Harvard Forest Report

2008-2010

Harvard Forest Report

2008-2010

2008-2010

Annual Report

Table of Contents

Letter from the DirectorResearchPolicy & ConservationOutreach & EducationFacilitiesSeminars & PublicationsGrants & FinancialsStaff, Students, & Fellows

About the Harvard Forest

Contact

324 North Main Street

Petersham, MA 01366

(978) 724-3302

http://harvardforest.fas.harvard.edu

Letter from the Director

Foundation Species at Risk

Oak/hemlock

RESEARCH

Secrets of the Mud (student video highlight)

Tracking a Warming ClimateRagweed?

Warm Ants?

Phenology?

E Crone research?

RESEARCH

Wildlife in the Changing Landscape

Ungulate Grazing Experiment

RESEARCH

2008-2009 Plantation Harvest

Carbon’s Many Forms

Atmosphere-Canopy Exchange

Soil

Water

RESEARCH

Mapping InvadersAdelgid

ALB

Garlic mustard?

RESEARCH

New Projects

RESEARCH

Food webs…Snow pillow…Analytic web…HF Flora

New Resources

RESEARCH

Megaplot (could be a box inset elsewhere)

HF data map

Field wireless

Canopy cam

NEON?

Long-Term Experimentsat Harvard Forest

Soil Warming

Simes

Towers

Hurricane Pulldown

Chronic N

…

RESEARCH

Hurricane ManipulationPurpose:

1990

Excel has some veryelegant timeline tools. This is not one of them.

Timeline format not necessary. Could instead group photos with paragraphs.

“Research conducted at the Harvard

Forest has repeatedly transformed the

way we think about ecological

systems.”

~NSF’s Site Review Team (2009)

Science Informing Policy

Science & Policy Integration Project

Forest Futures

POLICY AND CONSERVATION

New England Land Conservation

W&W

Conservation Finance

POLICY AND CONSERVATION

Summer Research Program

EDUCATION & OUTREACH

Program overview

Summer 2010 project list

Summer Research Program (may not need 2 pages)

EDUCATION & OUTREACH

Alum Highlight

Program statistics

Harvard University Programs

Freshman Seminar

Winter Break

New Outreach Manager

EDUCATION & OUTREACH

Student Highlight

Special ProgramsArchaeological Field School

Arts @ HF

ESA SEEDS visit

EDUCATION & OUTREACH

Schoolyard Ecology (K-12)MAY NEED 2 PAGES

Program highlights

Teacher awards & publications

Map of active schools

EDUCATION & OUTREACH

Schoolyard Ecology (K-12)Map of active schools

EDUCATION & OUTREACH

FacilitiesTorrey Renovation

Alternative Energy & GHG Goals

Facilities (may not need 2 pages)

Archives/Library

Museum?

Bryant House

Gould update?

Spring 2011

January 28 BioMap 2Henry Woolsey – Mass. Natural Heritage & Endangered Species ProgramAndrew Finton –The Nature ConservancyJames DeNormandie – Massachusetts Audubon Society

February 11 TBAMichael Wojtech

February 18 Ecological recovery in Maine's waterways and nearshore marine ecosystemsJohn Lichter – Bowdoin College & Harvard Bullard Fellow Ted Ames – Penobscot East Resource Center

February 25 TBARozainah Zakaria – University of Malaya

March 25 Genomic analysis of emerging fungal pathogens of bats and amphibiansChristina Cuomo – Broad Institute

April 1 Continental-scale research on butterfly ecology and evolution: a sampling of results from multiple North American monitoring programsLeslie Ries – University of Maryland

April 8 Ghosts in the Forest: Interpreting the New England landscape through art, artifacts, and ecologyDebby Kaspari – Harvard Bullard Fellow, Natural History Art and Illustration

April 15 TBAIrma Nieto – University of Vermont

April 29 Fungal seedling pathogens and the maintenance of temperate forest diversity

Michelle Hersh – Bard College and Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies

May 6 TBADianna Doucette – University of Massachusetts 2010 Archaeological Field School Director

May 13 New roles for small land trusts: a risk-reward perspectiveStephen Johnson – Harvard Bullard Fellow

Note: As of 2011 ,all seminars are available online---streamed in real-timeas they occur, then archived on the Harvard Forest website.

Fall 2010

September 10 Forest landscape structure and its eco-hydrological effects in the Qilian Mountains in Northwest China

Xiao Duning – Academia Sinica, Institute of Applied Ecology, Shenyang, China

September 17 Climatic and herbivory controls on the late-glacial no-analogue plant communities of the upper Midwest

Jack Williams –University of Wisconsin and Harvard Bullard Fellow

September 24 Predicting global environmental change effects in terrestrial-aquatic ecosystems

John Kominoski – University of Georgia

October 1 Connections between land use, hydrology, suspended sediment, and carbon export: examples from Harvard Forest and Worcester

Sara Mitchell – College of the Holy Cross

October 8 The present, recent past and possible future of broadleaved woodlands in Britain: bringing light unto the darkness!

Simon Smart – Lancaster University and Harvard Bullard Fellow

October 15 Wild urban plants of the NortheastPeter DelTredici – Arnold Arboretum and Harvard University Graduate School of Design

October 22 Genome-based approaches for understanding relationships betweenmicrobial forest soil community members

Jeff Blanchard – University of Massachusetts and Harvard Bullard Fellow

October 29 Improving the quality of forest-tree seedling production in the Philippines –an application of systems thinking integrating science, social science and policy

John Herbohn – The University of Queensland and Harvard Bullard Fellow

November 12 Challenges to private land conservation in the 21st centuryStephen Johnson – Harvard Bullard Fellow

December 17 On the causes and consequences of region-wide changes in the dynamics and disturbance regimes within the eastern deciduous forest of the U. S.

Walter Carson – University of Pittsburgh

2010-2011 Seminars

2010 PublicationsEllison, A.M.

Foster, D.R.

Stinson, K.S.

[[could also do 2008-2010 pubs]]

Grants & Financial InformationFY 2011 OPERATING BUDGET:

$4.5 million

TOTAL FEDERAL GRANT FUNDING for CURRENT RESEARCH: $11,562,861

EDUCATION & OUTREACH SUPPORT FROM:

Blue Hills Foundation

Conservation & Research Foundation

Highstead

Fields Pond Foundation

Fine Family Fund

Orchard Foundation

FAS Library/Archives Grants

&c

If financials don’t take up a whole page,we could merge all this with the previous page.

Major grant highlight (for a project not already featured)

2010 Research StaffAudrey Barker-Plotkin, Research Assistant

Emery Boose, Information & Computer Systems Manager

Elizabeth Colburn, Aquatic Ecologist

Elizabeth Crone, Senior Ecologist

Elaine Doughty, Research Assistant

Aaron Ellison, Senior Ecologist

David Foster, Director

Brian Hall, Research Assistant

Heidi Lux, Research Assistant

Kathy Fallon Lambert, Director, Science & Policy Integration

James Levitt, Director, Program on Conservation Innovation

Liza Nicoll, Research Assistant

David Orwig, Forest Ecologist

Mark Pelini, Research Assistant

Kristina Stinson, Population Ecologist

Mark VanScoy, Research Assistant

Transitions

Welcome Elizabeth Crone

Goodbye Glenn and JulianResearch AffiliatesBarry Tomlinson

David Kittredge

Wyatt Oswald

Ed Faison

Bill Labich

Brian Donahue

MBL

2010 Administrative Staff

Administration and Education

Jeannette Bowlen, Accounting Assistant

Laurie Chiasson, Receptionist

Edythe Ellin, Director of Administration

Linda Hampson, Administrative Assistant

Clarisse Hart, Outreach & Development Manager

Julie Pallant, System and Web Administrator

Lisa Richardson, Accounting Assistant

Pamela Snow, Schoolyard K-12 Program Coordinator

Woods Crew

Lucas Griffith

Oscar Lacwasan

Ronald May

John Wisnewski

Scot Wiinikka

TransitionsWelcome KFL

Goodbye JOK

Harvard University AffiliatesPeter del Tredici Arnold Arboretum

Kathleen Donohue OEB

Richard TT Forman Graduate School of Design

Charles H.W. Foster

Ned Friedman Arnold Arboretum

N. Michelle Holbrook OEB

Paul Moorcroft OEB

J. William Munger SEAS

Anne Pringle OEB

Andrew Richardson OEB

Noreen Tuross Anthropology

Steve Wofsy SEAS

Post-Docs & Graduate Students

Post-doctoral Fellows

Matthew Fitzpatrick (2007-2009)

Jonathan Thompson (2008-2009)

Shannon Pelini (2008-present)

Benjamin Baiser (2009-present)

Sydne Record (2010-present)

Graduate Students

Sydne Record (200?-2010)

Israel del Toro (2009-present)Others such as Primrose Boynton?

Bullard FellowsThe Charles Bullard fellowship program supports advanced research and study for 6 to 12 months by individuals who show promise of making an important contribution, either as scholars or administrators, to forestry and forest-related subjects. Applications can be found on the Harvard Forest website and are due each year on February 1.

2008-2009 FellowsStephen Blackmer, Forest Conservation and PolicyXiaojun Du, Forest Ecology (Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences) Serita Frey, Soil microbial ecology (University of New Hampshire)Carlos Garcia, Plant Physiological Ecology (Instituto de Ciencias Ambientales y Ecológicas (ICAE),

Universidad de Los Ande)Matts Lindbladh, Forest History and Conservation, (Swedish University of Agriculture Sciences)Nophea Sasaki, Tropical Forestry and Climate Policy (University of Hyogo, Japan)Bill Sobczak, Stream Biogeochemistry and Ecology (College of the Holy Cross)Debabrata Swain, Understanding past and present human impacts on tropical deciduous forests

(Indian Forest Service)Jonathan Thompson, Forest Simulation Modeling (Oregon State University)

2009-2010 FellowsShinichiro Aiba, Plant Ecology (Kagoshima University, Japan)Kamaljit S. Bawa Conservation Biology (U. of Massachusetts–Boston)Shabtai Cohen, Experimental Biology, (Institute of Soil, Water and Environmental Sciences, Israel)Quentin Cronk, Evolutionary Genomics of Xylogenesis (The University of British Columbia, Canada)Christopher Neill, Amazon Ecology (The Ecosystems Center, Marine Biological Laboratory)Nsalambi V. Nkongolo, Forest Soils (Lincoln University)

2010-2011 FellowsJeffrey Blanchard, Microbial Genomics and Ecology (U. of Massachusetts-Amherst )John Herbohn, Small-Scale Forestry & Carbon Sequestration (The University of Queensland, Australia)Stephen Johnson, Private Land Conservation (Bozeman, Montana)Deborah Kaspari, Interpretive Artwork: Historical Sites & Forest Dynamics (Norman, Oklahoma)Kathy Fallon Lambert, Science & Policy Integration (Hartland, Vermont)John Lichter, Ecosystem & Historical Ecology and Conservation (Bowdoin College)Simon Smart, Woodland ecological dynamics (Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, UK)John Williams, Paleoecology, Paleoclimatology, Biogeography (U. of Wisconsin-Madison)

324 North Main Street, Petersham, MA 01366

(978) 724-3302 ▫ http://harvardforest.fas.harvard.edu

Something interesting and forward-looking on back cover… not necessarily a wordle.