Jason McLachlan presented a talk “Putting Climate Change in Context: What Is the Signal of Vegetation Change Over the Last 2000 Years?” on the PalEON project on Tuesday afternoon.

We also hosted a well-attended info session “PALEON – A Paleoecological Observatory Network to assess terrestrial ecosystem models”

Kickoff meeting was held at Harvard Forest, MA from May 11-12, 2011. Due to venue size limitations the meeting was by invitation only.