Department of Natural Resources

A new Environmental Science and Sustainability Major will be launched the 2013-2014 academic year. Several faculty in DNR were instrumental in it’s creation including Barbara Bedford and Richard Stedman. To see a write-up about this major in the Cornell Chronicle, click here.

Several Department of Natural Resources Faculty and staff have been fostering engagement with K-12 education. See below for several examples of this engagement. For the past two years, Dr. Rebecca Schneider has served as one of the science mentors for students at Briarcliff High School in Briarcliff Manor, NY.  The INTEL science internship program, lead [...]

DNR Visiting Fellow Jeffrey Milder was a panelist recently at a seminar hosted by the Cornell International Institute for Food, Agriculture and Development. He is the director of research for EcoAgriculture Partners, a nonprofit that promotes community-based sustainable landscape management and was quoted in the Cornell Chronicle about the Brown Revolution. Read the full article [...]

Rocking the Boat, a non-profit organization based out of the Bronx, worked with local high school students to build Tree Swallow nest boxes. Lilly Briggs assisted with the project, although was listed as a “Cornell University ornithology student” in this write up in the NY Daily News.

Northeast Public Radio, WAMC: Students March Against Hydrofracking – 4/30 http://www.wamc.org/post/students-march-against-hydrofracking “We’re here in Albany to let Governor Cuomo know loud and clear that if he wants to be a leader for the youth vote and for for environmental communities then he needs to take a stand and ban fracking” – Laura Smith, Vassar College [...]

This month’s Biodiversity and Conservation includes an article by DNR grad Laura Martin and Dr. Bernd Blossey in which they use economic choice experiments to model the impact of invasive plants on the desirability of lands for conservation acquisition. Read more at: http://www.springerlink.com/content/pp75w048126n87pm/