Jay Curtis Stager (born July 29, 1956) is an author, radio co-host, musician, and professor of natural sciences at Paul Smith's College[1] in the Adirondack Mountains of upstate New York, where he holds the Draper-Lussi Endowed Chair in Lake Ecology and Paleoecology.

His research [3] in Africa and the Adirondacks has focused on the use of lake sediment cores[4] to reconstruct past climates, evolution, and human impacts on ecosystems over centuries to thousands of years.

A reviewer for the fifth assessment report of the Intergovernmental Panel of Climate Change, he has published several dozen papers in Science, PNAS, and other journals, and has written for National Geographic Magazine, The New York Times, and other periodicals for general audiences.

Since 1990 he has co-hosted Natural Selections a weekly science program on North Country Public Radio.

[5] A YouTube video of Curt playing guitar for a pet crow that appeared online in 2015 gained over 100k views on the site.