Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Units Program: New York
Education, Research and Technical Assistance for Managing Our Natural Resources

Sustainable siting of renewable energy for people and planet: With funding from the Cornell Atkinson Center for Sustainability, we are building off of traditional solar technical potential models focused on interconnection and roads, we are integrating social and biodiversity datasets and field-collected data on biodiversity response to terrestrial and floating solar energy siting decisions into landscape-scale energy modeling to identity solar siting practices on land and water that meet climate goals while conserving surface area for conservation and ecosystems services.