Happy New Year – 2015

Happy New Year and thank you for your support in 2014! This past year was a big year for Adirondack Research. Thank you to our friends and colleagues for bringing us business and for sharing what we do with the larger professional community in New York. Please continue to share information about Adirondack Research with your networks – we appreciate it.

This past year was our second year in business, and we were able to diversify across several key projects.

• We completed ecological and socioeconomic assessments on non-native animal species in New York State for the NYS Department of Environmental Conservation. These informed new legislation in New York regulating the sale and transport of invasive species.

• We assessed the “Birth to Three” early childhood education and social support infrastructure across Clinton, Essex, and Franklin Counties for Adirondack Foundation and made recommendations for system-wide infrastructure enhancements to help the region’s youngest citizens.

• We helped organize a third successful field season at Intervale Lowlands Preserve in Lake Placid, measuring long-term trends in ecological response to climate change.

• We secured funding through the Northern New York Audubon to create an educational phenology trail at Parkside Drive Park in Lake Placid, which will commence in May 2015.

• We coordinated a field-based study of emerald ash borer traps for the United States Department of Agriculture in the eastern Adirondacks. These beetle traps may help with future early detection of this critical invasive species.

• We assisted the Adirondack All-Taxa Biodiversity Inventory for Paul Smith’s College in an effort to expand visibility, collaboration, and biodiversity research across the Adirondacks. We are currently planning the 2015 ATBI BioBlitz in the Champlain Valley this summer.

Adirondack Research relies on the support and professional leads of colleagues like you. Please share our work on climate change, invasive species, and education with your professional networks. Visit our website www.adkres.org , and follow us on Twitter @ADKResearch. Our motto, “We use science to inform decisions.”, emphasizes our scientific approach to developing solutions for social and environmental issues. We hope to expand our services to cover an even larger range of projects with clients across New York State and the eastern U.S. We appreciate your assistance in promoting our business, and we wish you all the best for 2015.

Sincerely,
Ezra Schwartzberg