2024 Workshop

Reviving Oysters

A keystone species that clarifies water and builds critical reef habitats, eastern oysters are central to coastal restoration plans in New England. Restoring oyster beds near urban areas has been…

Improved Flood Prediction With Better Hydraulic Simulation

Extreme precipitation events are straining the natural hydrologic systems that play a critical role in the natural filtering of drinking water for downstream communities, including New York City. Models that…

Ecological Calendars for Climate Change

…Native Americans and rural communities near Oneida Lake, the researchers will identify key climate vulnerabilities, document existing ecological calendars, and revitalize or develop new calendars for local use by combining…

Modeling Sound Attenuation and Individual Space Usage to Estimate Density of Animal Populations (TNC)

…often requires human interpretation of data. This project will further automate data analysis and incorporate new statistical models to improve density estimates of endangered gibbons in Borneo. Cornell Investigators: Angela…

Wind Energy, More Efficiently

…region. The team will develop and deploy a cost-efficient new measurement technology that uses data from seismographs to better quantify wind loading on turbines, optimize wind farm design, and monitor…

2019: Soil-based Climate Mitigation Solutions in Developing Countries: a Case Study for Zambia (TNC)

This project will assess the potential contribution of soils–specifically soil organic carbon–to the Intended Nationally Determined Contributions (INDC) outlined in the Paris Climate Accord. This new information will fulfill the…

2016 – COP22 (Marrakech)

…links an academic design studio with New York State waterfront communities to explore alternatives for more resilient and connected waterfront areas. It combines urban initiatives for growth and revitalization with…

Balancing Environmental and Nutritional Tradeoffs of Expanding Amazonian Aquaculture

…this project, collaborators will evaluate the collective ecological and nutritional impacts of emerging aquaculture in the Amazon Basin, Earth’s largest river basin, and a new frontier in global aquaculture expansion….

Controlling the Whitefly Scourge for Staple Crops

…plants’ sugar-rich sap. Their sap-heavy diet poses some tricky challenges that existing “gene knockdown” approaches to sustainable pest management haven’t solved. The researchers plan a new strategy by engineering tomato…