• Overview
• News and Events
  • Field Ecology Research Internships
  • Small Grants
  • Celebrate Our 20th Anniversary!
  • Dedication of Golden Ridge
  • Consortium Day 2008
  • William T. Golden (1909-2007)
  • Green Ride 2008
  • E. G. Stillman Award
• The Consortium
• The Forest
• Facilities and Resources
• Green Building and Smart Features
• Publications
• School in the Forest

There's always something happening at Black Rock Forest!

• The Spring 2010 issue of the Black Rock Forest News is now online.
• Small Grants  funded by the Stiefel Foundation have been awarded.
• The Consortium is hiring its first Director of Education.  Read the job description.
• Information and application forms for this year's Field Ecology Research Internship for High School Students, from July 11-23,  are now available.  The internship is a two-week residential program that gives science-interested incoming sophomores, juniors, and seniors the opportunity to learn principles of ecology, gain field experience, and work directly with scientific researchers.
• Find out about other internship opportunities for high school students, undergraduates, and graduate students in Black Rock Forest's Trout Restoration Program.
• The New York City Department of Parks and Recreation has joined the Consortium.
  
• Read about our 20th anniversary celebration.   
  
• The Consortium held its sixth Research Symposium on June 22, 2009.  Abstracts of the 21 scientific talks are available online.
  
• The new Fall 2009 issue of the newsletter is now available online.
• Teachers who want to bring classes to the Forest can now fill out reservation and other forms online.
• You can now donate online to the Black Rock Forest Consortium, through the secure web site of NYCharities.org.
• Dr. Neil Maher's history of land use in the Black Rock Forest area prior to the establishment of the Forest as a research site is now online, along with profiles and maps of 17 homestead sites.
• Consortium Day was held on June 8, 2008, and the E. G. Stillman Award was presented to Dr. Gene Likens, founder of the Institute of Ecosystems Studies.  Photos coming soon.
• On May 17, 2009,  Golden Ridge was dedicated in honor of Consortium founder William T. Golden.  Photos coming soon.
• The Consortium's Small Grant program, generously funded by the Stiefel Foundation, awarded six grants totaling $26,308.07 to scientists and educators working in the Forest.
• Consortium founder William T. Golden died on October 7; read a tribute by Dr. William Schuster, Executive Director.
• Hunter College has just joined the Consortium, and NYU has rejoined, specifically its Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development and the School of Arts and Sciences. .
• Student Research Spotlight articles are now available online.