The overarching goal of the Adirondack Research Consortium is to promote and facilitate research that may be directly applicable to policy-making in the Adirondack Park of New York State and its environs. Towards this end, the transdisciplinary Annual Conference on the Adirondacks is the region's primary vehicle for professionals and academics to report on their research, share ideas, communicate with stakeholders, discuss funding sources, develop research agendas, and stimulate further study of this important region. The Sixth Annual Conference on the Adirondacks held at the Hotel Saranac, Saranac Lake, in May of 1999 marked the sixth general meeting of the Adirondack Research Consortium.

Papers, posters, discussion panels, and workshops that explore the cultural, historic, and philosophical aspects of the Adirondacks, the contributions of the social and natural sciences, and the problems of public/private management of complex natural & social systems are encouraged. Graduate and undergraduate students are strongly encouraged to participate in the conference through both paper and poster presentations. All student papers will be evaluated for an annual award.

From the Adirondack citizen to the university scholar, the ARC has sought to include the many voices of the region in this annual forum committed to discourse and debate under an umbrella of academic standard. Please feel free to browse the agenda and abstracts from past conferences to the left. We hope you'll join us at the next Annual Conference on the Adirondacks!