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Making agricultural ecology research information more accessible to its stakeholders and the interested public is the aim of the newly launched Kellogg Biological Station (KBS) Long Term Ecological Research (LTER) program website.

Kate Bennett, a 5th grade teacher at the John R. Briggs Elementary School in Ashburnham, Massachusetts, knows a lot about LTER. For the past eight years, she and her students have participated in the Harvard Forest Schoolyard Program. She has also completed four summer research experiences at the Forest with funding from the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), and has even co-authored a scientific paper.

The Joint Genome Institute of the U.S. Department of Energy recently granted Harvard Forest LTER co-PIs Jeffrey Blanchard (UMass), Kristen DeAngelis (UMass), Linda van Diepen (U. of New Hampshire), Serita Frey (U. of New Hampshire), and Jerry Melillo (MBL) a Community Sequencing Program award to aid in the study soil microbial changes over time.  With this facilities award, DOE will pay the costs of DNA/RNA library preparation, sequencing, and basic computational processing for three terabases of metagenomic (community DNA) and metatranscriptomic (community RNA) data gathered from Harvard Forest soils. 

A study by scientists at the Central Arizona-Phoenix (CAP) Long Term Ecological Research (LTER) site found that residential yards in urban areas with native ve

The Niwot Ridge (NWT) Long Term Ecological Research program is sponsoring a new award project in the Himalayas.

The USA Science & Engineering Festival is a huge event aimed at the general public, to highlight science, mathematics, and technology.  Held periodically at the Convention Center in Washington, DC., the Festival features speakers, performances, exhibitions, and booths.  This year, the Ecological Society of America (ESA) sponsored a booth, and the theme was urban ecology.  Steward Pickett, Lead PI of the Baltimore Ecosystem Study (BES) LTER and President of ESA, spent several stints at the booth interacting with visitors.  The booth featured some live exhibits, including plants that could be found in cities and suburbs, and a terrarium containing forest floor plants, animals, and structure.  

On June 8, 2012, a shovel thrust into the ground at the Harvard Forest (HFR) marked the dawn of construction for the 30-year, continental-scale National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON).

A new HFR video series features studies ranging from butterfly population dynamics to public health.

The vast majority of climate scientists agree that our climate is changing and that human activity plays a part in it. Why does the American public still doubt these facts?

As part of a hands-on course in global change research, six science journalists participating in the Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) Logan Science Journalism Program spent three days at the Harvard Forest LTER in May, working alongside scientists to count Hemlock Woolly Adelgid, measure tree seedlings in herbivore exclosures, quantify carbon dioxide fluxes from a soil warming experiment, and core down to ice-aged sediments in the Black Gum Swamp.