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Toolik Lake Alaska

Team Discovers a Significant Role for Nitrate in the Arctic Landscape

March 22, 2018

Harvard Forest soil warming experiment. Credit Audrey Barker-Plotkin

Measuring the Risky Feedback Between Soil Carbon & Global Warming | Living on Earth

November 6, 2017

The Toolik Lake field site.

Lessons from the Arctic: Ecological Research with Lasting Value

November 6, 2017

Harvard Forest soil plot. Credit Jerry Melillo

26-Year Climate Change Experiment Leads to Troubling Conclusion | Washington Post

October 5, 2017

Heated and control plots in a long-term soil warming study at Harvard Forest, Petersham, Mass.

Carbon Feedback from Forest Soils will Accelerate Global Warming, 26-Year Study Projects

October 5, 2017

In the arctic, microbial activity in previously frozen but now-thawing soil could release large amounts of carbon to the atmosphere, creating a feedback loop with global warming.This is Toolik Field Station in Alaska, site of the MBL-directed Long-Term Ecological Research project for the National Science Foundation.

Can Arctic Ecosystems Survive Without River Icings? | PBS NewsHour

April 28, 2017

Plum Island aerial photo

On Research Funding and Coastal Change | UnderCurrent Productions

March 25, 2017

campus drone

Researchers Press Forward With National Climate Report by Drawing on State-level Data | Midwest Energy News

February 22, 2017

Tundra landscape near Toolik Field Station, with the Brooks Range in the distance.

NSF Awards MBL $6.8 Million for Arctic Ecology, Climate Change Research

February 17, 2017