Prof. Rich Stedman (along with Susan Christopherson, Brian Rahm and Darby Kiley) was a guest on WSKG Community Conversation (a live call-in show guest hosted this week by Susan Arbetter of Albany Now) on November 29. The discussion focused on—what else—Marcellus Shale development and the Supplementary Generic Environmental Impact Statement (SGEIS) in particular.
Thomas A. Gavin, Professor Emeritus, retired from DNR in 2008. Originally referred to by his students as DrTom, he now spends time writing blogs, which can be found at www.lifeatdrtoms.blogspot.com. His writing covers almost every topic, although natural history and organisms are a constant theme. He is also active on Facebook, where he describes himself [...]
DNR student Lilly Briggs, in collaboration with her advisor Dr. Marianne Krasny and Dr. Nancy Trautmann, Director of Education at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, has undertaken a Land Grant Fellowship project this fall to support both youth development and bird conservation in New York State. She hopes to blend the ecological, social, and educational [...]
Stefanie Hufnagl-Eichiner, Ph.D., recently graduated from the Department of Natural Resources and started a post doc position at the Department of Geography at the University of Passau in her native Germany. Steven Wolf, Associate Professor in DNR at Cornell, was her faculty adviser for her Ph.D. work. Hufnagl-Eichiner researches environmental governance through regional marketing in conventional [...]
Sustainability: Science, Practice, & Policy Adds Interactive Capabilities to Enhance Scholarly Articles Teamwork with U.S. National Library of Medicine enables readers to engage with SSPP articles November 21, 2011 (Bethesda) – As part of a parallel mission to enhance scholarly communication, editors of Sustainability: Science, Practice, & Policy (SSPP) and the U.S. National Library of Medicine worked together to transform two [...]
Jillian Cohen, a PhD candidate in DNR, recently earned a Dean John A. Knauss Marine Policy fellowship from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. The Knauss fellowship matches highly qualified graduate students with hosts in the legislative and executive branch of government located in the Washington, D.C. area. Cohen will spend a year working for the House [...]
The Cornell Maple Program and its campus-based specialists have been given a national award on Oct. 26. Brian Chabot, former director of the program; Stephen Childs, director; Michael Farrell, northern maple specialist and director of the program’s Uihlein Field Station; and Peter Smallidge, New York state extension forester and former director of the program have [...]
The NYSERDA ClimAid report on climate change impacts in NYS was released to the public yesterday! Many people within DNR contributed to this joint effort between Cornell, Columbia University, and Hunter College. The report was funded by NRSERDA. Several articles were written about it, including an article in the New York Times. It can be [...]
Associate professor in DNR, Matt Hare, has been studying the surf clam population in the Long Island Sound. The results were unexpected. The well-known northern variety (S.s. solidissima) can be found in the Sound, which is a major harvesting area. The lesser-known southern variety (S.s. similis) can also be found there. This discovery was made [...]
The Human Dimensions Research Unit (HDRU) at Cornell University strives to expand the understanding of academicians, students, and natural resources agency staff about the human behavioral aspects of natural resource management and policy. We work to develop fundamental understandings of human behavior associated with resource management and to apply concepts and empirical findings to real-world, [...]
