Student's Homepage


 

 

Partridge Berry

Here you can learn all about exciting research at the Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest (HBEF), who's doing it, and why it's important.

Check out the activities below for more information about the HBEF. You will probably want to start with the Introduction and Virtual Tour.


Student Topics

Introduction and Virtual Tour

Glossary

Visit the glossary to learn more about new, unfamiliar, or strange words like biogeochemistry.

"Meet the Scientists"

Read all about several HBES scientists, graduate students, and technicians.

Acid Rain Homepage

Click here to read about HBEF acid rain research, on page 13 of the virtual tour.

Watershed 6 Virtual Tour

Once you have had a chance to read about watersheds and the experiments conducted on them at the HBEF, visit this page for a tour of Watershed 6 and the research conducted there. Watershed 6 is a "reference" watershed. This tour was designed for a college-educated audience, and was created by Thomas Siccama and Ellen Denny at Yale University.

New Research: The Watershed 1 calcium addition

In the newest long-term watershed experiment at the HBEF, scientists have added calcium to Watershed 1 to replace what acid rain has leached from the soil. Click here to see a video of the calcium addition. You may want to take the virtual tour before viewing the Watershed 1 webpage or video.

Map of the Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest

Click here to view a map of the HBEF, complete with locations of the experimental watersheds, Mirror Lake, the Forest Service buildings, and more.

Cooperators

To learn about the different institutions (universities, government programs, etc.) that work at the HBEF, click here. There may be one near you!


[ home | top ]