Dear colleagues:

You are cordially invited to our 2nd annual Hubbard Brook-Harvard Forest Joint Meeting on March 20th from 9:00 am to 2:30 pm at Harvard Forest as part of our collaborative Public Engagement with Science at LTER Sites project. This meeting will follow on the heels of the annual Harvard Forest Ecology Symposium on March 19th from 9:00 am to 5:15 pm at the Fisher Museum at Harvard Forest. 

Please see details about the Hubbard Brook-Harvard Forest Joint Meeting and the annual Harvard Forest Ecology Symposium below.

We have funding to cover participants' travel expenses to attend these meetings. Hubbard Brook investigators, students, and staff are welcome and encouraged to attend. 

Please RSVP for the Hubbard Brook-Harvard Forest Joint Meeting on March 20 by filling out this brief Google Form.

If you would like to attend the Harvard Forest Ecology Symposium on March 19, please use this separate link: http://harvardforest.fas.harvard.edu/symposium  (Please note, the symposium often reaches capacity but the meeting will be live streamed.)

Lastly, thank you to everyone who has filled out John Besley's survey for the PES @ LTERs project. We've heard that participation so far is a bit low, so please respond to the survey via John's email soon if you can. This survey will help us improve public engagement at Hubbard Brook and Harvard Forest.

Thank you! Please let me know if you have any questions about these upcoming meetings or the project as a whole.

Warm wishes,

Sarah

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As part of the Public Engagement with Science at LTER Sites project, Marissa Weiss from Harvard Forest and I are organizing a "Collaborations Incubator” and a workshop on Faming Science for Engagement. The Framing Science session will feature a talk by Ezra Markowitz, assistant professor of environmental decision-making at UMass Amherst, and we will workshop two public engagement case studies, one from each site.

Harvard Forest and Hubbard Brook investigators, staff, and students are invited to participate on March 20 at Harvard Forest - this is strategically timed to also join our Harvard Forest colleagues in their 30th annual Harvard Forest Symposium on March 19.

Below is the draft agenda for the March 20 joint meeting. 

Please use this separate link to learn more about and RSVP to the March 19th Symposium: http://harvardforest.fas.harvard.edu/symposium

DRAFT AGENDA: Collaborations Incubator & Framing Science for Engagement - A Joint Meeting of Hubbard Brook and Harvard Forest Investigators

Harvard Forest

March 20, 2019 

9:00 a.m. – 2:30 p.m.

9:00 a.m. - 9:30 a.m.:  Continental breakfast and mixer / icebreaker

9:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.: Collaborations Incubator: PES@LTERs project update followed by facilitated small- and full-group discussions about future directions for collaborative research and public engagement at Hubbard Brook and Harvard Forest.

12:00 p.m. – 12:30 p.m.: Lunch

12:30 p.m. – 1:30 p.m.: Words That Change Minds: Framing as a Strategic Tactic for Science Communication: invited guest lecture from Ezra Markowitz, FrameWorks Institute Fellow and assistant professor of environmental decision-making at UMass Amherst (with introduction by John Besley, professor of public engagement at Michigan State University and PES@LTERs co-PI)

1:30 p.m. – 2:30 p.m.: Framing in Action for Inspiring Engagement: Case Study 1 - Changing our Nitrogen Story, Case Study 2: Forest Pests / Resilient Forests: Discussion and group workshop about how we frame research stories from Hubbard Brook and Harvard Forest.

2:30 p.m.: Adjourn