Tue Oct 27 · 7:30pm
New England Forests: Insights From Ancient Pollen Preserved in Lake Sediments
Wyatt Oswald, Professor of Environmental Science at Emerson College and a Research Associate at the Harvard Forest, traces 14,000 years of change in New England’s forests through pollen preserved in ordinary lake sediments. He explains the methods of paleoecology, what decades of New England research have found about forests responding to climate, and the lessons for conservation and forest management under present and future climate change.
$10