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The Nature Conservancy - Grasslands Pilot ProjectProject leader: Sabrina Deveraux
HCCS is partnering with the the Nature Conservancy to conduct research in understanding how climate change impacts grasslands in Patagonia, Argentina. This project will include data analysis (with data provided by the Nature Conservancy) to promote the sustainable management of grasslands given the face of anthropogenic pressures. |
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The World Wildlife Fund
Project Leaders: Remi Gosselin and Anthony Henriquez
As HCCS embarks on our second semester working with the World Wildlife Fund, we are excited to continue and deepen our impact through our involvement with the Climate Crowd website. Our WWF project synthesizes reports gathered from around the world on climate change into readable summaries. We use the website wwfclimatecrowd.org to find reports from areas as diverse as Kenya and Mexico, which our contact at WWF can then upload to the site. This allows scientists/researchers in the field to quickly view the general trends of certain areas affected by climate change. The trends we cover in our reports include changes in climate that local people have noticed, the effects of those changes on their lives, their responses to those changes, and the effects of climate change on wildlife. |
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The Harvard Forest
Project leaders: Andrés Lopez-Garrido & Maria Park
This project includes advancing the Wildlands and Woodlands initiative of the Harvard Forest and researching/ managing land protection and conservation in New England to create programming that can serve as a national model. Project members will also complete work to conserve the Northern Appalachian Trail. Additionally, this team will help with the HCCS retreat to the Forest at the end of September where we will learn more about forest conservation, brainstorm management ideas, network, and bond with other HCCS members. |
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The Kasiisi Project
Project Leaders: Scout Leonard and Amy Li An exciting new collaboration, this initiative will include developing an elephant Conservation Curriculum that will be implemented in Ugandan schools. This project will work closely with Ugandan Conservation Education Staff to design an execute a comprehensive education plan. 
The Women in Nature Network
Project leader: Angelica Torres
The Women in Nature Network is a project-turned student organization. It functions differently from a normal project structure, yet is still connected to HCCS. WiNN is a global network of professional and collegiate women who combine their knowledge skills and talents to work toward conservation goals by empowering female leaders. Our role in this semester is to maintain the network's quarterly newsletter to all of it’s members, develop a website, and establish new chapters of the network in other collegiate settings to host events and nurture future conservationists through resources and mentorship. |
Careers in Conservation
Project Leaders: Amy Li and Katherine Culbertson This annual project's goal is to plan and execute a conference for Boston-based students interested in professionally pursuing, as the title suggests, careers in conservation. Our tieam consists of students interested in the outreach and development of young adults wishing to educate themselves on how to best prepare for a profession in conservation. Working within Harvard University resources and beyond, we will recruit speakers, panelists, advisers, sponsors, and partner organizations to fulfill one of HCCS's primary mission statements, which is "to unite undergraduate students, Harvard professors, PhD researchers, and actively campaigning scientists to pool resources and ability in an effort to make a difference in the environmental movement" by investing in future conservationists. 
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