SUNY ESF
SUNY Center for Bioregional & Biosphere Reserve Studies

What We Do

The SUNY Center for Bioregional & UNESCO Biosphere Reserve Studies has several missions:

• To introduce ESF students to the global importance of bioregional planning, design and ecosystem management and to the global system of UNESCO biosphere reserves - what the United Nations calls "science for sustainability support sites" or "learning places for sustainable development"
• To support interdisciplinary graduate and undergraduate studies that prepare students for professional careers in bioregional / biosphere reserve planning, design and ecosystem management and for careers in research, teaching and community engagement
• To support the operations of the Champlain-Adirondack Biosphere Network through community capacity building, research, planning/design and ecosystem management studies and environmental monitoring
• To work with UNESCO biosphere reserves in the Great Lakes / St. Lawrence watershed to understand and enhance the role(s) of bioregionalism in protecting the world's largest fresh water system, and;
• To enhance the educational mission of SUNY-ESF by connecting the institution to the global environmental mission(s) of UNESCO