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Schaefer retained many notebooks kept by the students who participated in the Atmospheric Sciences Program, as well as some of their final papers that detail the projects they worked on for eight weeks. Encouraged by Schaefer to do self-directed experiments, the students kept logs of observations and measurements to aid them in their final reports to staff and peers. A few also sketched illustrations to accompany their notes. Some of the papers in this subseries are final reports of the students' experiments while others are thoughts and reflections on the experience as a whole.

These files consist primarily of clippings and reprints.

This last subseries contains official reports by Schaefer on the activities of the Atmospheric Sciences Program and records its progress as it transforms into the Natural Sciences Institute at the State University of New York, Albany. Some of the reports cover the summer program as a whole, while others focus specifically on field station issues. There are also articles published by current and former students of the program as well as some articles published by Schaefer himself.

The majority of the administrative files consist of correspondence; as director of research and then overall director of the ASRC, Schaefer was in constant contact with administrators of SUNY Albany, local colleagues, and other professionals in the field. There are also documents dealing with budget issues, grant applications, conferences, and operation of the N.S.I. field stations.

Topics heavily represented in the subject files include American Indians, the Beat generation, civil rights and Black issues, Germany, John F. Kennedy, labor unions and labor issues, literary topics, neo-fascism and neo-Nazis, radical youth, refugees and expellees (especially post-war Germany), and World War II.

Schaefer saw research opportunities via the ASRC that promised to have national and even international implications as environmental concerns became more public in the 1960s and 1970s. He was engaged frequently to speak about his research, both to other professionals and to "everyday" people who might be interested in learning more about issues like acid rain or solar energy. He also participated on committees and commissions who were given the responsibility of investigating scientific dilemmas of the day and presenting findings to the government. This subseries contains materials from those speaking engagements, trips, and committees.

Although Schaefer had administrative duties as director of research, as well as overall director of the ASRC in later years, he still made as much time as possible for conducting his own research. In addition to experiments carried out in New York's Capital Region, he oversaw research at the Whiteface Mountain Field Station and Observatory as well as Flagstaff, Arizona, and led highly successful expeditions in the Yellowstone National Park. His fascination with particle studies continued during his ASRC years, leading to crucial investigations of carcinogens, acid rain, effects of particulate matter on global weather, aerosol studies, and much more. He also took great interest in alternative energy sources, solar energy specifically. Of course, cloud studies and ice-forming nuclei also remained a passion of Schaefer's. This subseries mainly consists of Schaefer's own investigations into those kinds of topics and offers a glimpse of his own notes, calculations, and observations on the subjects of interest to him.

This subseries consists primarily of clippings of articles from periodicals and includes numerous excerpts from the full-length novels of Jnger, as well as clippings of essayistic writings.

This section contains manuscripts of articles on Jnger, as well as clippings of published articles about Jnger in general, as well as reviews of individual works.