The 25th annual Harvard Forest LTER/Ecology Symposium brought more than 100 researchers, students, educators, and staff to the Harvard Forest for a range of presentations by Harvard Forest staff and collaborators:
- 20+ years of LTER data on soil microbes, organic matter dynamics, and atmospheric carbon exchange
- 75+ years of permanent plot data on tree growth and mortality, land-use, and soils
- improving data provenance
- a new Schoolyard Ecology research protocol
- post-clearcut carbon dynamics
- the new NEON infrastructure at Harvard Forest
- a stakeholder-driven landscape scenarios research project
- the use of stable isotopes in carbon flux measurements
An afternoon poster session, plus a lunchtime working group on scaling up HFR’s Massachusetts land scenarios project, rounded out the day.
Talks were live-streamed, adding approximately 40 listeners to the event audience.
Recorded talks are available at http://harvardforest.fas.harvard.edu/symposium.