HFR Schoolyard teachers present at Environmental Education Conference

Two teachers from Harvard Forest’s Schoolyard LTER program shared their experiences in schoolyard ecology with participants at the Massachusetts Environmental Education Society’s annual conference in March 2006. As part of their presentation about “Community Investigations and Using the Environment in an Integrating Context,” Mary Gagnon and Kate Bennett shared their experiences in implementing HFR field research protocols at the J.R. Briggs Elementary school in Ashburnham, MA. Ms. Gagnon discussed her participation in the Freshwater Ecology: Vernal Pools study, which is related to Dr. Betsy Colburn’s research at HFR, while Ms. Bennett highlighted her experiences doing the Hemlock Trees and the Pesky Pest: The Woolly Adelgid study that is related to Dr. David Orwig’s work.