Harvard Forest Research Projects 2026

Aho, Kelly. Lateral CO2 and CH4 fluxes at Harvard Forest.
Allen, Scott. Macroscale study of forest litter effects on precipitation interception and soil water budgets.
Barker Plotkin, Audrey. Hemlock Removal Experiment: light and temperature environment.
Barker Plotkin, Audrey. Hurricane Manipulation Experiment.
Barker Plotkin, Audrey. Longitudinal Outcomes of Summer Undergraduate Research: Harvard Forest Summer Research Program in Ecology (HF-SRPE).
Barker Plotkin, Audrey. Lymantria dispar & Oak Dynamics at Harvard Forest and Central Massachusetts.
Barker Plotkin, Audrey. Mapped Overstory Plots at TSI.
Barker Plotkin, Audrey. Nonstructural carbohydrates in oaks in the CLIFF experiment.
Barker Plotkin, Audrey. Prospect Hill Forest Plots.
Barker Plotkin, Audrey. Vegetation Dynamics in the Hemlock Removal Experiment.
Barney, William. Hyperspectral Assessment of Vegetation Plots.
Bellono, Nicholas. Molecular mechanisms underlying ancient cross-kingdom interactions and terrestrial life.
Bhatnagar, Jennifer. Tree-Associated Fungal and Bacterial Communities at Harvard Forest 2021.
Boose, Emery. Field Wireless Network.
Boose, Emery. Fisher Meteorological Station.
Boose, Emery. Hardwood Walk-up Tower for Research, Education, Communication, and Outreach.
Boose, Emery. Prospect Hill Hydrology.
Boose, Emery. Snow Pillow.
Boutt, David. Subsurface Storage Changes in Upland Environments.
Brinkerhoff, Craig. Monitoring headwater stream dynamics in the Harvard Forest.
Brooks, Lisa. Keystone Kin.
Burr, Nat. Genetic variation in populations of a data-sensitive species across New England: mapping the genome of a rare native forest understory plant.
Cavender-Bares, Jeannine. Spectral and Structural Diversity of Trees in the Harvard Forest CTFS-ForestGEO Plot.
Clark, James. Collaborative proposal: Combining NEON and remotely sensed habitats to determine climate impacts on community dynamics.
Clark, James. The Long-term Forest Demographic Analysis, MACRO system.
Colburn, Betsy. Headwater Stream Ecology.
Colburn, Betsy. Vernal Pool Ecology.
Contosta, Alix. Impact of deer and moose on soil carbon, soil respiration and root biomass.
Costantino, Courtney. Amanita vouchering.
D'Amato, Anthony. Climate-adapted red spruce planting.
D'Amato, Anthony. Long-term impacts of hurricane and salvage logging disturbance on the Pisgah Forest.
D'Amato, Anthony. Mechanisms for Resilience in Northern Hardwood and Mixedwood Forests.
Doshas, Alexis. Seed Collection of Common New England Species for Storage and Germination at Native Plant Nursery.
Dunn, Allison. Sequestration of atmospheric carbon dioxide in regenerating New England forests: quantifying pools and constraining fluxes.
Gerlein-Safdi, Cynthia. Collaborative Research: MRA: Dew impacts on ecosystem carbon, energy and water fluxes at continental scale - a synthesis across NEON sites.
Gewirtzman, Jonathan. Listening to the Forest.
Holbrook, Noel Michele. Controls on methane production and release at the Beaver Swamp site.
Holbrook, Noel Michele. Methane production and transport dynamics in the Black Gum Swamp.
Keiser, Ashley. Trends in soil carbon stocks and fluxes in a hemlock stand infested by the hemlock woolly adelgid.
Kuhlman, Michael. NEON Program Field Operations - 2026.
Lawrence, Beth. Using the past, present, and future to investigate the effects of global change agents on boreal tree reproduction.
Lewis, Ann. 3-D Imaging of water storage and transport structures in plants, a pilot project.
Louw, Nicolas. Surveying Penicillium and Aspergillus across Massachusetts.
Marsh, David. A Field Experiment to Determine the Effects of Soil Warming on Vertebrate Ectotherms.
Mitchell, Amir. Natural Antimicrobial Discovery.
Mohan, Jacqueline. Seedling responses to soil moisture, competition, and herbivory.
Nett, Ryan. Biosynthesis of clubmoss alkaloids.
O'Keefe, John. Woody Species Phenology, Prospect Hill Tract, Harvard Forest.
Omura, Mark. Large Museum Specimen Preparation via Natural Processes.
Oswald, Wyatt. Long-term history of New England forests.
Owens, Avalon. A firefly's guide to modern dating: Adaptive strategies for coping with anthropogenic light pollution.
Peters, James. A View from the Land: A Socio-Ecological History New England.
Peters, James. New England Dwellings and Landscapes Revisited.
Rademacher, Tim. Investigation in link between growth and maple sugaring.
Rapp, Joshua. MAPLES Mechanisms of mast-seeding.
Reinmann, Andrew. Interactive Effects of Forest Fragmentation and Climate Change.
Reinmann, Andrew. Response of tree leaf ecophysiological process to forest edge effects and climate.
Spicer, Michelle. Implementing a new standardized survey protocol for understanding herbaceous plant diversity and dynamics in Harvard Forest.
Taylor, Benton. FORWARD: FOrest Responses to Warming, AtmospheRic CO2, and Drought.
Thompson, Jonathan. Evaluating the relationship between leaf phenology and annual growth.
Thompson, Jonathan. Forest-atmosphere exchange in an old hemlock forest.
Thompson, Jonathan. HF EMS flux-tower measurements.
Thompson, Jonathan. Modeling climate change impacts on forest carbon storage.
Tumber-Dávila, Shersingh Joseph. Rooted in efflux: Above- and below-ground processes governing wetland GHG fluxes.
Vadeboncoeur, Matthew. Using a functional trait approach to inform assisted migration for climate adaptation in the Northern Forest Region.
Van Stan, John. Particulates in canopy flowpaths: A missing mass flux at the macrosystem scale?.
Whelan, Mary. Carbonyl sulfide (OCS) observations.
Winnick, Matthew. Stream chemistry carbon dynamics.
Yeo, Seok Min. Drawing the Umwelt: Computational Translation of Non-Human Vision for Climate-Adaptive Landscape Design.