[HubbardBrook] Invitation to participate in HB ash protection study

[Matthew P. Ayres]

Hi Hubbard Brook community,
The HB Research Approval Committee<https://hubbardbrook.org/about> (RAC) will meet in October to consider proposals received by 15 September. Jeff Garnas and I invite your participation in proposing an experimental study of ecosystem effects of emerald ash borer by protecting strategically selected groves of ash trees via injection of emamectin benzoate.

Here is a Planning forum for ash protection experiment at Hubbard Brook<https://docs.google.com/document/d/19lAc59o1b1L-8ImMfl0OQlbhO8CAe4rKMuB9yhyb_EA/edit?usp=sharing>. You are invited to add text, suggestions, and comments. You are invited to participate as an investigator in the RAC proposal. You are also invited to participate in a proposal to NSF RAPID if we get approval from the RAC and support from our friends at the Ranger District, whose help we will need with NEPA applications and other things. You are also invited to communicate via email if that is easier.

Jeff and I will be talking next week with a colleague at Arborjet<https://arborjet.com/> about the possibility of them partnering with us to provide expertise and perhaps reduced costs on treatment materials.

Thanks to the many of you who have already engaged with the concept of an experimental study that could provide new knowledge in the fashion of other large scale studies that have been famously conducted at Hubbard Brook.

Best wishes,
Matt

Matthew P. Ayres (h/h)
Professor of Biological Sciences<https://biology.dartmouth.edu/>, Co-Chair Graduate Program in Ecology, Evolution, Environment & Society<http://sites.dartmouth.edu/EEES/>, and Associate Director Institute of Arctic Studies<https://dickey.dartmouth.edu/programs/arctic-environment>
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