With $2.3 million in funding from the National Science Foundation, Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies is leading the creation of the first large-scale public collection of lake metabolism data. The o...

Speaker: Dr. Serita Frey, University of New Hampshire

Opportunities for employment at Cary Institute.

Speaker: Dr. Nate Upham, Arizona State University

Visit NYBG during Climate Week NYC 2026 to harness the power of plants so that people and the environment can thrive together. Join talks on Wednesday that explore how to Nature Your City, which is cr...

Most people think of segregation as a social phenomenon. But a Cary-led special feature in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences examines how segregation also has deep ecological...

With harmful algal blooms (also known as HABs) on the rise throughout New York State, the U.S., and around the world, it is increasingly important to learn how to recognize them and what to do if you ...

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Twenty years ago, Cary Education embarked on a curriculum project to develop materials to help students understand the ecology of the Hudson River and how it changes over time. The Changing Hudson Pro...

Smoke drives increased wet deposition of essential macronutrients that limit growth and production in terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems. Smoke increases nitrogen, phosphorus, and potassium depositio...

For more than 35 years, researchers at the Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies in Millbrook, New York have been studying how interactions between acorns, rodents, ticks, predators, and climate shape L...

Lyda Hill Philanthropies has awarded $2.7 million to Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies in support of the Western Fire & Forest Resilience Collaborative (WFFRC) program. The two-year grant will allow...

In many urban areas, low-income neighborhoods have more mosquitoes, making residents more vulnerable to mosquito-borne diseases. A new study co-authored by scientists at Cary Institute of Ecosystem St...

Join us for a science conversation featuring environmental historian Stephen Pyne, a leading authority on the relationship between people and fire, including the history of fire management.

An overview of harmful algal blooms, with a special focus on blooms in flowing waters like the Hudson River.

Speaker: Christy Goodale, Cornell University

Speaker: William R. Penuel, University of Colorado Boulder

Speaker: Dr. Paulo Brando, Yale School of the Environment

There’s a lot that scientists don’t know about canopy soil, but a new project will start to demystify this suspended substrate. Led by Jane Lucas and Evan Gora of Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies, ...

Speaker: Dr. Ellis Diego Soto, University of California, Berkeley

A new Cary-led paper proposes that many modern landscapes can be managed more holistically when they are understood as a mixture of urban, rural, and wild features.

Scientists don’t know much about canopy soil. But with funding from the US National Science Foundation, a new project is poised to reveal more about what it’s made of, what microbes are living in it, ...

Speaker: Dr. Jessica Hite, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Speaker: Dr. Erica Smithwick, Earth and Environmental Systems Institute and Penn State Climate Consortium

Speaker: Dr. Kathleen Weathers, Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies

A perspective published in Nature Water in February underscores how adaptation and mitigation measures to address urban flooding often exacerbate environmental injustices for society’s most vulnerable...

In the summer of 2025, I had the great opportunity to participate in a fellowship project through the Catskill Science Collaborative. In our project, we examined how shifts in forest phenology (i.e., ...

The Amazon rainforest is famous for storing massive amounts of carbon in its trees and soils, helping regulate the global climate. Yet a paper published today in New Phytologist shows that one of Sout...

Tick-borne diseases are on the rise in the northeastern US, with many ticks carrying more than one pathogen. Most commonly found together were Borrelia burgdorferi, the bacterium that causes Lyme dise...

In a Q&A, Cary scientist Steve Hamilton explains why extreme swings between record-breaking floods and record-breaking droughts may become the Amazon’s new ‘normal’, and why it matters for people and ...

A new study coauthored by Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies ecologist Sarah Batterman estimates that if recovering tropical forests had enough nitrogen in their soils, they might absorb up to an add...

Large wildfires are becoming more frequent in the eastern US, accelerating risks to people, property, and ecosystems. To help address these threats, Winslow Hansen, an ecologist at Cary Institute of E...

New research has found nearly 38 million hectares of land in the western United States is historically behind on its burning, leaving those lands in a “fire deficit.” Cary's Winslow Hansen will presen...

A graduate student shares their summer research as part of the Catskill Science Collaborative Fellowship. The student travelled across the Catskills to measure how hemlock health varies from place to ...

Opportunities for employment at Cary Institute.