Dear colleagues:

I am looking forward to seeing many of you at Harvard Forest later this month for the 2nd annual Harvard Forest-Hubbard Brook Joint Meeting on March 20th at Harvard Forest. A detailed description of the program follows below.

As a reminder, we have funding to cover travel costs for investigators, staff, and students to attend this meeting. Please be in touch if you have any questions.

Thank you!

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 include our Hubbard Brook colleagues in the Symposium on March 19.

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

RSVP to the March 20th Joint Meeting here. 

[The March 19th Symposium is now full - for more information see the symposium website: http://harvardforest.fas.harvard.edu/symposium ]

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

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: Group discussion about how we frame research stories from Hubbard Brook and Harvard Forest, featuring examples from both sites including: Changing our Nitrogen Story (Hubbard Brook) and Humans, Forest Pests, and Climate Change - communicating about threats to our forest, and forest resilience (Harvard Forest).

2:30 p.m.: Adjourn