On July 9, 2019, Hubbard Brook hosted its first ever live storytelling event: The Moss. Nine Hubbard Brook community members shared personal stories on the theme of "Unexpected Encounters."
Listen to each of the stories by clicking the links below:
- Peter Martin, outgoing chair of the Hubbard Brook Research Foundation's Board Of Trustees, finds Hubbard Brook hundreds of miles from home
- Charley Driscoll, chair of the Hubbard Brook Research Foundation and environmental engineer at Syracuse University, learns a lesson from a giant in the field
- Introduction
- Sydney Pierce, daughter of Hubbard Brook Ecosystem Study co-founder Robert Pierce, recalls childhood summers at Hubbard Brook
- Ian Halm, Hubbard Brook's site manager, has a run-in with a moose
- Ashley Lang, a graduate student in the Ecology, Evolution, Environment and Society program at Darmouth, gets more than she bargained for
- Amey Bailey, USDA Forest Service forestry technician, reminisces about playing tennis with Hubbard Brook Ecosystem Study co-founder Herb Bormann
- Audience submissions
- Peter Groffman, a microbial ecologist at the Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies, finds
- Lynn Christenson, a biologist at Vassar College, spends a snowy day deep in the woods
- Gene Likens, co-founder of the Hubbard Brook Ecosystem Study, on Mirror Lake's connection to the center of the Earth