Cedar Point Biological Station

Cedar Point Biological Station (CPBS) is a full service UNL campus, a field research facility and an experiential classroom on the high plains of western Nebraska, adjacent to Lake McConaughy and Ogallala, NE. CPBS is part of UNL’s School of Biological Sciences, and College of Arts and Sciences. We are available for research and educational activities from May to August with a few scheduled events extending our season to late October. Since 1975, CPBS has offered field based, experiential courses that focus on student based research. Today, our regular biology and natural resource courses are joined by 300 level art, literature and other humanities in nature courses that focus on the surrounding natural environment. CPBS also hosts a range of scientific society meetings and workshops each year as well.

We supply rustic group housing for over 100 users, dining facilities, a library, WiFi Eduroam access, classroom spaces, lab spaces, over 950 acres o f prairie and juniper-filled canyons with easy lake access, and a friendly, inviting atmosphere to encourage regular collaboration among our users. The success of our courses and research programs result from the station being ideally situated in a diversity of aquatic and terrestrial habitats, notably the south edge of the largest area of vegetated sand dunes in the western hemisphere, the Nebraska Sandhills.

Our long-term aspiration at CPBS is to reduce all users fees to a nominal charge, and maintain an ecologically sustainable facility and resilient program in the broadest sense possible. Come help us achieve that goal.