
Harvard Trust Annual Meeting, 2023
Join the Harvard Conservation Trust for an evening with Richard Primack. Primack will share his research, its application to Harvard, and what we can do to build climate resilience in our own backyards. Henry David Thoreau was a climate change scientist! For the past 22 years, Professor Richard Primack and his team have been using Thoreau’s records from the 1850s and other Massachusetts data sources to document the earlier flowering and leafing out times of plants, the earlier flight times of butterflies, and the more variable response of migratory birds. Plants in Concord are also changing in abundance due to