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Since 1987, our scientists have been keeping close watch on the tiny plants and animals that form the base of the Hudson River’s food web. Data have allowed us to track the food web’s response to climate change, extreme weather, and invasive species, like the zebra mussel and water chestnut.
Shore zones are where the water meets the land. These biologically diverse habitats provide valuable ecosystem services: from fish habitat and flood protection to the removal of pollution from runoff water entering the river.
Beneath the surface of the Hudson River, underwater plants provide wildlife habitat and maintain water quality. We are harnessing the power of citizen science to assess the condition of submersed vegetation beds in the tidal Hudson.
Road Salt: The Problem, The Solution, and How to Get There is an update to a 2010 report. It highlights the latest science on the environmental and health impacts of road salt pollution and provides an overview of best management practices to minimize road salt use while keeping roads safe.
The Cary Institute hosted a management-based forum about the impact that road salt has on natural areas and drinking water supplies, with a focus on successful salt reduction strategies being used regionally and nationally.
The questions included in this guide are designed to help you choose the right kind of shore defenses (if any) for your site. They are intended to open and guide your discussions with engineers, landscape architects, and regulators who will work with you.
The purpose of this handbook is to offer suggestions for practical ways that landowners and land managers can protect shore zones and increase the benefits that they provide.
A guide for shore zone managers and users for protecting the ecological benefits that healthy shore zones can provide.
Campers at Cary Institute spend a week as ecologists and experience the joys of exploration, immersion in nature, and discovery. Our Ecology Camps are special opportunities for children to work with cutting-edge scientists and educators in our unique setting.
Looking to engage your child in nature and the outdoors this summer? Your camper will fit right in at our week-long day camp sessions. All Cary camps are held on our campus in Millbrook, New York.
Causes of pharmaceutical pollution to freshwaters include inadequate or aging wastewater infrastructure, sewage overflows, runoff from livestock operations, and effluent from drug manufacturing.
While Cary research has shown that microbial communities can adapt and function in the presence of persistent pharmaceutical pollution, not all microbes are equal in terms of their impact on water quality and human health.
Since the early 1990s, we’ve been keeping a pulse on how forest ecology shapes the number of blacklegged ticks infected with the pathogens that cause Lyme and other tickborne diseases.
As climate change brings warmer spring temperatures and milder autumns to the northeastern US, blacklegged ticks are emerging earlier and feeding longer. They are also expanding their ranges northward – putting new regions at risk.
We are an independent nonprofit organization researching pressing environmental issues including the impacts of climate change, freshwater and forest health, infectious diseases, and urban ecology. We are here because the world needs the ecological science to ensure a healthy and sustainable future.