[HubbardBrookISE] abstartc submission to NH Water and Watersheds meeting, March 18, 2016

[Joseph Staples]

Lindsey,

Very cool.   Hopefully this is a go.

Thanks
Joe

On Thu, Jan 7, 2016 at 3:39 PM, Rustad, Lindsey -FS <lrustad at 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!
>
>
>
> (175 word max)
>
> 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.
>
>
>
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>
> *Lindsey Rustad, PhD Research Ecologist*
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