The Catskill Environmental Research & Monitoring (CERM) Conference is held every other year in October. The first conference was convened in 2010 by an organizing body of government agencies, university, and non-profit partners that continues in its role as conference convener. Member organizations are listed to the right of this page.

Over the years, the CERM conference has expanded its program to meet the goals of fostering student interest in research in the Catskills and facilitating inter-disciplinary dialogue and interaction between managers and researchers.

The conference has spurred several new initiatives, including the Catskill Science Collaborative Portal, a data archive of research and monitoring projects and datasets related to Catskill ecosystems, and the Catskill Science Collaborative, a group of individuals and institutions dedicated to facilitating collaboration and outreach by those doing environmental research in the Catskill Mountain region of New York State.

Purpose and goals

The pur­pose of the CERM conference is to:

(1) High­light envi­ron­men­tal research and mon­i­tor­ing efforts relat­ing to the Catskill Mountains;

(2) Bring together a diverse inter­dis­ci­pli­nary group of researchers, stu­dents, resource man­agers and oth­ers inter­ested in the Catskills;

(3) Explore the impacts of cli­mate change, inva­sive species and other envi­ron­men­tal stres­sors on water qual­ity, bio­di­ver­sity and ecosys­tem health; and

(4) Stim­u­late dis­cus­sion and pro­mote col­lab­o­ra­tive efforts that address data gaps and envi­ron­men­tal issues affect­ing the region.

Past CERM Conferences

View or download presentations and handouts made avail­able by pre­sen­ters at the 2022 conference and previous conferences.

Con­fer­ence Organizers

Ashokan Water­shed Stream Man­age­ment Program/Cornell Uni­ver­sity Coop­er­a­tive Exten­sion of Ulster County

Bard College/Center for Envi­ron­men­tal Pol­icy

Cary Insti­tute of
Ecosys­tem Stud­ies

Catskill Insti­tute for the Envi­ron­ment

Catskill Center

Marist College

New York City Depart­ment of Envi­ron­men­tal Pro­tec­tion

New York State Depart­ment of Envi­ron­men­tal Con­ser­va­tion

New York State Energy Research & Devel­op­ment Author­ity

New York State Museum

Rondout-Neversink Stream Man­age­ment Program

United States Geo­log­i­cal Sur­vey