The Campuses

SUNY-ESF is a multiple campus institution that includes approxi-mately 1 million square feet of facilities in 186 buildings on 25,000 acres of land.

The Syracuse Campus

ESF’s Syracuse campus lies on 12 acres adjacent to Syracuse Uni-versity in an area traditionally known as “The Hill.’’ Our principal instructional programs at the bachelor’s, master’s, and doctoral levels are offered on the Syracuse campus. In addition, the Syracuse campus houses a wide variety of important research organizations. Programs are housed in seven academic buildings: Baker Laboratory, Jahn Laboratory; Walters, Bray, Marshall, and Illick halls; and Moon Library.

Moon Library

www.esf.edu/moonlib

The F. Franklin Moon Library contains more than 135,000 cataloged items and receives approximately 800 print journals and hundreds more electronically. The collection constitutes a specialized inform-ation source for the academic programs of the College. The collection has concentrations in such areas as botany and plant pathology, bio-chemistry, chemical ecology, forest chemistry, polymer chemistry, economics, entomology, environmental studies, landscape architecture, environmental design, management, paper science, photogrammetry, silviculture, soil science, water resources, world forestry, wildlife biology, wood products engineering, and zoology.

The Syracuse University libraries and the libraries at SUNY Upstate Medical University are within walking distance of ESF. Moon Library shares an online library catalog with Syracuse University, which also provides access to hundreds of Web-based databases (bibliographic and full text).

All Syracuse University library collections may be searched by using an online public access catalog located in Moon Library and through the World Wide Web. Other collections located throughout the United States are readily accessible through interlibrary loan.

The library building opened in 1968, and can seat 400 people. An extensive renovation of the main floor was completed in 2007. The main reading areas are located on the upper level adjacent to the open stacks. The reference, reserve and circulation areas are located in the center of the building. The main level of the library includes computer workstations for the library catalog, databases and Internet searching; individual study carrels; a conference room; library faculty offices; a writing support center; and tutoring areas, which create a learning commons atmosphere. The archives and special collections, a computer laboratory and library processing areas are located on the lower level.

Services provided by the library faculty and staff include a credit course in information literacy (ESF 200), orientation programs, class lectures, user aids and reference desk services.

The library is a wireless environment where students may use their personal laptops for work. A few laptops are available for loan from the reserve desk.

The College Archives, located in Moon Library, contain historical items relevant to the College and to forestry development in New York State. The special collections area of the archives includes rare and valuable books and folios, as well as the Fletcher Steele collection on landscape architecture and a collection on papermaking donated by Thomas Cook, an ESF alumnus.

Academic Computing Services

www.esf.edu/computing  •  http://cns.esf.edu

The use of computing technology is critical to the educational experience at ESF. Four public computing labs are maintained by ESF Computing and Network Services (CNS) for general campus use. All labs are open seven days a week during most of the academic year and contain PCs, printers and software commonly in use by ESF academic programs. In addition to these ESF campus computing resources, Syracuse University's Information Technology and Services manages public computer labs where ESF students can access required resources for both class work and research. Several of these labs are open 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

The ESF Computing Center labs in Baker Laboratory and Moon Library consist of Windows-based PCs with multi-format color and black-and-white printing facilities. From these labs, students have access to significant services through the ESF campus network, Syracuse University’s campus network, and the Internet. Additionally, all ESF students are assigned electronic mail accounts through Syracuse University for their e-mail needs. This e-mail address is used by both ESF and SU for all official electronic communications with students.

CNS supports students and faculty at ESF by maintaining the software available over the network and resident on ESF Computing Center PCs. Software available to students includes word processing applications, CAD and graphics packages, statistical packages, data-base management/spreadsheet applications, geographic information systems/modeling applications, various compilers, and other mis-cellaneous course-specific software.

Additional computing facilities on the ESF campus are provided by the individual academic programs for specialized uses such as modeling and geographic information systems. The specific descriptions of these resources are located within the department sections of this catalog.

Connections to the ESF campus network and the Internet can be made through ESF’s Evergreen wireless network from the main level of Moon Library, and the Alumni Lounge and the snack bar in Marshall Hall. Syracuse University’s wireless network, AirOrange, can be accessed from a variety of locations around the SU campus and from most residence halls. ESF students living in Syracuse University residence halls will find all of the dormitories wired for direct connections from student rooms to the Syracuse University campus network and the Internet.

Analytical and Technical Services

www.esf.edu/ats

Analytical and Technical Services provides an array of centralized analytical services including nuclear magnetic resonance spectrometry (NMR), gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC/MS), liquid chroma-tography-mass spectrometry (LC/MS), and inductively coupled plasma-optical emission spectrometry (ICP-OES). The unit also provides services including operation of a chemical and laboratory apparatus stockroom, microcomputer repair, instrument and equipment repair and fabrication, micromechanical repair and experimental apparatus fabrication, and coordination of scientific glassblowing repair.

Specialized Facilities

Specialized facilities on the Syracuse campus include electron micro-scopes; plant growth chambers; air-conditioned greenhouses; a bio-acoustical laboratory; radioisotope laboratory; computing center; and specialized instrumentation including a nuclear magnetic resonance spectrometer with both liquids and solids capability, electron spin resonance spectrometer, gas chromatography, mass spectrometer, ultracentrifuge, and X-ray and infrared spectrophotometer.

The paper science and engineering laboratory features a semi-commercial paper mill with accessory equipment. The Department of Construction Management and Wood Products Engineering has a complete strength-of-materials laboratory as well as a pilot-scale plywood laboratory and a machining laboratory.

Greenhouses and forest insectary are used to produce plant and insect material for instruction. Extensive collections are available for study, including wood samples from all over the world, botanical materials, insects, birds, mammals, and fishes.

Geographic Information Systems (GIS)

Geographic information systems are collections of capabilities for acquiring, storing, managing, manipulating, analyzing, displaying and reporting data or information which has locational or spatial attributes. The College faculty recognizes the power and utility of GIS for generating fundamental knowledge about the world, and for many practical environmental applications. In recognition of the importance of geo-spatial modeling and analysis to all programs of study and research at the College, the Council for Geospatial Modeling and Analysis (CGMA) was formed in 1991 to develop coherent programs of instruction, research and public service.

Geospatial modeling and analysis instruction and research at ESF builds upon existing strengths in mapping science and engineering, including surveying, photogrammetry, remote sensing, hydrology, environmental engineering, and waste management. It also builds on strengths in environmental applications, including environmental science, natural resources management, planning and design.

Extensive research and advanced instruction facilities are located in the College’s mapping science laboratory and these facilities continue to expand. Additional resources exist at other facilities at ESF and Syracuse University, including an internationally recognized faculty in the areas of cartographic theory and geographic analysis.

Any program at ESF can include a component of GIS instruction and practice with proper coordination. In addition, much more concentrated study, application, and research using GIS is available through engineering, environmental studies, forest and natural resources management, and landscape architecture.

Division of Engineering faculty and students are interested in spatial data acquisition, environmental database development, environmental modeling, site selection, and facility design. The study of GIS in engineering may be coordinated with programs in photogrammetry and mapping, environmental assessment and engineering, image processing, and water resources.

Environmental Studies faculty and students are interested in policy issues associated with environmental information, and applications within metropolitan environments. The faculty’s academic programs offer students special opportunities to pursue an interdisciplinary program that is tailored to their needs, and can include instruction in GIS and GMA applications and research.

Forest and Natural Resources Management uses GIS to focus on forest management and planning, including inventory analysis, harvest planning and multiple use management. Since resources management is essentially spatial in nature, both undergraduate and graduate programs benefit from these technologies.

Landscape Architecture students and faculty are interested in the application of CAD, GIS, and video technologies for landscape analysis, planning and design. These technologies are integrated into required coursework, and advanced bachelor’s and master’s degree students may pursue additional learning in computer applications.

The Regional Campuses

www.esf.edu/campuses

Students participate in hands-on and laboratory work on approximately 25,000 acres of forest property located on the College’s regional campuses and field stations. When these properties are taken into account, SUNY-ESF offers its students and faculty access to one of the largest college campuses in the world.

Cranberry Lake Campus

www.esf.edu/clbs

The Cranberry Lake Campus consists of approximately 1,000 acres of forested property in the northwestern Adirondacks bounded by 150,000 acres of New York forest preserve lands and Cranberry Lake.

Situated within the 984-acre Charles Lathrop Pack Experimental Forest, ESF’s Cranberry Lake Biological Station is home to a 10-week summer field program in environmental biology. The facilities are intensely used during the summer in a comprehensive curriculum of upper-division and graduate-level courses. Use of the campus before and after the summer session varies to include individual research projects, cooperative studies with other agencies, and visits by groups from both the College and other institutions.

Newcomb Campus

www.esf.edu/aec

Located in the central Adirondack Mountains, the Newcomb Campus is the largest of the regional campuses and home to the Adirondack Ecological Center (AEC), where extensive studies of animal biology and ecology are conducted. This campus contains a wide variety of vegetative types and wildlife. It is the site of a year-round general research and forest management program.

The Huntington Wildlife Forest, a 15,000-acre property, provides an exceptional resource for experimentation in ecology and natural resources management. It contains several small bodies of water including Rich Lake. The Adirondack Interpretive Center, under cooperative agreement with the Adirondack Park Agency, is located on the property and open to the public throughout the year.

Tully Campus

www.esf.edu/campuses/tully.htm

The Tully Campus consists of the Heiberg Memorial Forest and the Tully Field Station. It is located about 25 miles south of Syracuse.

Heiberg Memorial Forest, situated on the northern end of the Allegheny Plateau, includes 3,000 acres of diverse terrain and forest growth. The forest is used as an outdoor teaching laboratory and for intensive research and public service activities. Classroom buildings accommodate instruction and public service programs. The forest is actively managed for forest products including wood products, Christmas trees, maple syrup, clean water and wildlife. Visitors use the property for a wide variety of outdoor recreation activities.

Wanakena Campus

www.esf.edu/rangerschool

The Wanakena Campus is situated on the western plateau of the “Lakes Region’’ of the Adirondacks. Located on the Oswegatchie River about 65 miles northeast of Watertown and 35 miles west of Tupper Lake, it includes the James F. Dubuar Forest and the SUNY-ESF Ranger School.

The campus and its 2,800-acre instructional and demonstration forest support the College’s associate in applied science degree programs in forest technology and land surveying technology. It is the oldest forest technician program in the country.

The campus also is home to the Summer Session in Field Forestry, a seven-week session devoted to introductory instruction in field forestry principles and techniques. Attendance at this session is required for all students entering forest resources management and forest ecosystem science.

Warrensburg Campus

The Warrensburg Campus, in the southeastern Adirondacks, consists of the Charles Lathrop Pack Demonstration Forest, an area of some 2,600 acres of heavily forested land noted for its eastern white pine stands. The forest has been under intensive management since 1927 for the combined purposes of instruction, research and demonstration in forestry and allied fields. Pack Forest also hosts the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation’s Environmental Education Camp and the home office of the Greater Adirondack Resource Conservation and Development Council. A one-mile wheelchair-accessible nature trail is open to the public, and the property is used by thousands of visitors for day-use recreation.

Field Stations

ESF operates several field stations, which directly support the instruction, research and public service programs of the institution.

The 44-acre Forest Experiment Station in Syracuse is located about three miles from the main campus and is used to support main campus academic and research programs. The station includes a tree nursery, four arboreta, four greenhouses and a research laboratory. The Field Station in Tully has 66 acres devoted to both short- and long-term out-plantings in support of various research projects. An irrigation system and layout of level planting sites makes it an excellent facility for developing hybrids, grafting, conducting short-term experiments, and for heritability research. Both the Experiment Station and the Field Station are used extensively for public recreation such as hiking and cross-country skiing.

The College also owns a magnificent island, featuring the Ellis International Laboratory, in the heart of the Thousand Islands/St. Lawrence River area off the village of Clayton. Accessible only by boat, Governor’s Island is home to ESF’s Thousand Islands Biological Station and is an appropriate spot for the college-wide, cooperative, and international environmental monitoring and research activities conducted in the St. Lawrence Seaway area. Additional information is provided at: www.esf.edu/tibs/

The College has recently established a new field station for tropical studies in the Central American nation of Costa Rica. The 30-acre site near the Pacific coast contains a mix of dry tropical forest and pastureland, along with a wealth of vegetation and animal life. It is located on property that once operated as a farm and was donated to the College in 2007 by Arthur Sundt, a 1959 graduate of ESF, and his wife, Mary.