Spring 2001
Spring 2001
In 1996 funding from NSF allowed OBFS to
create a brochure and build a portable, free-standing display booth with text
and graphics to explain the importance of biological field stations and marine
laboratories to the public. The display is available for OBFS members to borrow
for use at professional meetings, open houses, field days, fundraisers, etc.
It is about 7'9" tall, 2 feet deep and 8 feet long with its own internal
lighting. Shipping costs may be reimbursable by OBFS. The text of the display
is also available in brochure form. Anyone interested in obtaining brochures
or borrowing the display should contact Nina Consolatti, Kellogg Biological
Station, 3700 East Gull Lake Drive, Hickory Corners, MI 49060. Phone: 616/671-2228;
E-mail: Consolatti@kbs.msu.edu.
Also available for the asking from Nina Consolatti
are hard copies of the NSF-sponsored workshop reports on data management at
field stations: Data Management at Biological Field Stations. Report of a Workshop
May 17-20, 1982. W. K. Kellogg Biological Station, Michigan State University
(the "green" book), and Data Management at Biological Field Stations
and Coastal Marine Laboratories. January 1992, Report of an Invitational Workshop,
April 22-26, 1990, W. K. Kellogg Biological Station, Michigan State University
(the "blue" book). Note that the 1992 report contains the 1982 report
as an appendix, and that both are available
electronically (courtesy of John Porter)