Harvard Forest - Harvard University

Petersham, Massachusetts

http://harvardforest.fas.harvard.edu/

May 31 - August 19, 2005

Harvard Forest offers an exciting program for up to 30 undergraduate

students and recent graduates to collaborate with scientists conducting

ecological investigations for 12 weeks during the summer of 2005.

Program Description: Each student will participate in an on going

research project with a researcher from Harvard University, The

Ecosystems Research Center of the Marine Biology Laboratory, Woods Hole

Research Center among other institutions. Responsibilities may include

field sampling, laboratory studies, data analysis and scientific writing.

In addition, students attend weekly seminars and workshops given by

nationally known scientists on topics regarding ecosystem research, career

planning, ethics of research, and graduate school preparation. At the end

of the summer, students will develop their research results, prepare an

abstract, and present their findings at a student research symposium.

Academic credit may be arranged with the student's home institution.

Research Projects: Harvard Forest research focuses on the effects of

natural and human disturbances on forest ecosystems, including global

warming, hurricanes, forest harvesting and invasive organisms on forested

ecosystems. Researchers come from many disciplines and specific projects

center on population and community ecology, paleoecology, land-use

history, aquatic ecology, biogeochemistry, ecophysiology and

atmosphere-biosphere exchanges. Summer 2005 projects details and

researchers are detailed at the Harvard Forest website

http://harvardforest.fas.harvard.edu/education/reu/reu.html.

Harvard Forest: The Forest is located in central Massachusetts about 70

miles west of Boston. The 3000-acre site lies in the Transition Hardwood

White Pine Hemlock forest region, and includes a variety of forests and

wetlands. Facilities include greenhouses, herbarium, computer laboratory,

library, archives, the Fisher Museum of Forestry and laboratories for

nutrient analysis, physiological and population ecology, tree-ring and

pollen analysis. More information about the Forest is available at

http://harvardforest.fas.harvard.edu/