Site Number/Name: Harvard Forest (HFR)

 

GFL No.:

                           

    Name: Harvard Forest (HFR)

                           

    State, Country: Massachusetts, USA                   

 

Priority: 1

 

 

 

Site designation(s): HFR/LTER

 

 

Other sponsoring/interested agencies, if any: Department of Energy (National Institute for Global Environmental Change), U.S. Department of Agriculture, and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation

                             

 

Location and size:

USGS Quad                                     

Center: 42.5, -72.2

 

NE corner:

SE corner:

SW corner:

NW corner:

 

                           

Center elevation:

 

     Size (N-S x E-W):

 

 

Resource to be monitored:          

Long-term climate change, disturbance history and vegetation dynamics; comparison of community, population, and plant architectural responses to human and natural disturbance; forest-atmosphere trace gas fluxes; organic matter accumulation, decomposition and mineralization; element cycling, fine root dynamics and forest microbiology

 

 

Detailed description, management issues (e.g. ecosystem represented):

Eastern deciduous forest.

 

 

Frequency and time(s) of collection:                              [six-week window]

 

                              [seasonally: 4 x year in Jan, Mar, Jun, Sept]

 

 

Resolution/scale:

 

Special characteristics (spectral values, thermal anomalies, underwater/ground, etc.):

 

 

Existing maps of area (digital?): GIS data

 

MEDEA sponsor (active/passive): 

 

Sponsoring agency:                              National Science Foundation (NSF)

 

NSF agency point of contact:                              [Alan M. Gaines, Scott L. Collins]

 

NSF site point of contact (current security clearance, if any):

 

               [John Vande Castle,  Security Clearance - YES