Muller Field Station

  • Finger Lakes Community College's Muller Field Station (MFS) is located on a 48-acre property in Honeoye, NY, at the south end of Honeoye Lake. It sits upon the traditional lands and waters of the Seneca Nation, Onödowága: "Great Hill People" — the original stewards of this valley. Surrounded by lands protected by NYS Department of Environmental Conservation, The Nature Conservancy, and local land trusts, Muller Field Station is strategically located to provide immersive, experiential education and research opportunities. The Honeoye Lake watershed is a mosaic of 40 natural communities and home to over 1,200 species of trees, plants, fish, amphibians, insects, birds, and mammals.  Our property includes silver maple-ash swamp forests, the channel inlet, beaver dams, vernal pools, farm ponds, and successional fields. Facilities include a 24-bed bunkhouse, lab and classroom space, a fish culturing station, a boat launch, and a fleet of canoes and kayaks.

  • North America
  • 6455 Co Rd 36
  • United States
  • Honeoye
  • NY
  • 14471
  • 42
  • 77
  • maura.sullivan@flcc.edu
  • https://www.flcc.edu/muller/
  • 2000
  • Maura Sullivan
  • maura.sullivan@flcc.edu
  • Muller Field Station Director
  • 3325 Marvin Sands Drive
  • 5857851248
  • Maura Sullivan
  • maura.sullivan@flcc.edu
  • Maura Sullivan
  • maura.sullivan@flcc.edu
  • 1-100
  • No
  • Yes
  • 3-5
  • 3-5
  • 21-50
  • 1-25
  • On Grid
  • 21-40 minutes
  • K-12
  • Terrestrial
  • Temperate Forest
  • 101-300 meters
  • 101-300 meters
  • C (temperate)
  • Rural
  • Yes
  • 50
  • 50
Year Founded
2000
Year Joined OBFS
Size of Field Station (hectares)
1-100
FSML Web Address
https://www.flcc.edu/muller/

Private nonprofit organization?
No
Universities affiliated / Parent Organization
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
No
MSI/HBCU users
No
Community College users
Member of the Virtual Field
No

Visiting a FS/ML

Open to the Public
No
Year round staff
3-5
Seasonal staff
3-5
Overnight housing facilities/# of beds
21-50
Distance to emergency services
21-40 minutes
Library
Yes
Hiking trails
Internship employment
Yes

Environmental Information

Biomes
Temperate Forest
Minimum Elevation
101-300 meters
Maximum Elevation
101-300 meters
Köppen climate classification
C (temperate)
Freshwater habitats
Yes
Urban or rural
Agricultural fields
No

Research

REU host station
No
Dry lab space
Yes
Wet Lab space
Research vessels available
No
GIS capacity on site
Long term data sets
No
On site herbarium or voucher species
Formal Data Management Plan
Mesocosms, plots, stream diversions, or other sets ups for outdoor manipulative experiments
No
Date Joined OBFS
September 18, 2025