Hell and High Water: New York’s Response to the Challenge of Climate Change

Mark Lowery New York State Department of Environmental Conservation Policy Analyst February 6, 2019 1:00 p.m. Reamer Auditorium on the Union College Campus This event is free and open to the public. No tickets or registration necessary. Lunch will be served.   The fall of 2018 brought the release of three important climate change reports: […]

Colvin: Hero to the North Woods

with filmmaker Bill Killon     January 24, 2019 at the Kelly Adirondack Center Film at 7:00 Refreshments from 6:30 This event is free and open to the public.   This documentary film tells the story of Verplanck Colvin, the father of the Adirondack Park. Colvin explored, surveyed, and mapped the northern reaches of upstate […]

White-nose Syndrome, the darkest of nights for New York bats

Presented by the Kelly Adirondack Center and UCALL     Reamer Auditorium Tuesday, September 25, 2018 5:30 p.m. Lecture, Refreshments from 5:00 p.m. Free and Open to the Public Join Alan Hicks, retired bat biologist for the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation, as he discusses the history of bat research and management in […]

Still Here, Gone, Introduced, and Returned: People and Mammals in the Adirondacks

with Professor Phil Terrie Professor Emeritus, American Culture Studies and Environmental Studies Bowling Green State University November 8, 2018 Olin Building Room 115 5:30 presentation, refreshments from 5:00 Co-sponsored by UCALL Free and Open to the Public   A presentation on the history of the relationships between people and the large, charismatic mammals of the […]

Jefferson Project Update 2018

  Thursday, May 17, 2018 | 7:00 p.m. | Olin 115   The Jefferson Project is a collaboration between Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, IBM, and The FUND for Lake George that studies the past, present, and potential future states of Lake George. Jefferson Project findings will feed back into improved decision and policy making in an […]

Attachment Bonds and Wild Places

with Jillmarie Murphy, PhD Associate Professor of English, Director of Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies Thursday, April 5, 2018 at 7:00 in Reamer Auditorium Refreshments from 6:30 This event is free and open to the public.   This talk will focus on both the material and immaterial bonds that humans develop to place, specifically the […]