Award Abstract #0452254
REU Site: Harvard Forest Program in Forest Ecology: Multi-Scale Investigations of a Forested Ecosystem in a Changing World

NSF Org:	DBI Division of Biological Infrastructure
Initial Amendment Date:	March 8, 2005
Latest Amendment Date:	March 19, 2009
Award Number:	0452254
Award Instrument:	Continuing grant
Program Manager:	Sally E. O'Connor DBI Division of Biological Infrastructure BIO Directorate for Biological Sciences
Start Date:	March 15, 2005
Expires:	February 28, 2011 (Estimated)
Awarded Amount to Date:	$748648
Investigator(s):	Aaron Ellison aellison@fas.harvard.edu (Principal Investigator) Kathleen Donohue (Co-Principal Investigator)
Sponsor:	Harvard University 1350 MASSACHUSETTS AVE Cambridge, MA 02138 617/495-5501
NSF Program(s):	Ethics & Values of SET, REESE, RSCH EXPER FOR UNDERGRAD SITES
Field Application(s):
Program Reference Code(s):	SMET, OTHR, 9251, 9250, 9178, 9177, 0000
Program Element Code(s):	7915, 7625, 1139

ABSTRACT

ABSTRACT

The goals of the Harvard Forest REU Site in Forest Ecology are to (1) Enhance the ability of students to undertake high-quality interdisciplinary research in a collaborative, collegial environment; (2) Encourage students to link fundamental and applied issues in their research; and (3) Cultivate the next generation of ecological scientists and educators that reflects the diversity of backgrounds and experiences of students in the United States. Students are involved in a summer research program with a central focus on the ecology of invasive species, through which they will learn how a single broad topic can be approached in depth from different scientific directions and with a variety of methods and techniques. Students interact with each other and with leading scientists from many institutions, all of whom conduct research at the Harvard Forest Long-Term ecological research site. Students and their mentors conduct investigations on a diversity of taxa - from microbes to forest trees - using tools and techniques of genetic analysis, plant and animal physiology, population biology, experimental terrestrial and aquatic community ecology, and ecosystems analysis and modeling. The Harvard Forest Summer Research Program recruits a diverse applicant pool, with particular emphasis on students from cultural and ethnic groups that are traditionally underrepresented in scientific careers. In addition to research, students attend lectures and workshops to enhance their understanding of forest ecology and to improve their verbal and written communications skills. Student research is disseminated widely, as posters and oral presentations at regional and national scientific meetings and through publications in the peer-reviewed literature. The Program incorporates an ethics component that introduces students to ethical issues. Particular attention will be paid to the experiences of students from groups that are underrepresented in scientific careers. More information is available at http://harvardforest.fas.harvard.edu/education/reu/reu.html, or from Edythe Ellin, Director of Administration, Harvard Forest, PO Box 68, Petersham, Massachusetts, 01366; Telephone 978-724-3302; email ellin@fas.harvard.edu.

PUBLICATIONS PRODUCED AS A RESULT OF THIS RESEARCH

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Collins, Bridget*, William Sobczak, and Elizabeth Colburn.  "Subsurface flowpaths in a hemlock-dominated headwater stream harbor diverse macroinvertebrate community,"  Wetlands,  v.27,  2008,  p. 319.

Ellison, A.M. S. Record, A. Arguello*, and N.J. Gotelli.  "Rapid Inventory of the Ant Assemblage in a Temperate Hardwood Forest: Species Composition and Assessment of Sampling Methods,"  Environmental Entomology,  v.36,  2007,  p. 766.

Hadley, J.; Kuzeja, P.; Daley, M.; Phillips, H.; Mulcahy*, T.; Singh*, S..  "Water use and carbon exchange of red oak- and eastern hemlock dominated forests in the northeastern USA: implications for ecosystem-level effects of hemlock woolly adelgid,"  Tree Physiology,  v.28,  2008,  p. 615.

Preisser, E.L., Lodge, A.G., Orwig, D.A., and J.S. Elkinton.  "Range expansion and population dynamics of co-occurring invasive herbivores,"  Biological Invasions,  v.10,  2008,  p. 201.

Rowell*, T. J. and W. V. Sobczak.  "Will stream periphyton respond to increases in light following forecasted regional hemlock mortality?,"  Journal of Freshwater Ecology,  v.23,  2008,  p. 33.

Sack, L., E. M. Dietrich*, C. M. Streeter*, D. Sánchez-Gómez*, N. M. Holbrook.  "Leaf palmate venation and vascular redundancy confer tolerance of hydraulic disruption,"  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences,  v.105,  2008,  p. 1567.


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