Keith Tidball and his team have been awarded a National Open Spaces Sacred Places planning grant. The TFK Foundation, which awarded the grant, is a private nonprofit that funds accessible urban green spaces. The mission of the TKF Foundation is to provide the opportunity for a deeper human experience by supporting the creation of public [...]
Matthew Gonser (B.S. NTRES ’06, M.L.A. ’12, M.R.P. ’12) will be joining the University of Hawai’i at Manoa Sea Grant College Program as an extension agent, focusing on community planning as a member of the Center for Smart Building and Community Design. Matthew will work as an intermediary between the academic and professional worlds, coordinating community [...]
Tom Gavin’s lecture titled “My life as a field biologist: from deer to digital book in 40 short years” can now be viewed on Youtube, rather than having to be downloaded from the previous url that was provided. The link is: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pd7bziiLzcE. For more information about his lecture, see this blog post.
The ground floor slab has been removed to allow excavation for the base of the elevator shaft (pictured below), new stairwell and plumbing and electric. Here is the excavated ground floor looking to the east: …and to the west: The framing of the walls has started on the first floor. Here is the first floor [...]
Ruth Sherman, a Research Associate in the Department of Natural Resources, competed in the Women’s 50-54 2012 UCI Masters World Cyclocross Championship Race held in Louisville, KY, Jan. 12-15, the first time they’ve been held in the U.S. and took home the bronze medal. If you’ve never heard of cyclocross, it is a fun, crazy bike [...]
Next month, the Ecological Society of America will host its second Emerging Issues conference, “Developing Ecologically-Based Conservation Targets Under Global Change.” The conference, conceptualized by Bernd Blossey and Laura Martin of DNR and Dov Sax of Brown University, will bring together one hundred ecologists, social scientists, conservation practitioners, and graduate students to (1) identify existing and [...]
Dr. Tom Gavin, Professor Emertus of the Department of Natural Resources, presented: My Life as a Field Biologist: from Deer to Digital Book in 40 Short Years. to the Cornell Association of Professors Emeriti (CAPE) on December 8, 2011. Tom Gavin’s lecture provided a panoramic reprise of his research career as a Field Biologist by [...]
Four Chinese researchers were awarded the renowned “Green Talents” sustainability prize on Thursday. “Climate change, water shortages, a loss of biodiversity and a lack of raw materials – all urgent social challenges which the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research aims to draw to the attention of science, business and politics in Germany in [...]
Borrowed from Cornell Chronicle Article. Alex Kudryavtsev Young people work at an urban farm in Battery Park at the southern tip of Manhattan. Alex Kudryavtsev A Bronx high school science teacher brought her students this summer to the Eagle Street Rooftop Farm in Brooklyn, New York. By Krishna Ramanujan Cornell has been selected to lead [...]
The New York Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit was established at Cornell University in 1961. The New York Unit is one of 40 units in 38 states established for the purpose of enhancing the management and conservation of our nation’s natural resources. We work on natural resource issues of interest to our cooperators, with [...]
