Center for Earth and Environmental Science at SUNY Plattsburgh

09/02/2026

Late Night for the Planet is back! The North Country and ADKs best and only live podcast about community and environmental issues is on September 9! Hosted and written by CEES students with live interviews, conversation and games with regional environmental leaders.

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09/02/2026

Wildlifers got out on the boat today to survey fish on Lake Champlain with Drs. Mihuc and Huston. Bowfin, large and smallmouth bass, sunfish, suckers, and many minnow. Another great field day!

09/02/2026

Last community paint tomorrow 2-3:30pm at Melissa Penfield park. Come help the monarch and milkweed mural come to life!🎨🧑‍🎨👨‍🎨

09/01/2026

Forest Ecology class spent the day at the Albany Pine Bush Preserve Albany Pine Bush Preserve learning all about inland pitch pine scrub oak barrens, fire ecology, landscape mosaics, and dancing butterflies - amongst so many other things!! A huge thanks to the Preserve and especially Neil Gifford and Steve Campbell for hosting us!

08/30/2026

Bucketcams! Our small mammal habitat-use research at the Altona Flat Rock is aimed at understanding how small mammals respond to disturbance, different successional stages, and forest structural attributes!

08/30/2026

A great hike up Rattlesnake Mountain with students and faculty to get the semester started!

08/27/2026

Wildlife ecology week 1 turtle fest at Point au Roche Park and a quick trip to check out wetlands and microhabitat differences at the Flat Rock burn site in prep for designing their research projects.

08/27/2026

Week 1 ecology lab takes on plastic on City Beach in Plattsburgh!

08/25/2026

08/24/2026

A great first day of Forest Ecology!