My research program has been concentrated in two main areas: environmental systems and economic development in rural areas. Recently, the bulk of my research activities have moved to applied demography as the director of the Cornell Program on Applied Demographics (PAD). This program, funded by the NYS Dept. of Economic Development, is the NYS representative to the Census Bureau's Federal-State Cooperative on Population Estimates and Projections. We provide annual population estimates for the State, its Economic Districts and counties as well as updated population projections periodically. We are a participating member of the Cornell Population Center and collaborator of that program plus the Cornell Community and Regional Development Institute and the NYS Center for Rural Schools. We also undertake various demographic analyses with a strong emphasis on mapping and spatial analysis. We have created a digital atlas on all key variables from the 2010 Census and for the 2006-10 American Community Survey. We just completed an evaluation of the 2012 vintage Urban Areas (urban clusters and urbanized areas). Last year, we were a collaborating organization to the State of Upstate Conference sponsored by Cornell's Dept. of Development Sociology and the Community and Regional Development Institute. In the teaching area, we have been concentrated in one area since the inception of my appointment at Cornell University: research methods and statistics. I continue to offer graduate level courses in methods/statistics. Over the past several years, we introduced and continue to revise courses in geographical information systems (GIS), spatial analysis and spatial statistics.