Blake Williams Biological Field Research Station

The Blake Williams Biological Field Station is aimed to provide access to anyone from any background and capabilities to study the Chihuahuan Desert. 

 

The Chihuahuan Desert Preserve Association (CDPA) is a 501(c)3 charitable association whose mission is to develop, establish, monitor, and maintain adequate and active procedures and programs that lead to conservation of threatened, at risk, recently delisted, or endangered habitats and species of plants and animals through ongoing education, research, restoration of habitat, and the development of outreach activities. This would include, but not be limited to: environmental studies, educational (STEM) programs held at the Blake Williams Biological Research Station on the Preserve, and CDPA scholarships for research opportunities, enhancement/or restoration of habitats, surveys and inventories of species within habitats, propagation and genetic research, and long term programs that are used to preserve a given species and educate the public on the need for conservation, which may ultimately go a long way towards eventually removing these species from the endangered list.

Year Founded
2021
Year Joined OBFS
2023
Size of Field Station (hectares)
1001-2500
FSML Web Address
https://desertresearch.org

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

Additional Information

Private nonprofit organization?
Names of Universities affilated
0
Federal, state, or local governmental partners?
No
Name of partner
Tribal partners/users
Yes
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
6-10
Seasonal staff
3-5
Overnight housing facilities/# of beds
1-10
Distance to emergency services
21-40 minutes
Library
Yes
Hiking trails
No
Internship employment
No

Environmental Information

Biomes
Desert
Minimum Elevation
751-1500 meters
Maximum Elevation
1501-3000 meters
Köppen climate classification
B (arid)
Freshwater habitats
No
Urban or rural
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
Yes
Date Joined OBFS
July 28, 2024