Lindsey Rustad, USDA Forest Service (FS), Durham, NH, US, John L. Campbell, Northern Research Station, USDA Forest Service, Durham, NH, Charles Driscoll, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY, Timothy J. Fahey, Department of Natural Resources, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, Paul Schaberg, Aiken Center, USDA Forest Service, Burlington, VT, Peter M. Groffman, Advanced Science Research Center, CUNY-The Graduate Center, New York, NY, Katharine Hayhoe, Climate Science Center, Texas Tech Universtiy, Lubbock, TX, Robert Fahey, Department of Natural Resources and the Environment, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, Joseph Staples, Environmental Science, University of Southern Maine, Gorham, ME, Sarah Garlick, Hubbard Brook Research Foundation, Woodstock, VT, Wendy Leuenberger, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI and Gary Hawley, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT