Hubbard Brook Ecosystem Study

Hubbard Brook Annual Cooperators' Meeting - 2025
2025-07-09 - 2025-07-10 | Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest, 234 Mirror Lake Road, North Woodstock, New Hampshire
Date
July 9-10, 2025

Venue
The U.S. Forest Service Northern Research Station at Hubbard Brook will be the venue for:

the Annual Cooperators’ Meeting (July 9-10)
the Barn Dinner (July 9)
the Field Trips (July 10)
the Quarterly Project Meeting (July 11)

Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest
U.S. Forest Service Northern Research Station
Robert S. Pierce Laboratory
234 Mirror Lake Road
North Woodstock, NH 03262

Registration
>> Not yet registered? REGISTER HERE! You will then be directed to the payment portal via the registration form. * Special Note: The registration form still shows Plymouth State/Merrill Place Conference Center as the venue for the two-day Annual Cooperators’ Meeting. Please ignore this. We are not holding the meeting at PSU this year!

>> Already registered for yourself and/or others but have not yet paid? Use this Hubbard Brook Meetings-Payment Form.>> Not attending but paying for others? Use this Hubbard Brook Meetings-Payment Form. And please make sure everyone in your group also submits a registration form (so we have accurate attendee numbers).

Deadline Extension

We are extending the deadline to June 13th — for registrations, talk sign-ups, and payments.

Lodging

There is no lodging available at PSU, as we are not using the conference center.
For anyone interested in on-site lodging at Hubbard Brook, limited options may be available at Pleasant View Farm and Mirror Lake. All rooms are double-occupancy or more. Payment must be received in advance to hold the space. For more information and to make a reservation, email Brenda McCartney at bmccartney@hubbardbrookfoundation.org or Dayna De La Cruz at ddelacruz@hubbardbrookfoundation.org.

Quarterly Project Meeting July 11, 2025 (Agenda to follow)
Topic: Review of synthesis topics, with a focus on “future forests” and the effects of beech leaf disease
Organizers: Pam Templer and Peter Groffman

Hubbard Brook Quarterly Project Meeting - July 2025
2025-07-11 | Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest, 234 Mirror Lake Road, North Woodstock, New Hampshire
Topic: Review of synthesis topics, with a focus on “future forests” and the effects of beech leaf disease
Organizers: Pam Templer and Peter Groffman

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 Quarterly Project Meeting - April 16, 2026
2026-04-16 10:00 - 15:00 (America/New_York) | Virtual
Hubbard Brook Quarterly Project Meeting
Thursday, April 16, 2026
10:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m. (possible earlier adjournment)
Topic: Revisiting the Energy Budget for Hubbard Brook
Organizers: Mark Green, Matt Ayres, Caitlin Hicks Pries
Virtual via Zoom

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
