#  Welcome, Jeannine!  

 





July 08, 2024

 

 

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 The HUH welcomed Dr. Jeannine Cavender-Bares on July 1 as our new Director. Coming to us from the University of Minnesota, Dr. Cavender-Bares brings with her a strong background of leadership and research on mechanisms that influence the origins, distributions, assembly and ecosystem function of plant communities both above and below ground. Dr. Cavender-Bares understands that specimen collections are *the* critical anchor for both preserving and advancing our knowledge of diversity of life on Earth and how it is changing. As Director, Dr. Cavender-Bares, in connection with the [Arnold Arboretum](https:/arboretum.harvard.edu/), the [Harvard Forest Long-Term Ecological Research](https:/harvardforest.fas.harvard.edu/research/LTER) site, and the [NEON ecological observatory](https:/www.neonscience.org/), aims to lead a coordinated and synergistic effort to integrate preserved and living collections, plot networks, ecological observatories, eDNA surveys and airborne and satellite sensors to develop a global biodiversity monitoring system, essential to aid management efforts towards sustainability.

 Dr. Cavender-Bares also serves as Director of the [ASCEND Biology Integration Institute](https:/huh.harvard.edu/spectralbiology.org).

 Welcome, Jeannine!



 

 

 



 

 

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