Chair and Director
Suburban Biodiversity Conservation Center
Advancing Conservation and Empowering Communities
The Conservation Center provides teaching, training, and research to advance biodiversity conservation, ecosystem protection, wildlife conservation, and smart environmental decision-making in the Lower Hudson Valley, with an emphasis on the just development of healthy and diverse communities.
Our Focus
Education
Located in the Department of Environmental Studies and Science, the Conservation Center provides traditional and nontraditional students with opportunities for training in biodiversity and wildlife conservation to help meet regional environmental challenges.
You can engage with the Conservation Center through courses, fieldwork, community-serving collaborations and projects, and publicly accessible programming.
Our Focus
Research
The Conservation Center supports research in biodiversity, wildlife conservation, environmental policy, environmental justice, and more, in urban and suburban contexts. Through course projects, internships, research, and community service, students gain hands-on experience by applying classroom knowledge to regional environmental challenges.
Students work directly with community members such as municipalities, nonprofits, and other community organizations to build meaningful solutions.
Our Focus
Community Engagement
The Conservation Center supports local engagement efforts by responding to community voices and needs. Pace University students, faculty, and staff collaborate with the community to help identify, assess, and communicate issues around environmental conservation and community improvement.
These collaborations can include providing essential data and analysis, advocating for specific policy issues, and developing experiential learning opportunities and trainings.
The Conservation Center
The Conservation Center encompasses a variety of natural and social resources on Pace University’s Westchester campus, including hiking trails, facilities, meadows, wetlands, streams, gardens, animal enclosures, and ponds, which makes it an excellent base for students interested in environmental conservation.
Meet Our Faculty and Staff
Clinical Professor
Clinical Professor
Program Manager
Conservation Center Manager