An
interdisciplinary resident faculty and support staff maintain year round
activities within the Laboratories. The close proximity of varied
natural and managed habitats makes an ideal setting for education,
research, and training programs in ecology and evolutionary biology.
Graduate,
undergraduate, and pre-college classes are taught by resident and
visiting faculty. Undergraduate and graduate training programs
provide tomorrow's scientists with a broad knowledge of ecology and the
life sciences. Educational outreach programs, involving community
issues such as land use and k-12 science education, are carried out by
faculty, students, and staff.
Laboratory
research facilities are based in the 3-story Academic Building, which
houses research labs for faculty and visiting researchers;
common-equipment facilities and instruments; faculty, student, and administrative
offices; and classrooms, teaching labs, and computer workrooms.
Field
research facilities include the: Experimental
Ponds, a series of eighteen 30m diameter ponds with an
associated field laboratory; the LTER
Site, a series of agricultural and successional sites at which
long-term experiments in agricultural ecology are conducted; the Farming
Systems Center and Dairy, at which most Agricultural Experiment
Station (AES) research is conducted; the Research
Greenhouse, which houses experimental plant research adjacent to the
Academic Building; and the Field Laboratories, which include the Boathouse Lab on Gull Lake, the Plant Ecology Lab adjacent to successional fields, and the Pond Lab at the Experimental Ponds Facility.
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