Hubbard Brook Quarterly Project Meeting – October 2025
2025-10-22 | Zoom
Final Agenda-QPM-Oct 22 ’25
10:00 – 10:10 Welcome & Introductions (Christy Goodale, Lynn Christenson)
Morning: Planning for Long-term Research with Limited Funds
(Peter Groffman, Pam Templer)
10:10 – 10:25 NSF funding–what we should do with it and when
10:25 – 10:55 Proposal writing plans (5-minute updates)

– HBNO (Pam Templer)
– APE (Jeff Garnas)
– Forest change (John Battles)
– Exudates (Angela Possinger)
– Birds (Mike Webster)
– Ca-rich silicates (Christy Goodale)

10:55 – 12:00 Long-term data maintenance & succession plans (5-minute talks)

– Trace gases, microbial biomass and activity, soil moisture and temperature (Peter Groffman)
– Vegetation, foliar chemistry, litterfall (Nat Cleavitt)
– Forest floor, soil pits, soil solution chemistry (Chris Johnson, Charley Driscoll)
– Birds (Webster)
– Mammals (Lynn Christenson)
– Insects (Matt Ayres)
– Stream chemistry and biology (Emily Bernhardt, Chris Solomon)
– Flux tower, hydromet, phenology, groundwater/hydropedology (Mark Green, Amey Bailey)
– MELNHE (Ruth Yanai)
– CCASE (Pam Templer)
– Soil temperature/moisture/CO2 (Alix Contosta)
– Salamanders (Winsor Lowe)
– Data (Mary Martin)

12:00 – 12:30 Lunch break
Afternoon: Current and Future Partnerships with Experimental Forests
12:30 – 12:40 Introductory remarks (Alix Contosta)
12:40 – 12:50 From long-term research to experimental forests: Connecting networks
(Susannah Lerman)
12:50 – 1:05 Open access, stable funding: A freemium path for forest inventories (John Battles)
1:05 – 1:20 Small mammal population dynamics and ecosystem functions in the northern forest
(Rebecca Rowe)
1:20 – 1:35 Experimental forest partnerships: Perspectives from an LTER veteran who’s spent
years swatting mosquitoes in Bartlett (Scott Ollinger)
1:35 – 2:00 Discussion: How can we strengthen partnerships with other experimental forests?
(Facilitator: Alix Contosta)
2:00 – 2:15 COS Business (Christy Goodale, Lynn Christenson)
2:15 – 2:45 Research Advisory Committee discussion: Proposed moss-removal experiment

Hubbard Brook Quarterly Project Meeting - January 2026
2026-01-08 - 2026-01-09 | The Environmental Cooperative at the Vassar Barns, 50 Vassar Farm Ln, Poughkeepsie, NY, United States
Topic: Internal mid-term review (in-person at Vassar College)

Organizers: Peter Groffman and Pam Templer

Hubbard Brook Annual Cooperators’ Meeting – July 8-9, 2026
2026-07-08 - 2026-07-09

Hubbard Brook Quarterly Project Meeting – July 10, 2026
2026-07-10
