Meet our Stations!
We are very fortunate to have student groups, research groups, and community partners collaborate with us and provide you with a variety of environmentally themed activities!
Scroll below to learn about who our collaborators are and the types of activities that will be offered!
Register for Tours throughout the Kickoff Event here, or visit our Activity Tables between 10:00 AM to 3:00 PM on April 26th, 2025.
The EcoBlitz Kickoff Event is happening rain or shine! Tours will be leaving as scheduled from Lot M (blue square) and the activity tables will be in the Appalachian Collegiate Center lounge (orange square). The best places to park will be Lot M or Lot Y2.
Table: "BUgs!"
Affiliated with the Prior, Powell, Zhu Labs
The Binghamton "BUgs!" group is an outreach program that serves to educate the public about insect diversity and their important roles, both from an ecological perspective and a societal perspective. One activity is going to be creating a dirt cup, which is going to be both a delicious snack and representative of the local soil ecology. Another activity is going to be an insect identification station with a dissecting microscope so that kids can get a closer look at the critters surrounding us!
http://www.priorecologylab.com/
http://www.powellevolab.com/people.html
Table: Zero Hour Binghamton
Zero Hour Binghamton is an environmental justice organization that unites Binghamton students and the local community to take meaningful action in the fight against climate change. We are a coalition of students working for a just and greener world. Join Zero Hour at their table for an activity and to hear about their upcoming events.
https://bengaged.binghamton.edu/zhb/home/
Instagram: @thisiszerohour/bing
Table: Binghamton Sustainability Hub
The Sustainability Hub is a physical and virtual space that seeks to foster collaboration, cultivate connection, and bolster engagement for all things sustainability-related on campus. The Hub hosts events, creates programming, provides access to curated information and resources, highlights the work being done by faculty, students, staff, and local community members, and looks to support any additional sustainability efforts taking place within the campus community. The overall goal of the Sustainability Hub is to support the long-term cultivation of a campus-wide culture where sustainability efforts are valued, recognized, and easily accessible. Visit their table to make paper pots from recycled books and plant seeds from the seed library!
Table: Plant-Ecosystem Lab at Binghamton University
The Plant-Ecosystem Lab at Binghamton University is a research group interested in understanding the ways that biodiversity supports ecosystem health, with a current project looking at increasing lawn biodiversity and how this impacts lawn responses to drought. They will provide materials associated with the Upper Susquehanna Coalition focused on creating Nutrient Management Plans for private homeowners thinking about how they manage their lawns. Their table will have fun plant/flower/bee stickers for kids to decorate as well as envelopes of clover seeds for folks to take home and add to their lawns!
Table: Citizens' Climate Lobby at Binghamton (CCL)
CCL is a bipartisan nonprofit grassroots organization that is focused on national legislation and lobbying elected officials regarding environmental issues.
Instagram: @binghamtonccl
Table: Three Sisters Sovereignty Garden
The Three Sisters Sovereignty Garden was founded in May 2022 as a true Land Acknowledgement in collaboration with Binghamton University and the Onondaga Nation Farm, bringing Indigenous seeds back to ancestral lands of the Haudenosaunee that the university now inhabits. This project, in the spirit of the Two-Row Wampum, symbolizes the shared responsibility and commitment between the Haudenosaunee Confederacy and Binghamton University to create space for Indigenous people, knowledge, and pedagogy in higher education. Our group will display a few varieties of Indigenous seeds and corn braids gathered from the Three Sisters Sovereignty Garden last fall. There will be information on the project, and the students will discuss the garden and Indigenous seed sovereignty.
To learn more about their current Chronolog project:
https://www.chronolog.io/site/BUC106
Image Credit: Jonathan Cohen , 2022
Table: Recycling/Composting for Cornell Cooperative Extension of Broome County
The Cornell Cooperative Extension of Broome County engages with the community to solve and respond to key environmental challenges, reduce, and make more equitable our collective use of the Earth's resources, and inspire respect for natural systems and our reliance on them. Their table will have a Compost Critter Search Activity, in which participants can search and interact with common composting decomposers like isopods, millipeds, springtails etc. while learning about the importance of composting in combating climate change and reducing food waste.
Handles: Cornell Cooperative Extension-Broome County @cce_broome
Table: Friends of Recreation, Conservation, & Environmental Stewardship (FORCES)
The mission of FORCES is to engage New York State college students to simultaneously improve OPRHP resources and enrich student academic, recreational and career opportunities. Visit their interactive table and open fielding questions about our organization.
Instagram: @forcesnys
Facebook: https://m.facebook.com/FORCESNYS
Table: Network for a Sustainable Tomorrow (NEST)
NEST is a non-profit organization in Binghamton that works with community partners to generate social, environmental, and economic justice and equity in the Southern Tier. Their table will have an information clean energy matching game.
Website: nynest.org
Instagram and Twitter: @NY_NEST
Facebook: NetworkforaSustainableTomorrow
Table: Binghamton Art Club (BAC)
Binghamton Art Club is a community of artists who come together to share their ideas, creations, and love for the arts. We welcome everyone with an open mind to bring forward the free spirit element of art.
Here is the link to our linktree:
Table: Phoebe's First Forage
Visit this table to learn about children's books on ecological processes such as seed dispersal.
Table: Binghamton Up-Cycle Project (B-UP)
Table: 1M Ready Binghamton
1M Ready Binghamton is an organization on campus that empowers students, faculty, and community members to implement small changes into their daily lives that reduce their carbon footprint. We invite people to sign up to take the carbon challenge and see how much of an impact these small changes can have. Stop by their table to learn about the campaign and pick up environmentally-friendly swag items!
Check out their Website and/or give them a follow on Instagram
Table: Funga of Binghamton University
Join the Funga of Binghamton University's table to learn about the diversity of fungi and fungal specimens collected around campus.
The Funga of Binghamton will also be going on a tour of the Nature Preserve focused on mycological diversity.
Photo by Mason Unrau on Unsplash
Tour: Birding Walks
Audubon Society
(BU Student Association)
The Binghamton Audubon Society seeks to provide people with an opportunity to learn more about ornithology, as well as gain a sense of confidence in bird watching. Join them on their birding walks!
Table - EcoBlitz: How to!
This table will introduce you to the purpose of the EcoBlitz event and describe how to navigate the iNaturalist app. We will go over safety and some basic definitions to get you started on making your own observations! Enjoy using the iNaturalist app while participating in crafts and other activities!
Tour: Plants
Join us for a tour of the plants in the Nature Preserve and learn about land plant evolution.
Tour: Early Spring Events in Nature
Join us for a tour of early spring events in nature with emphasis on spring forest wildflowers and invasive plants.