Education
2025 Trail Survey Program – Season Recap
The 2025 Trail Survey Program Has Concluded! We cannot thank everyone enough for your hard work! Even with a delayed start, you delivered an outstanding volume of observations from trails across the Finger Lakes. Your commitment as community scientists plays a crucial role in advancing invasive species research and management. The information gathered through the Trail […]
Citizen Science At Its Finest: Scraping Spotted Lanternfly Egg Masses to Protect the FLX
The Finger Lakes Partnership for Regional Invasive Species Management (PRISM) hosted a Spotted Lanternfly Egg Mass Scraping Workshop on November 15th, 2025, yielding a robust turnout of over thirty eager participants. Attendees of the workshop were able to get up close with the invasive spotted lanternfly (SLF) and its egg masses, gaining insight into one […]
New York Invasive Species Awareness Week! (June 3rd-June 9th)
Invasive Species Awareness Week 2024 in the Finger Lakes Join us in celebrating NY Invasive Species Awareness Week! Invasive Species Awareness Week is back and better than ever! See our lineup of events below to find out what is going on in your area and how you can participate! Email gallo@hws.edu with any questions. […]
New York Invasive Species Awareness Week! (June 5th-June11th)
Invasive species are our specialty, so we have a few events going on to help you celebrate this year’s NY Invasive Species Awareness Week! Taking place from Monday, June 5th to Sunday, June 11th, this is the perfect opportunity to get outside and look at invasive species threatening ecosystems in the Finger Lakes region. Whether […]
Spring Webinar Series
We are thrilled to announce our 2023 Spring Webinar Series! On March 23rd, Jose Andres from Cornell University will join us to discuss his research in environmental DNA (eDNA), and how this research impacts invasive species management. This webinar will be a great resource for audiences hoping to learn more about environmental DNA, the current […]
Come join us in the field!
Looking to get outside? We’ll be hosting several hiking and paddling events throughout the month of August and we are looking for people to join us! Whether you are someone who is wanting to learn more about invasive species, or someone who just likes to be outside, then consider these events below! Saturday, August 14th, […]
Invasive Species Webinar Series!
PREVIOUS WEBINARS: PAST: Protecting Rare Species from Invasives in the Finger Lakes Presenter: Steve Young, Chief Botanist, NY Natural Heritage Program When: Jan 12, 2021 11:00 AM Eastern Time (US and Canada) Meeting Recording: https://hws.zoom.us/rec/share/4vjU_6x44V4RFNgW7kL0sEU3_LPYfQ6e8rCaaGjH1uY92B78O-UWDb04M4FYpNJO.ZLsgs5tX9k6wcWok A Review of AIS Monitoring in the Finger Lakes, 2016-2020 Presenter: Kathryn Monacelli, Finger Lakes Institute at Hobart and William […]
Improving Ecosystems with Aquatic Plants
Wetland restoration is critical for improving ecosystem services, but many aquatic plant nurseries do not have facilities similar to those typically used for large-scale plant production.
