Organization of Biological Field Stations

Research and Archival Documents

• OBFS Brochure (PDF)
• Sustainable Biological Field Stations (PDF)
• An Operations Manual for Field Stations and Marine Laboratories  (PDF)
• The Role of Biological Field Stations in Education and Recruitment into the Biological Sciences 1982 (PDF)

Journal Articles

• What Are Undergraduates Doing at Biological Field Stations and Marine Laboratories?
  Janet Hodder. BioScience, Vol. 59 No. 8. September 2009.
• Biological Field Stations: Research Legacies and Sites for Serendipity. 
  W. K. Michener et al.  BioScience, Vol. 59 No. 4.  April 2009.
• The Activities and Importance of International Field Stations
  R. L. Wyman et al. BioScience, Vol. 59 No. 7. July/August 2009.
• The Importance of Biological Field Stations 
  Edward O. Wilson. BioScience, Vol. 32, No. 5. May 1982.
• For Love of Nature: Exploration and Discovery at Biological Field Stations
  Thomas Eisner.  BioScience, Vol. 32, No. 5.  May, 1982.
• Human Carrying Capacity, Extinctions, and Nature Reserves
  Paul R. Ehrlich.  BioScience, Vol. 32, No. 5.  May, 1982.
• The Role of Field Stations in the Preservation of Biological Diversity
  Peter F. Brussard.  BioScience, Vol. 32, No. 5.  May, 1982
• Long-term Ecological Research
  James T. Callahan.  BioScience, Vol. 34, No. 6, Jun., 1984.
• Fieldism Jack P. Hailman. BioScience, Vol. 23, No. 3. March 1973.
• Inland Biological Field Station of the United States
  M. Dale Arvey and William Riemer.  Bioscience Vol 16 No. 4 1966 (PDF)