The climate adaptation and bedrock project is a research experiment run by Denise Alving, a PhD student in the Kaye Forest Dynamics Lab at Penn State, along with her advisor, Dr Margot Kaye, and collaborators at Penn State and the Department of Conservation and Natural Resources (DCNR). This project seeks to understand how underlying geology can facilitate or hinder the survival and growth of native Pennsylvania species and “new arrival” species. We planted seedlings from five native and four new arrival species from out of state on two bedrock types, sandstone and shale, at sites in Penn State’s Stone Valley Experimental Forest (SVEF), and the PA Department of Conservation and Natural Resources (DCNR)’s Rothrock State Forest. Over the next several years, we will take physiological, soil, and genetic samples at each site to quantify species survival, growth, and health, and determine whether plant characteristics at different scales of study make them better suited to a certain geology.  Management strategies are adopted from the Climate Change Response Framework and our project is a registered demonstration site of climate adaptation forest planting in action (see Additional Resources page for link to project demonstration page).