David Foster
Director of the Harvard Forest, Senior Lecturer on Biology
Profile
Outside professional activities
Profile
David Foster has been a faculty member in Organismic and Evolutionary Biology at Harvard since 1983 and Director of the Harvard Forest, the University's 4,000-acre ecological laboratory and classroom in central Massachusetts, since 1990. Foster has a PhD in ecology from the University of Minnesota and has conducted studies in the boreal forests of Labrador, Sweden, and Norway and the forests of Puerto Rico, the Yucatan, and Patagonia in addition to his primary research on landscape dynamics in New England. His interests focus on understanding the changes in forest ecosystems that result from human and natural disturbance and applying these results to the conservation and management of natural and cultural landscapes. At Harvard University Foster teaches courses on forest ecology and environmental change.
Contact
Email: drfoster@fas.harvard.edu
Additional Website: https://harvardforest.fas.harvard.edu/david-r-foster
Expertise
Organismic and evolutionary biology
Plant ecology
Landscape dynamics
Conservation
Plant ecology
Landscape dynamics
Conservation
Outside professional activities
Outside Professional Activities
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Outside Professional Activities For David Foster
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Relationships:
Highstead Foundation, Inc.
Consulting
Highstead Foundation, Inc.
Fiduciary Board Membership
Polly Hill Arboretum
Membership on a scientific or other advisory board
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