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Professor of Environmental Science Richard Bowden coauthored a presentation, “Twenty Years of Litter and Root Manipulations: Insights into Multi-Decadal Soil Organic Matter Dynamics at the Harvard Forest,” at the annual Harvard Forest Research Symposium. The presentation, with coauthors from three other institutions, summarizes a 20-year study investigating the ability of forest soils to mitigate climate

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Professor Liz Olson chaired the session “Defining New Spaces of Healthcare Practice” at the joint annual meetings of the Society for Medical Anthropology and Society for Applied Anthropology, during which she also presented her original research paper “Destination Apothecary: Some Observations on the Practice of Homeopathy in Contemporary Rural Mexico.” At this same conference in

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Assistant Professor of Environmental Science Mark Neff recently published a paper with Brendon Larson (University of Waterloo, Ontario) in Biological Conservation exploring the limitations of science in settling a conservation biology dispute about a climate change adaptation strategy. Their research reveals that an ongoing dispute in the conservation biology literature about assisted colonization is fundamentally

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Visiting Assistant Professor of Environmental Science Shaunna Barnhart, Assistant Professor of Environmental Science Kate Darby, Taylor Hinton ’14, Hillary Fenrich ’14, and Abigail Dunegan ’15 attended the fourth annual Dimensions of Political Ecology conference February 27 to March 1 at the University of Kentucky in Lexington. Taylor presented her research “‘Coming Down from the Hill’:

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On December 5, six Environmental Science students — Emilie Hickox ’15, Abigail Dunegan ’15, Dibyajyoti Mukherjee ’14, William Tolliver ’14, Pasquale DiFrancesco ’15, and Jessica Stickel ’14 — along with faculty mentor Visiting Assistant Professor of Environmental Science Shaunna Barnhart attended the Student Symposium on the Environment at Westminster College in New Wilmington. The symposium

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Assistant Professor of Environmental Science TJ Eatmon received a 2014 Carnegie Science Award in the category of University/Post Secondary Educator. The program honors individuals and organizations from more than 15 categories who have distinguished themselves by making unparalleled contributions to science and technology in various disciplines. The award will be presented during the 18th Annual

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Professor of Environmental Science Richard Bowden co-authored a paper titled “Soil respiration in a northeastern US temperate forest: a 22-year synthesis” in the journal Ecosphere. The work, conducted at the Harvard Forest (MA) Long-Term Ecological Research Site, describes how forest ecology and management, and actual and simulated climatic change, affect seasonal and inter-annual variations in

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