on steering committees or in some cases supervise students I supervise one at umass several years ago, and so I wonder if others would like to add anything to that. 818 01:31:20.790 --> 01:31:25.770 Jonathan R. Thompson: Please speak up if you do yeah i'd say it's important to know the. 819 01:31:27.330 --> 01:31:41.670 Jonathan R. Thompson: harbor for senior scientists are not faculty positions at Harvard University, so you you're not permitted to be the main advisor so that's why Dave talks about kind of these other rods it's also. 820 01:31:43.290 --> 01:31:51.150 Jonathan R. Thompson: You know, sometimes the departments at umass, particularly if it's a real manage for us type of thing that that isn't. 821 01:31:51.480 --> 01:32:11.190 Jonathan R. Thompson: Right and we be his wheelhouse and so sometimes working with other universities, is more appropriate depending on research, so I think you know all of us end up on student committees that you know multiple universities, as appropriate, but not me being the major Prof anybody at Harvard. 822 01:32:13.710 --> 01:32:15.510 Audrey A. Barker-Plotkin: guess, I would add to that and there it's. 823 01:32:16.110 --> 01:32:30.810 Audrey A. Barker-Plotkin: kind of a broader question about you know is is the position just research are also teaching and supervising students, I think that David and Jonathan answer that question really well regarding graduate student supervision um. 824 01:32:31.890 --> 01:32:48.870 Audrey A. Barker-Plotkin: However, you know we expect that this senior scientist this new senior scientists will build a lab and there are multiple ways to do that and one is to hire postdoctoral fellows and research assistants. 825 01:32:50.490 --> 01:32:52.860 Audrey A. Barker-Plotkin: You know that our grant funded primarily. 826 01:32:55.470 --> 01:33:13.710 Audrey A. Barker-Plotkin: undergraduates you know, in the summer research program are more transitory obviously but we get really talented students that often will publish a paper, especially if you end up working with them, for you know, beyond the duration of this summer, so I think that you know. 827 01:33:15.060 --> 01:33:25.380 Audrey A. Barker-Plotkin: This position is a little different from a faculty position, but you know the overall goal of building allowed is there and there, there are multiple ways that we do that here. 828 01:33:27.570 --> 01:33:29.550 Clarisse Hart (she/her; Nipmuc land): i'm just going to note, we have a lot of questions to. 829 01:33:29.610 --> 01:33:41.820 Clarisse Hart (she/her; Nipmuc land): try to get to one one is about research facilities on site is there wet lab or bench space and another person asks will the new hire have access to both drying wet lab facilities so does somebody want to speak to. 830 01:33:41.850 --> 01:33:52.380 David Alan Orwig: yeah I mean I can certainly talk about that, so we have a we have a fairly new and revised Tory nutrient laboratory at harbor force which has both. 831 01:33:52.890 --> 01:34:04.020 David Alan Orwig: dry lab will be core like soils lab and tech support lab and kind of our clean lab which has some laminar flow goods microplate reader subsidy freezer. 832 01:34:05.700 --> 01:34:13.320 David Alan Orwig: A CN analyzer and a legit nutrient auto analyzer in addition to other things so there's. 833 01:34:13.740 --> 01:34:24.360 David Alan Orwig: any number of opportunities, and in fact it's a great time to be trying to set up a lab and Harvard for us because lab activity kind of comes and goes depending on who's there and what visiting researchers and so. 834 01:34:24.600 --> 01:34:29.550 David Alan Orwig: it's a great opportunity to utilize that facility, right now, and to set up a lab. 835 01:34:35.880 --> 01:34:36.930 Noel Michele Holbrook: Dave let me. 836 01:34:36.960 --> 01:34:38.310 David Alan Orwig: To that advice, yes. 837 01:34:38.610 --> 01:34:48.240 Noel Michele Holbrook: We also have aerial bucket truck we have a lot of plant ECO physiological equipment, we have micro matt and. 838 01:34:49.410 --> 01:34:54.900 Noel Michele Holbrook: As well you know and then access to the flux tower and weather data so there's there's quite a lot of other. 839 01:34:56.010 --> 01:35:04.050 Noel Michele Holbrook: leaf area meters balances is there's really quite a lot of stuff that's already there in this in this shared facility so. 840 01:35:05.100 --> 01:35:08.850 Noel Michele Holbrook: And, and all the staff has all the science team has access to that. 841 01:35:13.680 --> 01:35:22.080 Clarisse Hart (she/her; Nipmuc land): Do you want to talk about the land base a little bit one person asked specifically about if there, because they do research in both natural and manage systems they're wondering if there are places. 842 01:35:23.430 --> 01:35:32.130 Clarisse Hart (she/her; Nipmuc land): Like that are farmed or restored parts of the harbor for us, I know somebody can answer that and whether they're collaborations in place to facilitate working with local farmers. 843 01:35:41.100 --> 01:35:41.430 Audrey A. Barker-Plotkin: I mean. 844 01:35:41.880 --> 01:35:43.680 David Alan Orwig: I can certainly take a stab at certainly. 845 01:35:44.010 --> 01:35:47.340 David Alan Orwig: You know the four properties that I showed you on on the map. 846 01:35:48.720 --> 01:35:57.780 David Alan Orwig: Many of them are natural and some are managed we heat our buildings with wood, and so we have certain properties that we actually manage and address the forest or, for that. 847 01:35:58.320 --> 01:36:14.040 David Alan Orwig: We do have a what's called a Harvard forest farm which we have some cattle on there, and some rotation with heying to look at how that may influence you know plant diversity it's not necessarily tilled farm but. 848 01:36:16.380 --> 01:36:18.780 David Alan Orwig: Maybe audrey has some other ideas for local farmers. 849 01:36:21.510 --> 01:36:40.860 Audrey A. Barker-Plotkin: yeah so, and you know, in addition, so Harvard forest our land base is you know more than 90% forested almost all of it has some management history associated with it sometimes you know lots of different things over the past millennia. 850 01:36:42.780 --> 01:36:56.040 Audrey A. Barker-Plotkin: That, in addition to the I think it's about 70 acre pasture land that is part of harford forest we don't have a lot of active agricultural research going on, we do have some. 851 01:36:56.610 --> 01:37:04.020 Audrey A. Barker-Plotkin: Collaborative collaborators at other institutions who are very interested in agricultural systems in New England. 852 01:37:04.560 --> 01:37:16.860 Audrey A. Barker-Plotkin: And that would be you know, a real opportunity for a new senior scientists to develop stronger collaborations you know, for example, University of Massachusetts amherst though land grant. 853 01:37:17.670 --> 01:37:29.550 Audrey A. Barker-Plotkin: Institution our state is 25 miles from Harvard for us and we do collaborate with a lot of researchers they're already, although not as much in the agricultural realm, so I think. 854 01:37:30.030 --> 01:37:43.200 Audrey A. Barker-Plotkin: You know, I think that there are definitely possibilities and you know some existing collaborations, but a lot of opportunity to build that that would you know you'd be excited to see that. 855 01:37:56.430 --> 01:38:06.300 Clarisse Hart (she/her; Nipmuc land): here's a question for Meg do we have our performance management system, and can you talk about Sir how this how this position is evaluated. 856 01:38:08.820 --> 01:38:20.490 Meg Hastings (she/her): So Harvard has a formal from annual performance review system where you write a self evaluation and you meet with your manager and discuss your progress over the year. 857 01:38:21.690 --> 01:38:30.510 Meg Hastings (she/her): harbored also encourages kind of weekly not weekly but regular check ins not weekly to talk about kind of how things are going, the position. 858 01:38:30.990 --> 01:38:38.130 Meg Hastings (she/her): So, unlike a faculty position it's not a term limited position so it's not like you have to kind of pass a performance review. 859 01:38:38.910 --> 01:38:50.190 Meg Hastings (she/her): or or external evaluation or something each year, so right now it's that's kind of our that's the system that we use it's kind of just harvard's own annual performance evaluation system. 860 01:38:50.520 --> 01:38:59.370 Meg Hastings (she/her): And so you would also work with your manager to set set goals for the coming year and you would do that together, and you would be assessed based on your progress towards those. 861 01:39:07.170 --> 01:39:12.570 Clarisse Hart (she/her; Nipmuc land): mag do you want to just quickly answer another question which is should a cover letter be addressed to a certain person. 862 01:39:16.050 --> 01:39:19.710 Meg Hastings (she/her): um I would say, you can address it to Dr awake. 863 01:39:19.740 --> 01:39:21.180 Meg Hastings (she/her): who's the Chair of our search committee. 864 01:39:29.610 --> 01:39:31.950 Clarisse Hart (she/her; Nipmuc land): Does all research, need to be based at Harvard for us. 865 01:39:36.450 --> 01:39:37.020 David Alan Orwig: Here, please. 866 01:39:37.560 --> 01:39:48.690 Noel Michele Holbrook: Oh sorry I don't know it doesn't mean Harvard force the in the in the land and the New England regional setting is really the the central focus but. 867 01:39:50.250 --> 01:40:02.100 Noel Michele Holbrook: Everybody has you know his projects and interests that expand that can expand beyond that, but without losing sight that our home base is at Harvard for us and really the. 868 01:40:03.510 --> 01:40:04.770 Noel Michele Holbrook: core of our. 869 01:40:06.030 --> 01:40:12.780 Noel Michele Holbrook: contribution should Center around the New England landscape and and therefore making use of Harvard for us. 870 01:40:25.770 --> 01:40:28.050 Noel Michele Holbrook: Anybody Dave you feel free to add to that. 871 01:40:30.600 --> 01:40:33.060 David Alan Orwig: Oh no I was kind of pretty much echo the fact that it. 872 01:40:33.240 --> 01:40:36.000 David Alan Orwig: did not all have to be hard for us, because we all have. 873 01:40:36.390 --> 01:40:46.440 David Alan Orwig: You see some element of our work that extends somewhere else, or some more than others, but some focuses in New England and so that's that's what we look for and so you said well. 874 01:40:49.620 --> 01:40:50.730 David Alan Orwig: I guess, there was a question about. 875 01:40:50.730 --> 01:40:52.680 David Alan Orwig: Whether the position was just. 876 01:40:53.520 --> 01:41:01.590 David Alan Orwig: researching but also supervising students, so we would look for that this senior scientist to you know, be able to. 877 01:41:02.220 --> 01:41:12.180 David Alan Orwig: Try to you know, probably have a mix of doing research, but you encourage them to mentor undergraduate students participate it on student committees, and so we want the. 878 01:41:12.690 --> 01:41:27.810 David Alan Orwig: site to be well rounded as much as they can and so doesn't all have to be research but it's certainly not teaching, but there will be supervision of of students in any number of capacities and participating other you know student groups that they may come here, I. 879 01:41:29.280 --> 01:41:30.240 David Alan Orwig: hope that answered that. 880 01:41:36.090 --> 01:41:44.160 Clarisse Hart (she/her; Nipmuc land): Does anybody want to weigh in on sort of the percentages of their time that they spend sort of researching versus like over the course of the year. 881 01:41:47.760 --> 01:41:49.230 Jonathan R. Thompson: I would answer that by. 882 01:41:49.290 --> 01:41:59.010 Jonathan R. Thompson: saying there there's few of us senior scientists that there and note two of us have the same portfolio, you heard. 883 01:41:59.370 --> 01:42:19.200 Jonathan R. Thompson: audrey describe her role before, and she works like five different jobs, it seems like she's the site manager the forester the PSI of the summer program and a senior ecologist and so her division as how she breaks that up is going to be a lot different than mine, which is. 884 01:42:20.670 --> 01:42:33.120 Jonathan R. Thompson: Certainly weighted towards research, but a lot of research administration to because i'm the API of the lt our site that involves lots of different collaborators and there's administration of that and. 885 01:42:33.690 --> 01:42:42.150 Jonathan R. Thompson: You know folks have have different approaches to their science I work a lot with postdocs and research assistant, so I probably have the biggest. 886 01:42:42.570 --> 01:42:52.860 Jonathan R. Thompson: lab whereas you know Dave does sort of the most fieldwork and he is on so many committees involved, you know state committee on wildlife and state committee on. 887 01:42:53.130 --> 01:43:03.420 Jonathan R. Thompson: invasive insects policies out, you know measuring and so I will go through everybody, but it's a different portfolio those get those emerged from the. 888 01:43:03.930 --> 01:43:17.130 Jonathan R. Thompson: Scientists sort of interests and talents and needs of the Community, all in consultation with the Director to figure out what that should look like, but there's definitely not one right answer to that question. 889 01:43:23.310 --> 01:43:30.720 Clarisse Hart (she/her; Nipmuc land): Like we had a question about the position is open to candidates of any country does that include non us and. 890 01:43:33.390 --> 01:43:46.890 Meg Hastings (she/her): Also, unfortunately, the positions only open to us citizen or permanent residence and this This is something that we're we're not happy about, but unfortunately it because it is a staff position at the university. 891 01:43:47.970 --> 01:43:53.490 Meg Hastings (she/her): we're not able to offer any visa sponsorship, the longer answer behind this is that. 892 01:43:54.420 --> 01:44:02.460 Meg Hastings (she/her): there's usually a visa there's usually a cap on the number say of each one he says that any organization can have and as an academic institution. 893 01:44:02.790 --> 01:44:13.860 Meg Hastings (she/her): Harvard doesn't have that CAP, but only because it will only use each one be the says for academic appointments and since this falls on kind of the staff side of the House. 894 01:44:14.610 --> 01:44:20.910 Meg Hastings (she/her): Where we're not able to offer these are some contraception and we will update that and all the other questions that we've had. 895 01:44:22.830 --> 01:44:29.880 Meg Hastings (she/her): As part of the frequently asked questions on the websites that others can do that others can have that same information. 896 01:44:30.990 --> 01:44:41.760 Meg Hastings (she/her): also saw there is a question about startup money for a lot of equipment so so start up, so there are there is startup funding available. 897 01:44:42.540 --> 01:44:48.510 Meg Hastings (she/her): This is something that would be negotiated with the director at the time of kind of making an offer. 898 01:44:49.410 --> 01:45:02.400 Meg Hastings (she/her): And we were you know we realized that relocating a lab and relocating people requires an investment, and so we absolutely are committed to doing that and to to work with the new hire teacher needs. 899 01:45:17.820 --> 01:45:29.010 Clarisse Hart (she/her; Nipmuc land): Another question about whether we prefer a forest ecologist or someone who has experience working in forests basically like what is sort of the skill set or portfolio that. 900 01:45:30.120 --> 01:45:31.320 Clarisse Hart (she/her; Nipmuc land): That we're looking for. 901 01:45:34.830 --> 01:45:46.560 Noel Michele Holbrook: So we are really genuine when we say that this is a broad search that we do not have an inside candidate or even an inside picture of what that person is going to look like, we would like to. 902 01:45:47.850 --> 01:45:52.920 Noel Michele Holbrook: expand our impact we're looking really for someone, would you know vision and. 903 01:45:55.470 --> 01:46:06.060 Noel Michele Holbrook: skill in their field and an understanding of how they can connect to our greater team and work together to advance our our goals, so so. 904 01:46:06.660 --> 01:46:20.880 Noel Michele Holbrook: We really don't have a preference and for a forest ecologists in any shape or form but rather we're looking for a colleague that's going to really add to our add in multiple ways to our team. 905 01:46:30.150 --> 01:46:41.940 Clarisse Hart (she/her; Nipmuc land): it's also why we have sort of a diverse search committee in terms of disciplinary areas, because I think if you asked any any one of us like what's the niche that needs to be filled like we would all answer it differently so. 906 01:46:43.680 --> 01:46:44.040 open. 907 01:46:49.470 --> 01:46:50.250 David Alan Orwig: The inquiry clarice. 908 01:46:50.280 --> 01:46:50.580 Jonathan R. Thompson: i'm going to. 909 01:46:50.610 --> 01:46:51.450 Jonathan R. Thompson: Stop sharing. 910 01:46:51.750 --> 01:46:56.280 Jonathan R. Thompson: slides here because I need to jump to another meeting at three so. 911 01:46:57.720 --> 01:47:02.610 Jonathan R. Thompson: thanks again to everybody, I think some of us will stay on but i'm i'm gonna have to disappear in a second. 912 01:47:04.680 --> 01:47:15.930 David Alan Orwig: increase the faq will be updated and I think, is that right as as time goes on, and will continue to be updated so we encourage people to check back with new information and maybe put on there. 913 01:47:16.770 --> 01:47:22.740 Clarisse Hart (she/her; Nipmuc land): yeah and that's the distance a question is a really important one and i'm sorry that we didn't have that up earlier. 914 01:47:32.130 --> 01:47:35.730 Clarisse Hart (she/her; Nipmuc land): Those are all the questions that have come in and that that times out perfectly. 915 01:47:36.000 --> 01:47:36.390 yeah. 916 01:47:39.960 --> 01:47:43.230 Meg Hastings (she/her): If we missed your question, somehow, please, please send it and again. 917 01:47:43.290 --> 01:47:44.400 Meg Hastings (she/her): We still have two minutes. 918 01:47:48.930 --> 01:48:03.270 Clarisse Hart (she/her; Nipmuc land): please feel free to put in the chat if you have any feedback on on this Q amp a we won't be offended at all feel like this was terrible, but if it was helpful to you if it's something you'd like to see more we would we would be happy to do it again for future searching. 919 01:48:14.400 --> 01:48:24.030 Clarisse Hart (she/her; Nipmuc land): We appreciate you all taking the time, and so, so the next steps, is that I think applications close September 15 sorry. 920 01:48:26.760 --> 01:48:28.050 Clarisse Hart (she/her; Nipmuc land): Dave I don't know if you want to wrap up. 921 01:48:28.590 --> 01:48:36.000 David Alan Orwig: Yes, I just wanted to first of all thank everyone for attending today, we hope, it was useful and we're excited about this next stage, we look forward to seeing. 922 01:48:36.450 --> 01:48:44.550 David Alan Orwig: Applications come in and to have someone joining joining our team it's a kind of a new time for us we're very much looking forward to it and so. 923 01:48:45.600 --> 01:48:48.660 David Alan Orwig: If you have additional questions, please let us know, and I just thank you for attending. 924 01:48:49.140 --> 01:48:54.150 Clarisse Hart (she/her; Nipmuc land): Someone did just ask what the anticipated timeline after after the applications close. 925 01:48:58.800 --> 01:49:00.270 David Alan Orwig: so hard to say for sure. 926 01:49:01.560 --> 01:49:06.900 David Alan Orwig: megan I were talking about this this morning, it will probably be several months, at least. 927 01:49:08.280 --> 01:49:09.180 David Alan Orwig: They agree Meg. 928 01:49:11.370 --> 01:49:18.720 Meg Hastings (she/her): yeah and also i'll say two weeks to set a couple times about applications closing, so I would say September 15 today we're going to start reviewing but. 929 01:49:19.110 --> 01:49:28.020 Meg Hastings (she/her): The position is going to be open until it's filled and so on, because it's important to us to find the rates, the right person and the rain fed and that that means holding holding the. 930 01:49:28.770 --> 01:49:37.020 Meg Hastings (she/her): The floodgates open a while longer and having more applications come in that's that's what we will do and so that's why it's also hard to give an answer as to what the timeline is going to look like. 931 01:49:41.010 --> 01:49:41.310 Meg Hastings (she/her): awesome. 932 01:49:45.330 --> 01:49:49.080 David Alan Orwig: Great well thanks very much look forward to seeing the applications. 933 01:49:52.710 --> 01:49:54.090 Clarisse Hart (she/her; Nipmuc land): Thanks everybody have a good day. 934 01:49:54.450 --> 01:49:55.920 Noel Michele Holbrook: Thanks everyone bye. 935 01:50:16.170 --> 01:50:23.220 Clarisse Hart (she/her; Nipmuc land): I don't know if folks have time, but I will I can i'll email around another zoom link and maybe we could debrief do people have time for that, or should we just plan to. 936 01:50:25.980 --> 01:50:26.580 Noel Michele Holbrook: think we still have. 937 01:50:27.000 --> 01:50:27.510 Meg Hastings (she/her): To go on. 938 01:50:28.530 --> 01:50:30.090 Meg Hastings (she/her): The other side you're still two folks. 939 01:50:30.630 --> 01:50:34.050 Audrey A. Barker-Plotkin: yeah yeah that sounds good i'm freedom 330. 940 01:50:36.630 --> 01:50:38.610 Clarisse Hart (she/her; Nipmuc land): i'll say thanks.