Sevilleta Field Station – University of New Mexico

The Sevilleta Field Station is located in central New Mexico at the Sevilleta National Wildlife Refuge, a 230,000 acre refuge located approximately 80 km south of the  University of New Mexico’s (UNM) main campus in Albuquerque.  The field station was initially established in 1989 to support the research efforts of  Sevilleta Long-Term Ecological Research (SevLTER) program. The mission of the field station is “to promote understanding and preservation of the natural environment,” and over the past two decades its activities have expanded well beyond the SevLTER, enabling and supporting a wide variety of research, academic courses, training workshops, conferences, retreat, and class field trips. Field station facilities are owned and managed by UNM, while research and teaching efforts are carried out in cooperation with the US Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS), which manages the Sevilleta National Wildlife Refuge.