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Thank you for visiting the HBES website.

We hope you have enjoyed the tour and have a better appreciation for ecological research and science at the HBEF. We would encourage you to visit frequently, as there is always more to learn.

The development of this introductory tour and many of the teacher & student resources on this website was funded by the National Science Foundation LTER Program, as part of an education supplement to the Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest LTER, awarded to Dr. Timothy Fahey, Department of Natural Resources, Cornell University. Adam Welman wrote and designed the website.



Acknowledgments

I would like to thank Ian Halm and Amey Bailey of the USDA Forest Service for providing many of the images in the Introduction, and for offering generous amounts of advice, information, and ideas. I also thank Kathy Fallon Lambert for her efforts to develop educational resources and outreach at Hubbard Brook. I am especially grateful to Marianne Krasny of Cornell University for her support, comments, and guidance.

I appreciate the useful comments of the website reviewers: Don Buso, Linda Tompkins (Cornell University), Rich Phillips, Jess Tabolt, Chris Eager, Geri Tierney, Ellen Denny, Beverly Tedeschi (Plymouth High School, Plymouth, NH), Tom Siccama, Dick Holmes, Tim Fahey, Kathy Fallon Lambert, and Charley Driscoll. Additional thanks go to: Ralph Perron and Matt Tansey, as well as everyone who contributed to the "Meet the Scientist" section. As chairperson of the subcommittee responsible for HBEF website review, Peter Groffman has been incredibly helpful. Finally, thanks to Kate Macneale for reviewing the site several times and for offering constructive suggestions on many walks home.

Many of the data used in this tour were obtained by scientists of the Hubbard Brook Ecosystem Study; this tour has not been reviewed by all of those scientists. The HBEF is operated and maintained by the Northeastern Research Station, USDA, Newtown Square, Pennsylvania.


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