Fall newsletter is out, link in the bio! Find ways to connect and see what is happening this fall in the schoolyard!
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Headed to the ESA annual meeting in Baltimore this week? Swipe to see a schedule of presentations by Harvard Forest scientists, educators, interns, and affiliates.
🤓 We’ve got a packed lineup of speakers excited to share their research with our peers in the ecological sciences. Join us on Tuesday evening for the Harvard Forest social at Bambu in Baltimore!
📋 Full schedule w/locations in our LinkTree or visit HarvardForest.FAS.harvard.edu/ESA-2025
That’s a wrap on the 2025 Harvard Forest REU summer program! It goes by so fast when you’re having fun. Sydney Sauls and Laila LeRoy really produced something amazing over the summer and I am so proud of the work they did with the Nipmuc community. As always, the awesome Nia Holley (our Nipmuc partner) helped guide the process of centering Traditional Ecological Knowledge. The tireless Clarisse Hart shows everyone once again what it means to be a true supporter and partner in this work. This is likely our last REU summer project. BUT, our work continues and our family will keep growing. 🌱 ❤️ @harvard.forest
Yesterday was the bittersweet end of another great Summer Research Program in Ecology! We had a wonderful lineup of presentations held in our Fisher Museum.
🌳 In the first photo, Senior Scientist Audrey Barker Plotkin shares opening remarks; each student intern presented on their research to a room full of researchers and peers (2nd photo).
🙏🏽A huge thanks to our 2025 cohort of student interns for their dedication, good humor, and support of Harvard Forest’s research efforts!
📷 Ben Goulet-Scott
Attention Harvard students! Two of our research labs are seeking interns this fall.
🌱 These hybrid opportunities will give students hands-on experience in the study of forest ecology while contributing to the Harvard Forest’s world-class climate science research.
🌳 Apply by August 29.
🔗 Link in bio (Linktree -> Employment Opportunities)
Students from many universities visit Harvard Forest each season, and it’s always a treat when our summer interns get to meet those from other student research programs at Harvard! 😍 Last week we hosted visits from Harvard’s @arnold_arboretum and @harvard_oeb
🤓 Interns got to connect over the innovative work that they’re doing at Harvard, including research with the CLIFF project (2nd pic) and the myriad of research data that we obtain from the top of our hardwood walk-up tower. (The 1st pic isn’t from the top... everyone would be too tiny!).
📸 Thanks to Ben Goulet-Scott and Maura Collins for the pics.
These giant plastic sheets — 👏🏿 recently installed by a stellar team of Harvard Forest researchers and summer interns 👏🏽 — will divert roughly 90% of this area’s precipitation to an adjacent forested area, effectively mimicking drought conditions on one plot and increased precipitation on another.
☔️ This “precipitation manipulation” research at Harvard Forest is designed to mimic extreme precipitation events affecting temperate forests subject to fragmentation; the first of its kind at this scale, the project is a magnet for global climate research. AKA the Climate Interactions with Forest Fragmentation (CLIFF) Project, it was initiated in 2022 by Andrew Reinmann, currently a Bullard Fellow at Harvard Forest.
🤓 Learn more ➡️ harvardforest.fas.harvard.edu/precip-manip (or go to our Bio ➡️ Linktree)
