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Hubbard Brook: Big insights from a small place | Mountain Voices
January 19, 2023 @ 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
Presented by Peter M. Groffman
Groffman’s talk will provide an overview of Hubbard Brook research, with a focus on why the site is well known and how the watershed approach has been fundamental in Environmental Science.
Peter M. Groffman (he/him/his) is a Professor at the City University of New York Advanced Science Research Center and the Earth and Environmental Sciences Program at the Graduate Center, and Brooklyn College Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences. He is also a Senior Research Fellow at the Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies. His research focuses on climate effects on ecosystem biogeochemical processes related to carbon and nitrogen cycles. Much of his research is based at the Hubbard Brook Long Term Ecological Research site in New Hampshire, where he has worked since 1992. Groffman was a Convening Lead Author for the 2013 U.S. National Climate Assessment Chapter on Ecosystems, Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services, a lead author for the Second (Wetlands) and Third (North America) Assessment Reports of the Intergovernmental Program on Climate Change (IPCC), and is on the “Reuters Hot List” of the world’s top 1,000 climate scientists.
Free and open to the public. Presented as part of the Museum’s ongoing virtual Mountain Voices series.