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Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies
The independent research institute in Millbrook, New York, founded by Gene Likens in 1983, that has served as Clive Jones's institutional home for most of his career and one of the world's leading centers for long-term ecosystem research.
The Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies (known as the Institute of Ecosystem Studies until 2008) was founded by acid-rain researcher Gene Likens as an independent research organization dedicated to long-term ecosystem research. Located on a former Mary Flagler Cary estate in the Hudson Valley, the institute has been the institutional setting for much of the foundational work on ecosystem engineering and related frameworks. Its commitment to long-timescale research created the conditions under which Jones's framework could develop.
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The institute's founding philosophy — that ecosystem research requires time scales that university tenure systems and typical grant cycles cannot accommodate — shaped the kind of science possible within its walls. Research programs at Cary routinely operate on decadal or longer timescales, permitting the study of slow-developing ecological processes that are invisible to shorter-duration work.
Beyond Jones's engineering framework, Cary has been central to research on