Highbridge Winter Walk with Expert Naturalist Mike Feller
The winter woods are free of the clutter of spring and summer’s exuberant foliage revealing hidden features and dimensions of landscape and ecology. Bundle up,…
Living with White-Tailed Deer
Explore the Greenbelt with the Urban Park Rangers as they search for deer. Learn about deer ecology and behavior as you look for clues of deer…
iLANDing: Researching Urban Ecologies with Movement Based Scores
iLAND (Interdisciplinary Laboratory for Art, Nature, Dance) invites participants for an outdoor workshop for the creation of movement-based scores designed to explore local urban ecologies.…
City of Science Series: Understanding Urban Habitats
Ecology has historically focused on natural environments, but scientists are increasingly turning their attention to understanding urban ecosystems. With 50% of the world’s population living in cities — and the heightened risks associated with climate change, green spaces, and flooding — studying urban habitats offers keys to design and planning that can help cities work better. Hear from a panel of CUNY experts in this growing field, including Charles Vörösmarty, director of the GC’s Advanced Science Research Center’s Environmental Sciences Initiative, and others.
Winter Walk at Pelham Bay Park
Join the Natural Areas Conservancy for a guided walk through the coastal and forested areas of New York City’s largest park. This diverse 2,700-acre park…
The Invasive Other
Join us for a 2-day Social Research conference series on the effects of people, technology and pathogens in our environment !
Brooklyn Eco Bike Tour
Learn about Brooklyn’s environmental challenges and successes on NYC H20’s leisurely and informative bike ride along Jamaica Bay!
Prospect Park: Natural Areas Conservancy Lecture
Learn about native plants and ecological features in Prospect Park, one of Brooklyn’s last remaining native forests.
ConSERVE New York City: Gantry Plaza State Park in Queens
Join the Student Conservation Association as they team up with New York State Parks for a day of service at Gantry Plaza State Park in Queens!
Gotham Unbound book launch and discussion on NYC’s urban ecology
The Institute for Public Knowledge invites you to a discussion with Ted Steinberg and Andrew Needham on Steinberg’s new book Gotham Unbound: The Ecological History of Greater New York. Steinberg will use the book and his historical understanding to address a question of some urgency: Can New York City survive the sea? He will look at what the city has done in the past to deal with coastal flooding, as well as current plans in the wake of Sandy.
The Five Thousand Pound Life: Land
The Five Thousand Pound Life: Land addresses the need to consider settlement patterns and competing land uses in new ways given the reality of climate change.
Jamaica Bay becomes a focus for ideas about global coastal resilience
Can studying Jamaica Bay lead to methods for protecting coastal areas and populations around the world?
A petition begins to preserve a research facility at the Brooklyn Botanical Garden
Budget cutbacks forced a shutdown of the noted research facility at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden, bringing sharp public criticism.
Mariellé Anzelone
There are few places in America where you can you lose yourself in a shaded forest, take a twenty-minute break to enjoy empanadas at a Mexican bodega, and then return to the wilderness to finish your hike. That’s what we did with ecologist Mariellé Anzelone…
Robot explores Gowanus Canal, seeks collaborators
The miniaturized exploration of New York waterways continues on Tuesdays and Thursdays in coming weeks, courtesy of Brooklyn Atlantis, a new research project from NYU…
The Surfrider Foundation takes on plastic bags
Our reporter Hallie Miller goes a meeting of the Surfrider Foundation’s new NYC branch. Because, yes, we have beaches. And, unfortunately, plastic bags.
Join the Urban Park Rangers in Central Park for FREE!
Join the Urban Park Rangers as they guide you through Central Park’s most picturesque and historic places. Discover the amazing foresight Frederick Law Olmstead and…