On July 10, 2007 the BACE was featured on the 5 o'clock news on WCVB-TV Boston (Channel 5; ABC). You can read or view the story here.
Climate of the future? Boston Globe story about the BACE (June 21, 2007)
On April 26, 2007 the BACE was featured on the 6 o'clock news on WBZ-TV Boston (Channel 4; CBS), as one installment of their "Project Mass.: Global Warming" series. You can read or view the story here.
On Earth Day 2007 the BACE opened its public exhibit area with displays on the topic of climate change.
Part of the BACE public exhibit was displayed at the 2007 New England Spring Flower Show at the Bayside Expo Center, where it won a Silver Medal from the Massachusetts Horticultural Society.
You can view many of the displays and obtain more information here.
The Boston-Area Climate Experiment (BACE) is designed to characterize ecosystem responses to climate change over a response surface, as opposed to testing responses to single step increases. Will the processes and properties of communities and ecosystems respond linearly to changes in temperature, or are there important threshold temperatures that could be reached? To what extent does an ecosystem's response to warming depend on precipitation patterns? The BACE will test these questions experimentally, in a New England old-field ecosystem. Researchers will measure responses of several variables, including growth of wildflowers, grasses, and tree seedlings.
The BACE is coordinated by the Dukes lab at the University of Massachusetts Boston. For more information, contact Jeff Dukes by email (dukes@stanfordalumni.org).
Collaborating laboratories include those of: Paul Moorcroft (Harvard), Matthew Wallenstein (Colorado State University), Richard Conant (CSU), Eldor Paul (CSU), Jennifer Hughes Martiny (University of California Irvine), Bill Parton (CSU), and Richard Primack (Boston University).
The BACE was constructed with funding from the National Science Foundation, and is supported by the National Institute for Climatic Change Research. The BACE is endorsed by the Global Land Project.
2007 New England Flower Show BACE Exhibit
Earth Day 2007 at Waltham, Massachusetts
Past Climate in the Northeast (Coming soon!)
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