CURE’s scientific staff described work across the New York metropolitan region and beyond, with investigations based at both Rutgers University and Brooklyn Botanic Garden.
Restoration under urban pressure
The recovered research overview identified work on invasive plants on National Park Service land in New Jersey, landscape-scale restoration in the Hackensack Meadowlands, and methods for transforming landfills into biodiverse, productive habitat. It also described investigations involving federal lands, urban forests, wetlands and tidal systems.
Metropolitan biodiversity
The Center emphasized that urban habitats can retain surprising biological diversity. Brooklyn Botanic Garden researchers were compiling present and historical plant records for counties within 50 miles of Manhattan. The collection—then described as exceeding 150,000 records—was intended to show how urbanization changes species and ecological processes and to support environmental policy.
Support and partnerships
The historical account names public support from the National Science Foundation, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, U.S. Department of Agriculture and National Park Service, alongside state and municipal agencies, foundations and individual benefactors.