Harvard Forest Research Projects 2025

Conservation and Management

Almazan, Fabian. The Sound Truck.
Andersen, Jeremy. Monitoring the spread of the invasive winter moth and the formation of a stable hybrid zone with the native Bruce spanworm.
Bhatnagar, Jennifer. Transplanting forest soil to aim at the improvement of urban tree health.
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. Forest and Biodiversity Experiment.
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.
Contosta, Alix. Impact of deer and moose on soil carbon, soil respiration and root biomass.
Contosta, Alix. Trends in soil carbon stocks following conversion from intensively managed grassland to grazed pasture.
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.
Faison, Edward. The Role of Moose and Deer Browsing in Disturbed and Undisturbed Forests of Southern New England.
Hart, Clarisse. Decolonizing STEM and Stewardship: Indigenous Community Partnerships at Harvard Forest.
Hoopes, Martha . Plant invasion dynamics at Harvard Farm.
Johnson, Daniel. Resolving the multi-scale drivers of tree mortality from field and remote sensing data on co-located ForestGEO-NEON sites.
Ollinger, Scott. Investigating drought and cold resilience of northeastern US trees to inform ecological modeling and forest management practices.
Orwig, David. Ash plot network in southern New England.
Orwig, David. Supporting Mature and Old Growth Forest Mapping with the Global Ecosystem Dynamics Investigation (GEDI) Waveform Lidar.
Orwig, David. The legacy of large-scale disturbances on the long-term development of temperate, mesic forests.
Schmitz, Oswald . Adaptation and Trophic Resiliency (aka The Goldenrod Project).
Siddig, Ahmed. Exploring Terrestrial Salamanders in the Changing Climate and Fragmented Landscapes.
Stinson, Kristina. Long term ecology and impacts of Alliaria petiolata.
Thompson, Jonathan. Designing Incentives for Private Landowners in Maine to Conserve Late-Successional/Old-Growth Forests.
Thompson, Jonathan. Future scenarios.