Forests, Carbon, and Climate: From Ecosystems to Policy

Harvard FAS

Forests are among our most powerful allies in the fight against climate change—yet turning that potential into policy is one of the hardest problems in environmental science. This experiential course puts you at the center of that challenge. Each Friday, students travel to the Harvard Forest in Petersham, MA, one of the world's longest-running ecological research sites, to work directly with eddy covariance towers, long-term forest inventory plots, and active global change experiments.…