
CATSKILL ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH & MONITORING CONFERENCE
cerm in 2025

We hope you enjoyed the 2025 CERM Conference held October 22-24. We will be updating this website soon with presentation information.
Shared Ground: Collaborative Approaches to Catskills Environmental Research
The Catskill Forest Preserve may be ‘Forever Wild’ but that does not make it immune from stressors introduced from the outside.
CERM Co-Founder Morton Adams, Olive Natural Heritage Society
Join us for CERM 2027
The Catskill Environmental Research & Monitoring (CERM) Conference brings together researchers and natural resource managers working in the Catskills to share study findings and identify plans to collaboratively meet science needs for the Catskills. The CERM Conference is an opportunity to gather for strategic conversations about environmental research and management. See presentations from CERM 2022 and past conferences.
At each conference we welcome abstracts on the conference theme, or any aspect of environmental research and monitoring in the Catskill region or research from other areas that is relevant to the Catskills. We encourage presentations that review the state of knowledge in a particular area of specialization, identify areas where research or monitoring is lacking, or discuss new research methods that could be applied to the Catskills.

Conference topics include:
- Ecosystem Carbon Cycling in the Catskills
- Forest Health and Management
- Stream Sediment Management & Monitoring
- New Technologies Changing Research
- Human Impacts on Public Lands
- Water Quality & Quantity
- Environmental Management Success Stories
- Biodiversity, Invasives, and Wildlife
Who should attend?
The conference is intended mainly for researchers, students, and resource managers working and studying in the Catskills, but anyone who would like to contribute or learn more about the region is welcome to attend.
Venue: Belleayre Mountain
The 2027 CERM conference will be held in the heart of the Catskill Mountains. Past conferences venues have included the Belleayre Mountain Ski Center features miles of hiking and skiing trails and Full Moon Resort.
