Worcester, MA view from NELF Explorer
Harvard Forest Webinar
The NELF Explorer team at Harvard Forest is hosting a monthly discussion group via Zoom to discuss how to apply scenarios and indicators of change to review and update conservation plans, strategies, and actions. The next meeting will be on Tuesday June 16, 2020 at 11:30am.

News

  • Yale Climate Connections
    Map shows that premature deaths increase in many states under an inside the fenceline carbon standard
    Science Policy Exchange co-founder Kathy Fallon Lambert is quoted in an article by Yale Climate Connections about the Environmental Protection Agency's new Affordable Clean Energy rule. The new rule would hardly change emissions, with a small reduction of less than 1% beyond what would likely happen without any policy at all.
  • New York Times Magazine
    "Chestnut" by Peewubblewoo is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 2.0
    Science Policy Exchange project leader Gary Lovett of the Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies is quoted in an article entitled, "Can Genetic Engineering Bring Back the American Chestnut?" by Gabriel Popkin, in the New York Times Magazine. 
  • Hubbard Brook Research Foundation
    Image showing temperature record at Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest
    Hubbard Brook Research Foundation, a founding Science Policy Exchange partner, has a rich set of virtual learning resources. They invite teachers, students, and parents to use the resources, which they have compiled all in one place.
  • Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
    Fishing on a pier on the coast in Massachusetts
    A science brief for journalists co-authored by Science Policy Exchange co-founders Kathy Fallon Lambert and Charley Driscoll reports that the Environmental Protection Agency is threatening to unravel federal rules that are reducing mercury pollution.
  • Washington Post
    Smokestacks with smoke at the John E. Amos coal-fired power plant in Winfield, West Virginia
    Science Policy Exchange co-founder Kathy Fallon Lambert is quoted in an article in the Washington Post, about the Environmental Protection Agency's plan to  unravel a rule that has cut emissions of mercury and other toxins from power plants.
  • LTER Network
    LTER Network Logo
    Science Policy Exchange consortium includes four associated National Science Foundation Long Term Ecological Research (LTER) sites. The LTER Executive Board voted in January to change the status of the LTER Diversity Committee to make it a representative committee, with a named individual designated to participate from each site.