🌳👀 Free event @ HF this Saturday from 1-3pm! Learn how to ID trees with Elodie, our Education Assistant. This will include a 1.5 mile level walk on open trails; attendees will also hear about Harvard Forest research activities. RSVP not required. harvardforest.fas.harvard.edu/event/tree-i...

🌳Join us this Thurs 5/7 @ 7pm for the premiere of *Views from a Woodlot*, a short film highlighting the philosophy & decades of forestry leadership by Bruce Spencer, steward of MA’s 100,000-acre Quabbin Reservation for 40+ years. 💧In-person @ the HF Fisher Museum. RSVP not req'd. rb.gy/8qpbuj

Join us 4/23 @4:30p w/ @harvardsalata.bsky.social for a discussion on the critical role of ecol. restoration in tackling the global climate & nature crises. 🌳Hear from our Dir in Residence, Jonathan Thompson, & Thiago Picolo of re.green RE the global market for nature-based solutions. RSVP: Linktree

🌳 Seminar this Weds 4/9 @ 11am EST! Morgan Furze will present “Physiology, ecology, & evolution of carbohydrate storage in trees.” Morgan, Asst. Professor, joins us from Purdue University. 📍in-person @ HF 🤓 RSVP not required

🤩Check out the latest issue of Worcester Living magazine for a lovely highlight of the Fisher Museum at Harvard Forest! 🌳 worcesterliving-ma.newsmemory.com (See page 24)

🌲 Join us Weds 3/26 @ 11am EST! 🔬 Vidya Vuruputoor will discuss interdisciplinary approaches to studying Eastern Hemlock’s defenses against the Woolly Adelgid. 🧐 In/person & Zoom - Linktree ➡️ Seminars. 🌐 Registration not req’d; DM for PW (same as previous). 🤓

📢 Our Annual Ecology Symposium is next week! 🌳🔬👨🏽‍🎓 Zoom in to hear exciting research & education updates from HF researchers & associates. rb.gy/c0bjp5

Despite recent rain and snowfall, the state's groundwater levels are not where they need to be for the upcoming growing season. We're asking all residents to follow state guidance and local water restrictions to keep water available for essential needs. mass.gov/conservemawater

“I think what’s happening here is very real for all of us, and we could flop down and despair — seriously we could — but we’re also bolstered by a real sense of wonder at the resilience of ecosystems, at the way that trees work, the way these systems function.”

🌳Join us on 3/12 for "From Metal Mining to Data Mining: How Indigenous Data Governance Supports Sovereignty Within an Open Science Ecosystem" by Lydia Jennings, PhD (Pascua Yaqui Tribe, Wixárika). ⚛️ In-person @ Harvard Forest & on Zoom. 🌐💻 harvard.zoom.us/j/99148582331 DM for PW. (same as previous)

Join us this Saturday! 💫

We're honored to have worked w/BBC in their new series, the Americas, which aired yesterday on NBC. In their initial episode, The Atlantic Coast, narrator Tom Hanks discusses the science of fall colors. The “triple oak” mentioned is on nearby land stewarded by our longtime volunteers, the Feldmans!

Congrats to Samuel Jurado on his first first-authored paper! We found that larger rain events lead to lower soil moisture, creating dry land-atm feedbacks in the NE US by increasing the height of cloud formation. Research @harvardforest.bsky.social thx to @ameriflux.bsky.social & NSF REU & LTER

🦊🌞On Saturday, March 8 from 1:30-2:30 come to Harvard Forest for Seasonal Traditional Storytelling, led by our Indigenous Education Specialist, Keshia DeFreece Lawrence. Free & open to all; children are welcome. 🌳https://harvardforest.fas.harvard.edu/events

🌳Join us Weds (2/12) for "Rooted in Truths," a seminar by Andre StrongBearHeart Gaines Jr (Nipmuc), where he'll discuss restoring balance between everyday life & traditional values within colonial systems. 🌲 In-person ONLY @ Harvard Forest harvardforest.fas.harvard.edu/visit

📢 We’re hiring! 🌳 Each year, our Summer Research Program in Ecology is supported by an Assistant Coordinator / Resident advisor. Know anyone who would be a good fit? 🤔 👨🏽‍🎓👩🏻‍🏫 See this and several other job openings here: harvardforest.fas.harvard.edu/employment

🤓 Sometimes growth occurs quite slowly, and sometimes we may need a microscope to see it, but it still shows up!🌳 Hear from one of our Senior Ecologists, Neil Pederson, to discover how scientists read tree rings to understand centuries-old stories. 🌲🍃🔥@yellowbuckeye.bsky.social

Our seminars are back!🌳Join us this Weds @ 11am EST! 🌲🌍 Mariana Vázquez-Alonso will present "From Ancient Forests to Modern Carbon Neutral Initiatives: LiDAR biomass estimation across landscapes" in-person at Harvard Forest and on Zoom. 🌐💻 harvard.zoom.us/j/99148582331 DM for PW. (same as previous)

🌲 Sat. Jan 25 | 11am-12pm | @ Harvard Forest 🤓 Join us for a free public event & meet our Tree Ring Lab crew! 🌳 Tour will include a tree coring demo & Harvard Forest’s Tree Ring Lab, & discussion of old growth tree research! RSVP not required. harvardforest.fas.harvard.edu/events

It's Symposium day! Graduate students in our @uslter.bsky.social site program are presenting their work on myccorhizal fungi, methane cycling, landscape interpretation, pest forecasting, urbanization, and young students' STEM identity. Join us online! harvardforest.fas.harvard.edu/news/registe...

We're honored to have our meticulous phenological and meteorological data featured in this incredible work of #sciart / #dataviz by Jon Schroth (based in Connecticut): an ecological/phenological calendar for southern New England. www.resilience.org/stories/2024...

Each hurricane in New England wipes out ~10 yrs of forest carbon sequestration. If hurricanes become more frequent and/or intense here, the forests' ability to serve as carbon sinks may be at risk. Thx @josephtumber.bsky.social 4 vital @uslter.bsky.social work! northernwoodlands.org/discoveries/...

We've been spotlighting our Bullard Fellows for years now and this is the first one that made me choke up with admiration. Dr. Siddiq is a friend and hero of mine. harvardforest.fas.harvard.edu/news/bullard...

The Forest right now. Nice, right? All of our webcams are updated every half hour during daylight hours, thanks to the PhenoCam network! harvardforest.fas.harvard.edu/webcams

Starting now!

We're currently hiring for 3 positions: --Department Coordinator for Events and Property Operations (full-time, year-round) --Laboratory Technician (11 months) --Field Technician (temporary, summer 2024) harvardforest.fas.harvard.edu/employment

Our public seminars are back next week! On Wednesday, January 24, from 11:00-11:30am EST, we'll hear from Xiaojie Gao, a post-doc here at the Forest: "Seeing Forest Seasonality From Space" We hope you'll join us online! Message us for the Zoom link/password (which is the same as in past seminars).

"Trees are (part of) the answer" Seattle Times Op-Ed by former @harvardforest.bsky.social Bullard Fellow Bob Saul I could not agree more We need to recognize that these issues require much more nuanced thinking Thanks JT for sharing the article www.seattletimes.com/opinion/tree...

If you'll permit us momentary pretense that everything is normal right now, our final Fall ecology seminar is this week: Forest Estimation in the Age of Big(ger) Data, by Kelly McConville of the Harvard Stats dept., online this Weds Dec 13, 11:00- 12:00 EST. DM us for Zoom. OK, back to not-normal.

We have a 10-week summer research assistant position available for 2024 as a part of the Biden Administration's E.O. to conserving Mature and Old-Growth Forests. Our @harvardforest.bsky.social team will sample a variety of USFS forests. Please share widely www.youtube.com/watch?v=c28w...

The @harvardforest.bsky.social Tree-Ring Lab documented the oldest known Eastern Hemlock. Spied Erik Danielson, this tree adds ~20% to the max age of what is likely the most cored tree species in eastern North America. 📸 Look at this post on Facebook harvardforest.fas.harvard.edu/news/tree-ri...

Excited & Honored to give the LBNL Earth & Environmental Sciences ECOSSS inaugural seminar on Tuesday, Dec. 5th, 2023 9:00 am - 10:00 am PT! Join us for this livestreamed and open event: eesa-ecosss.lbl.gov

Hurricanes Pose Substantial Risk to New England Forest Carbon Stocks t.co/Y17x5qjGPz #biorxiv_ecology our new pre-print on the work I've been conducting during my postdoc @harvardforest.bsky.social with amazing collaborators

From @farhana.bsky.social's feed: If you know folks who need a code, have them go here directly. It’s not restricted to the listed categories anymore, so journalists, activists, students, etc welcome: #academicsky #geosky #highered docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Not-so-random forests: Comparing voting and decision tree ensembles for characterizing partial harvest events by Valerie Pasquarella @lucamorreale.bsky.social Jonathan Thompson & others! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Happy to see HF's Tree Ring Lab group spotlighted in this photo-rich field feature that really made me feel like I was there. With a $1m NSF grant, Pederson, Orwig, Smith, and Sharp have cored thousands of old trees across the northeast, from Maine to Pennsylvania. www.thisiscny.com/explore-upst...

Do you work on plant translational research and have a nice story you'd like to publish soon? We're preparing a Focus Issue @ThePlantCell with submission deadline August 2024, on Translating Research from Arabidopsis to Crop Plants and Beyond. #PlantScience academic.oup.com/plcell/pages...

We are excited to open applications for a Working Group on Culturally Responsive Mentoring in #Plantscience. We're looking for a diverse set of volunteers across all career stages (undergraduates to established mentors) to help develop this program. Apply by Jan 10. rootandshoot.org/working-grou...