On Thu, Jan 7, 2016 at 3:39 PM, Rustad, Lindsey -FS <lrustad@fs.fed.us> wrote:

Dear ISE,

I submitted the following abstract on our behalf to the New Hampshire Water and Watersheds meeting (https://www.plymouth.edu/center-for-the-environment/2016-nh-water-watershed-conference/) .  This is a meeting of regional land managers and environmental practitioners, and should be a good group to network for our round table.  If invited to present, I would discuss ice storms in general, the work around the 1998 ice storm, and outline our project with preliminary results from Katherine’s work, and perhaps the resample plots.  It’s an opportunity to get the word out!

 

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Why Ice Storm Aren't Cool: New Research at the Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest

 

Ice storms are powerful winter weather events that cause major disruption to forests, towns and cities throughout the northeast.  Current research suggests that ice storms will increase in frequency and severity with climate change.  Although these storms are most recognized for their catastrophic short-term damage due to branch breakage and toppling of trees under heavy ice loads, they also have longer-lasting legacies on forest growth, species composition, forest pests and pathogens, water quality, and fire fuel loads.  Despite their influential role in water and watersheds, our understanding of ice storms and their impacts remains limited, largely because these storms remain hard to predict and scientists don’t know when or where they will next occur.  We report here on a new study where scientists are using a suite of tools at the Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest, NH, including creating artificial ice storms, to study the possibility that ice storms will increase in frequency and severity over the coming years, and the short and longer term impacts of these storms on northern hardwood forests. 

 

Lindsey Rustad, PhD Research Ecologist Forest Service Northern Research Station p: 603-397-7406 c: 603-397-7406 lrustad@fs.fed.us 271 Mast Ave Durham, NH 03824 www.fs.fed.us Caring for the land and serving people

 

 

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