Harvard Forest Research Projects 2025

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.
Anderson-Teixeira , Kristina. How is spring warming altering temperate deciduous forest carbon allocation?.
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. Prospect Hill Forest Plots.
Barker Plotkin, Audrey. Vegetation Dynamics in the Hemlock Removal Experiment.
Barney, William. Hyperspectral Assessment of Vegetation Plots.
Bhatnagar, Jennifer. Transplanting forest soil to aim at the improvement of urban tree health.
Boose, Emery. Collecting and Using Provenance in R.
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.
Boose, Emery. The impacts of future hurricanes under climate change.
Boutt, David. Subsurface Storage Changes in Upland Environments.
Boynton, Primrose. Saccharomyces in Harvard Forest soil warming and nitrogen plots.
Brinkerhoff, Craig. Monitoring headwater stream dynamics in the Harvard Forest.
Brown, Luke. Extended evaluation of near-infrared digital hemispherical photography for estimating leaf and wood area index during leaf-on conditions.
Burr, Nat. Genetic variation in populations of a data-sensitive species across New England: mapping the genome of a rare native forest understory plant.
Burton, Andrew. Effects of rate-biomass tradeoffs on the relationship of ecosystem root respiration to nutrient needs.
Burton, Andrew. Response of fine root respiration rates to long-term soil warming in hardwood forests.
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.
Contosta, Alix. Trends in Soil Carbon Stocks in a Hemlock Stand Infected by Hemlock Woolly Adelgid at Harvard Forest since 2015.
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.
DeAngelis, Kristen. Cultivation of dominant soil microbes.
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.
Everbach, Sophie. Reaction Wood Tradeoffs: Field Study.
Faison, Edward. The Role of Moose and Deer Browsing in Disturbed and Undisturbed Forests of Southern New England.
Franklin, Jonathan. Total-column solar-absorption measurements of CO2, CH4, and CO..
Frey, Serita. Chronic Nitrogen Amendment Plots.
Fulweiler, Robinson W.. Long-term Dissolved Inorganic Nutrient Fluxes from Harvard Forest.
Gewirtzman, Jonathan. Listening to the Forest.
Gewirtzman, Jonathan. Measuring tree stem methane emissions with novel, low-cost automated chambers.
Harden, Vanessa. Designing the Fungal City.
Hart, Clarisse. Decolonizing STEM and Stewardship: Indigenous Community Partnerships at Harvard Forest.
Hicks Pries, Caitlin. Depth-resolved soil respiration at SWaN.
Hoopes, Martha . Plant invasion dynamics at Harvard Farm.
Hunt, Shirley. Solargraphy at Harvard Forest.
Johnson, Daniel. Resolving the multi-scale drivers of tree mortality from field and remote sensing data on co-located ForestGEO-NEON sites.
Kaufman, Matthew. Soil physical and microbial variation along an urbanization gradient.
Keiser, Ashley. Eastern Hemlock root resource allocation response to Hemlock Woolly Adelgid.
Keiser, Ashley. Examining the role of soil physicochemical properties on hemlock mortality after HWA invasion at the Harvard Forest.
Keiser, Ashley. The Role of Plant-Soil Feedbacks on Shifting Soil Carbon Cycles in Decaying Eastern Hemlock Forest.
Kuhlman, Michael. NEON Program Field Operations - 2025.
Marsh, David. A Field Experiment to Determine the Effects of Soil Warming on Vertebrate Ectotherms.
Matthes, Jackie. Biomass and ecological measurements to complement carbon-flux observations.
Matthes, Jackie. Methane dynamics across Prospect Hill.
Metzler, Paul. Linking macroecology and traits to predict mycorrhizal fungal dispersal.
Mohan, Jacqueline. Seedling responses to soil moisture, competition, and herbivory.
Munger, J. William. Forest-atmosphere exchange in an old hemlock forest.
Munger, J. William. HF EMS flux-tower measurements.
Naughton, Hannah. Assessing the Generation of Anoxic Microsites and Anaerobic Microbial Processes in Hurricane-Impacted Forests.
Nett, Ryan. Biosynthesis of clubmoss alkaloids.
O'Keefe, John. Woody Species Phenology, Prospect Hill Tract, Harvard Forest.
Ollinger, Scott. Investigating drought and cold resilience of northeastern US trees to inform ecological modeling and forest management practices.
Ollinger, Scott. The influence of canopy structure and foliar chemistry on remote sensing observations.
Omura, Mark. Large Museum Specimen Preparation via Natural Processes.
Orwig, David. Ash plot network in southern New England.
Orwig, David. Harvard Forest Mega-plot: survey and initial census.
Orwig, David. Long-term vegetation dynamics in hemlock forests of 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.
Oswald, Wyatt. Long-term history of New England forests.
Peters, James. A View from the Land: A Socio-Ecological History New England.
Raff, Jonathan. Understanding Emission Sources and Sinks of Nitrous Acid in North American Forests.
Reinmann, Andrew. Interactive Effects of Forest Fragmentation and Climate Change.
Reinmann, Andrew. Response of tree leaf ecophysiological process to forest edge effects and climate.
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.
Taylor, Benton. Ecological Drivers of Dual Mycorrhizal Colonization.
Taylor, Benton. FORWARD: FOrest Responses to Warming, AtmospheRic CO2, and Drought.
Thompson, Jonathan. Build on current work in modeling the effects of nature-based climate solutions to enhance forest carbon stored on New England landscapes using the Harvard Forest ForestGEO plot.
Thompson, Jonathan. Designing Incentives for Private Landowners in Maine to Conserve Late-Successional/Old-Growth Forests.
Thompson, Jonathan. Evaluating the relationship between leaf phenology and annual growth.
Thompson, Jonathan. Future scenarios.
Thompson, Jonathan. Modeling climate change impacts on forest carbon storage.
Van Stan, John. Particulates in canopy flowpaths: A missing mass flux at the macrosystem scale?.
Whelan, Mary. Carbonyl sulfide (OCS) observations.
Yang, Xi. Forest Structural Complexity across northeastern America.
Zhou, Yi Lin. Comparing urban and native habitat ant colony behaviors.