| News and Events
There's always something happening at Black Rock Forest!
- Abstracts from the Consortium's Seventh Research Symposium on June 20, 2011, are now available. Some 25 scientists working at the Forest or around the Hudson Highlands gave talks on the future of oak forests, forest ecology and climate history, microbial communities, population studies, watershed planning, and internet projects. The Symposium was cosponsored by the Palisades Interstate Park Commission and the Highlands Environmental Research Institute.
- The Black Rock Forest Consortium has hired Dr. Jeffrey
D. Kidder as its first Director of Education. Jeff received his Ph.D. in Zoology, with a
major concentration in developmental biology and minor concentrations in reproductive
physiology and animal science, from Cornell University in 1998. He also holds
an M.S. in wildlife science from Cornell. Prior to pursuing his doctorate, Jeff
was a high school biology teacher. For
the past decade, Jeff has focused his academic career on providing science
outreach programs for secondary and elementary school audiences from university
settings, first at Rutgers University’s Newark campus, where he served as an assistant professor in the Department of Urban Education and the director of science outreach, and subsequently at the University of Colorado’s Boulder
campus, where he served as an assistant professor in the department of ecology and environmental biology
and the executive director of Science Discovery, a not-for-profit organization
dedicated to science education. In these roles, Jeff developed expertise involving
science faculty and graduate and college students in K-12 education, securing $8
million in science education grants from the National Science Foundation over a
12-year period at Rutgers and the University of Colorado.
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