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Year Founded
Year Joined OBFS
Size of Field Station (hectares)
1001-2500
FSML Web Address
https://www.obfs.org/

Private nonprofit organization?
Yes and Yes
Universities affiliated / Parent Organization
No
Federal, state, or local governmental partners?
LTER
Member of the Virtual Field
No

Additional Information

Private nonprofit organization?
Names of Universities affilated
0
Federal, state, or local governmental partners?
LTER
Name of partner
many
Tribal partners/users
No
MSI/HBCU users
No
Community College users
No
Member of the Virtual Field
No

Visiting a FS/ML

Open to the Public
No
Year round staff
3-5
Seasonal staff
1-2
Overnight housing facilities/# of beds
0
Distance to emergency services
0-20 minutes
Library
No
Hiking trails
No
Internship employment
No

Environmental Information

Biomes
Temperate Forest
Minimum Elevation
0-100 meters
Maximum Elevation
751-1500 meters
Köppen climate classification
C (temperate)
Freshwater habitats
No
Urban or rural
urban
Agricultural fields
No

Research

REU host station
No
Dry lab space
No
Wet Lab space
No
Research vessels available
No
GIS capacity on site
No
Long term data sets
No
On site herbarium or voucher species
Formal Data Management Plan
No
Mesocosms, plots, stream diversions, or other sets ups for outdoor manipulative experiments
No
Date Joined OBFS
August 6, 2023

Events

American Philosophical Society Symposium. The Future of Field Work: The Promise and Perils of Research in the Twenty-First Century

American Philosophical Society Symposium. The Future of Field Work: The Promise and Perils of Research in the Twenty-First Century

To mark the twentieth anniversary of the  Lewis and Clark Fund for Exploration and Field Research, the American Philosophical Society will hold an international symposium that explores the current state of field work and its possible future directions. The conference will be held October 23–24, 2025, at the American Philosophical Society in Philadelphia.    The Lewis…
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Deadline to sign up for the Virtual Field Research Coordination Network

Deadline to sign up for the Virtual Field Research Coordination Network

We still have room available to join this year’s Virtual Field RCN cohort. Faculty participants in this RCN will implement the Virtual Field (TVF) products (EE-videos, 360-degree videos, and Live from the Field events) in their undergraduate classrooms and FSML participants will learn how to create content for TVF! What’s included? Faculty participants will receive…
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Special OBFS Board Meeting

Special OBFS Board Meeting

The OBFS Board meets every 8 weeks but we are having a special meeting on December 5 (1 PM ET) to finish the meeting started during our annual conference. All OBFS members are welcome to attend. Please contact Beth Norman (secretary@obfs.org) for more information.
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News And Updates

OBFS Partners with the Climate Toolkit

The Phipps Conservatory’s Climate Toolkit is partnering with the Organization of Biological Field Stations to expand its reach beyond zoos and aquaria, museums and science centers, gardens and arboreta. Through…

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OBFS August 2024 Newsletter

Read the August 2024 OBFS Newsletter here!

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Flathead Lake Biological Station Awarded $9.5M for Ocean Climate Change Science

Origionally published by NBC KTVH By: UM News Service Posted at 6:11 PM, Jun 16, 2024 A new research project led by the University of Montana’s Flathead Lake Biological Station…

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OBFS Newsletter – Request for Content

We are requesting content for our Quarterly OBFS Newsletter used to highlight our member field stations. The deadline to submit for the May 2024 newsletter is 15-April-2024.   The newsletter is a vital component of OBFS’s reach and…

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Biological field stations deliver high return on investment for conservation, study finds

A new study authored by 173 conservation researchers shows the important role field stations play in conservation. Mongabay just published an article about the study that features OBFS. It’s a…

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Announcing the Creation of the Philippe Cohen and Cindy Stead OBFS Endowment

At the annual OBFS meeting at La Selva Costa Rica, long time board members and field station directors Philippe Cohen and Cindy Stead made a game changing announcement. They have…

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(IDEA+) committee

For OBFS to fulfill our mission and serve our members effectively, the organization and its members must work to prevent bias, discrimination, and dismantle systemic racism and its legacy effects….

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Job Postings

Hill Country Field Station Manager, Texas Field Station Network, Biodiversity Center

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Director of the Mpala Secretariat, Princeton University

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Website Coordinator

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Director of Science and the Pinelands Research Institute

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PhD level Aquatic Research Scientist Trout Lake Station

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Downeast Institute postdoc opportunity

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