- Abisko Scientific Research Station, Sweden - http://www.kiruna.se/forskning/ans/
Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. Investigations within many areas of biosciences and geosciences, emphasizing plant ecology and meteorology. Studies on the dynamics of plant populations and to identify the controlling factors at their latitudinal and altitudinal limits. Meteorological projects deal with recent climate changes in the region, and also with local variations of the microclimate in subalpine and alpine ecosystems.
- Biological Resources Division - USGS - http://biology.usgs.gov/
Providing the scientific understanding and technologies needed to support sound management and conservation of our Nation's biological resources - National Biological Information Infrastructure.
- Conservation Biology Institute Home - http://www.consbio.org/
Varied research projects requireing solutions by broadly trained individuals representing a range of disciplines and skills. Collaborating professionals address the most pressing conservation problems today.
- Joseph W. Jones Ecological Research Center - http://www.jonesctr.org
The Joseph W. Jones Ecological Research Center is dedicated to providing a program of excellence in ecology and natural resource management that includes integrated research, education, and conservation goals.
- Organization of Biological Field Stations - http://www.obfs.org/
An association of more than 200 field stations and professionals concerned with field facilities for biological research and education, primarily in North America and Central America. This site provides links to OBFS member stations.
- The Ecosystems Center - http://ecosystems.mbl.edu/
Part of the Marine Biology Lab, Woods Hole, Massachusetts. Investigates the structure and functioning of ecological systems.
- Cawthron Institute - http://www.cawthron.org.nz
A private research institute, specializing in aquaculture, marine biosecurity, coastal & estuarine ecology, freshwater ecology, and analytical laboratory services.
- PNNL Ecology Group - http://www.pnl.gov/ecology/
The Ecology Group engages in research activities in aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems. We develop integrated ecological resource assessments, restoration and management tools, and ecological research techniques, including statistical design and predictive modeling and mapping of sensitive habitats.
- Centre For Environmental Stress and Adaptation Research - http://www.cesar.latrobe.edu.au/
The overall aim of CESAR is to understand the main issues and mechanisms involved with adaptation of organisms to stress factors found in the changing environment using experimental model systems.
- Complex Systems Research Center - http://www.csrc.sr.unh.edu/
Center investigates the effects of human disturbance on the Earth's biogeochemical processes.
- Applied Ecology Research Group - http://aerg.canberra.edu.au/pub/aerg/
Ecology minded division from the U. of Canberra in Australia. Broad ecological topics including Herpetology related links, caresheets, and scientific reviews.
- Florida Center for Environmental Studies - http://www.ces.fau.edu/
Researches Tropical/Subtropical Water Dominated Ecosystems. Facilitates and coordinates environmental research and training, and communicates environmental knowledge.
- The Center for Ecological Health Research (CEHR) - http://ice.ucdavis.edu/cehr/
It is one of four environmental research Center established in 1991 by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. The central goal of the Center is to understand how multiple stresses interact to affect biological and ecological processes in aquatic and terrestrial systems.
- Taiga Biological Station - http://www.wilds.mb.ca/taiga/
Abstracts and annual reports from over 20 years of university biology research on various biological aspects of the northern boreal forest at Wallace Lake, Manitoba, Canada.
- Center for Statistical Ecology and Environmental Statistics - http://www.stat.psu.edu/%7Egpp/
Broad research areas of the Center relate to statistical ecology, environmental statistics, and quantitative risk analysis, with emphasis on mathematical statistics, statistical methodology, and data interpretation and improvement for future use. The adopted approach is to advance statistics for environment, ecology, and environmental health, and to advance environmental and ecological theory and practice using valid statistics. (Pennsylvania State University, USA).
- Global Terrestrial Observing System (GTOS) - http://www.fao.org/gtos/
GTOS mission is to provide policy makers, resource managers and researchers with the data they need to detect, quantify, locate and understand changes (especially reductions) in the capacity of terrestrial ecosystems to support sustainable development.
- Coastal Ecosystems Research Foundation (CERF) - http://cerf.bc.ca/index.asp
The CERF is a non-profit organization whose aim is to fund ecological research through eco-tourism. Research is presently focused on the whales and dolphins of British Columbia's Central Coast.
- Institute for Applied Ecology - http://www.appliedeco.org/
Conducts research on the conservation of natural resources in Oregon and beyond. Project descriptions, internship program, and links. Based in Corvallis, Oregon.
- The Louis Calder Center - http://www.fordham.edu/calder_center/
A biological field station at Fordham University established in 1967 for ecological research and environmental education.
- Savannah River Ecology Laboratory - http://www.uga.edu/srel
Research related to environmental effects from DOE nuclear facilities near Aiken, South Carolina, including radioecology, ecotoxicology, phytoremediation, herpetology, environmental chemistry, and ecological stewardship.
- Sustainable Ecosystems Institute - http://www.sei.org/
Research center works to sustain natural communities and the human communities that depend on them using science-based cooperative solutions.
- The Dish - http://dish.stanford.edu/
Describes the foothills at Stanford University, popularly known as "The Dish," and used for academic research, ecological conservation, and restorations.
- Wenatchee Forestry Sciences Lab - http://www.fs.fed.us/pnw/wenlab/
At the forefront of some of the finest ecological research in the nation, this facility and staff offers world-class investigations on forest and rangeland ecosystems.
- South Florida Information Access - http://sofia.usgs.gov
Discusses research by the US Geological Survey's South Florida Ecosystem Program. Includes studies of hydrology, cycling of mercury contamination, coastal wetlands , and other areas of environmental concern.
- Cerro de la Muerte Biological Station -- Costa Rica - http://www.public.iastate.edu/~fvalverd/cerro.html
The station is a living library focused on teaching and research. The major objective is to preserve the paramo's biodiversity and Costa Rica's highest watershed.
- Center for the Study of the Environment - http://www.naturestudy.org/
Private not-for-profit organization, providing information, identification, analysis and optimal solutions to environmental problems. Science based projects are conducted on global, regional and local scales.
- Mountain Research Station - http://www.Colorado.EDU/mrs/
Research facility devoted to the advancement of study of montane environmental science. The center supports research in biology, geography, and geology.
- Center for Biological Resource Recovery - http://www.uga.edu/rcisp/cfbrr.htm
Conducts basic research in areas related to the use of microorganisms in biotechnology and in solving environmental and ecological problems.
- Natural Resource Ecology Laboratory - http://www.nrel.colostate.edu/
An interdisciplinary ecosystem science research center within the College of Natural Resources of Colorado State University (CSU).
- Center for Global Change - http://www.cgc.uaf.edu/
The focal point of this facility at the University of Alaska Fairbanks is for developing, coordinating and implementing interdisciplinary research and education related to the role of the Arctic and sub-Arctic in the Earth system, and to stimulate and facilitate global change research in this region.
- Smithsonian Environmental Research Center - http://www.serc.si.edu/
Ecological research center in Edgewater, Maryland, on the shore of Chesapeake Bay. Uses the geographic features of the largest estuary in the U.S. to investigate interconnections of physical and biotic components of complex landscapes.
- Myvatn Research Station - http://www.hi.is/HI/Stofn/Myvatn/
A major source of information about research, natural history and conservation of the Lake Myvatn area, Iceland. Complete bibliography.
- Niwot Ridge Long-Term Ecological Research Program - http://culter.colorado.edu:1030/
Established to conduct research on long-term ecological phenomena in an array of ecosystems within the United States. Niwot Ridge is the sole alpine tundra site and is located approximately 35 km west of Boulder, CO.
- International Arctic Research Center - http://www.iarc.uaf.edu/
The primary goals of the IARC are to study arctic climate change and its global feedbacks and consequences and to plan and carry out international cooperative arctic research of the highest possible quality.
- Institute of Biology, Komi Scientific Center - http://ib.ksc.komi.ru/
Institution in the Russian Academy of Sciences system that conducts fundamental ecobiological research in order to find complex solutions to problems of rational nature use in the European Northeast of Russia.
- NOAA Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory - http://www.glerl.noaa.gov/
The NOAA Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory (GLERL)conducts integrated, interdisciplinary environmental research in support of resource management and environmental services in coastal and estuarine waters, with a special emphasis on the Great Lakes.
- The Horn Point Laboratory - http://www.hpl.umces.edu/
(HPL) is an environmental research facility of the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science.
- Cape Tribulation Tropical Research Station - http://www.austrop.org.au
In Queensland, Australia, this is the only research facility in the coastal lowland seasonally-wet tropical rainforests of Australia. The dominant forest type is complex mesophyll vine forest. Opportunities exist for research, volunteers and study.
- Prince William Sound Science Center - http://www.pwssc.gen.ak.us/pwssc/pwssc.html
An independent, non-profit research organization located in Cordova in southeastern Prince William Sound, Alaska. The Science Center was established in 1989 to conduct and facilitate scientific studies on the ecology of the region. The Center's programs take an ecosystem approach to research, monitoring and management of natural resources.
- University of Florida Center for Natural Resources - http://cnr.ifas.ufl.edu/
The Center was established in 1973 as a multi-disciplinary unit, separate from but affiliated with numerous IFAS departments and research and extension facilities throughout Florida.
- Environment & Energy - http://web.egr.msu.edu/DER/research/ee.htm
The wise utilization and management of our natural resources is a primary focus for researchers in Michigan State University's College of Engineering.
- Tall Timbers Research Station - http://www.talltimbers.org/
Conducts research aimed at providing practical solutions to land management problems, and to provide basic insights into how southern pine forests function as dynamic ecosystems. Site includes the E.V. Komarek Fire Ecology Database online. Located in Northern Florida and Southern Georgia.
- Urban Ecology Research Project - http://www.urbaneco.washington.edu/
Research and education in urban ecology at the University of Washington at Seattle. Data, models, research, projects and courses in urban ecology.
- Centre for Population Biology - http://www.cpb.bio.ic.ac.uk/
Research in population biology and related disciplines to understand and predict the functioning of ecological systems, from populations to ecosystems. (Imperial College, University of London, UK).
- MeadWestvaco Wildlife and Ecosystem Research Forest - http://www.mwerf.org/
Research on interactions of modern industrial forestry, long term ecological processes, forest sustainability, and biodiversity within the Appalachian landscape. Location: West Virginia (USA).
- Picoflor Research Centre, Tambopata - http://uk.geocities.com/johndavid_taylor/picaflor3/
Picaflor Research Centre is a remote field station in the Peruvian rainforest, established to encourage research and promote conservation in an area of outstanding biological interest.
- Centre for Ecology, Evolution and Conservation, University of East Anglia - http://www.uea.ac.uk/ceec/
A group of 21 faculty, with interests in behavioural ecology, biodiversity, biogeochemistry, ecophysiology, genetics, environmental genomics, life histories, pollution, population biology, tropical, landscape, microbial, molecular and restoration ecology.
- The CRC for Australian Weed Management - http://www.weeds.crc.org.au
Weeds CRC: Australian research into weed biology and ecology, risk assessment, biological control, herbicide resistance, crop & pasture management, environmental and agricultural weeds.
- Centre for Ecology & Hydrology - http://www.ceh.ac.uk/
A leading body in the United Kingdom for research and monitoring in terrestrial and freshwater sciences.
- Remote Sensing and Ecology Lab - http://www.ias.sdsmt.edu/rsel
Variety of projects aimed at using remote sensing technologies to understand ecosystem ecology across several scales of time and space.
- Natural Environment Research Council - http://www.nerc.ac.uk/
UK-based organization whose mission is to promote basic, strategic and applied research, survey, long-term environmental monitoring, and related postgraduate training.
- Western Forest Fire Research Center - http://www.cnr.colostate.edu/frws/research/westfire/
An interdisciplinary research facility based at Colorado State University covering socioeconomic and ecological aspects of forest fires.
- Hudson Bay Project - http://research.amnh.org/users/rfr/hbp/
A long-term study of Arctic coastal tundra ecosystems.
- Yellowstone Ecological Research Center - http://www.yellowstoneresearch.org/
Private, non-profit organization committed to long-term, ecosystem-wide research in the greater Yellowstone area.
- Organization for Tropical Studies, Costa Rica - http://www.ots.ac.cr
Programs for undergraduate and graduate students in tropical biology. Includes an overview of its facilities, information databases, courses, conservation activities, and volunteer opportunities.
- Center for the Environment - http://environment.cornell.edu/
Research, teaching, and outreach on environmental issues. Cornell University (New York, USA).
- Walker Branch Watershed Research Program - http://walkerbranch.ornl.gov/
The site of long-term, intensive environmental studies since the mid-1960's by staff from Oak Ridge National Laboratory the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, centered primarily on the geologic and hydrologic processes that control the amounts and chemistry of water moving through the watershed.
- Association of Ecosystem Research Centers - http://www.ecosystemresearch.org/
Group brings together 39 U.S. research programs in universities and private, state and federal laboratories that conduct research, provide training and analyze policy at the ecosystem level of environmental science and natural resources management.
- Midcontinent Ecological Science Center - http://www.mesc.usgs.gov/
US government center researching and developing technologies to understand and manage biological systems. Also inventory and monitor to assess biological status and trends. Fort Collins, Colorado.
- Columbia Mountains Institute of Applied Ecology - http://www.cmiae.org/
A non-profit society dedicated to facilitating applied ecological research in the Columbia Mountains of British Columbia, Canada and to making information available to managers, resource technicians, scientists, and the public.
- Ecostudies Institute - http://www.ecoinst.org/
Nonprofit scientific organization in Mt. Vernon, Washington, USA that conducts ecological studies to improve conservation, management, and restoration of native biodiversity.
- Mid-Atlantic Region Ecological Observatory (MAREO) - http://mareo.org
A research consortium of field stations and field research sites in the USA. Its objective is to understand ecological phenomena such as changes in land use, biodiversity, climate, invasive species, infections disease, and biogeochemical cycles.
- Ecodes - Desert Community Ecology - http://www.ege.fcen.uba.ar/Ecodes/Main.htm
Research team of ecologists working in the Monte desert, Argentina. The main research objectives are in the community ecology, particularly trying to understand the mutual relationship in the plant-seeds-consumers system.
- FRESC - Forest and Rangeland Ecosystem Science Center - http://fresc.usgs.gov/
A multi-disciplinary research center within the USGS Biological Resources Division. Provides scientific understanding and technology to support sound management and conservation of forest and rangeland ecosystems in the U.S. Pacific Northwest and Intermountain West.
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