OBFS Board Meeting
The OBFS Board of Directors meets via Zoom every eight weeks through the year. All OBFS members are welcome to attend these meetings! Contact Beth Norman (secretary@obfs.org) with any questions. Join the meeting: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/86327357115?pwd=rhRWgzxQ2WbUMpVH01IHiq89ZUNzV8.1
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Tropical Dendrology Intensive Field Course
This coming October, Cloudbridge will be hosting a tropical dendrology field course with Nelson Zamora for the second time! We will be learning about identification and surveying of trees in the tropical Cloud Forest of the Talamanca mountains, at Cloudbridge Nature Reserve. Please contact research@cloudbridge.org for more information.
Read MoreToolik Field Station 2025 All Scientists Meeting: Celebrating 50 Years of Toolik Research
Register now for the 2025 Toolik Field Station All Scientists Meeting Toolik Field Station welcomes all to join them at the 2025 Toolik All Scientists Meeting, celebrating 50 years of Toolik research. The meeting will take place January 16-18, 2025 in Santa Barbara, CA. Register on our website by Dec. 6. The All Scientists Meeting…
Read MoreSpecial OBFS Board Meeting
The OBFS Board meets every 8 weeks but we are having a special meeting on December 5 (1 PM ET) to finish the meeting started during our annual conference. All OBFS members are welcome to attend. Please contact Beth Norman (secretary@obfs.org) for more information.
Read MoreOBFS Partners with the Climate Toolkit
The Phipps Conservatory’s Climate Toolkit is partnering with the Organization of Biological Field Stations to expand its reach beyond zoos and aquaria, museums and science centers, gardens and arboreta. Through this partnership they hope to recruit more field stations to focus on the Toolkit’s 33 goals for addressing climate change. Phipps Conservatory has sent out a…
Read More2024 Annual Meeting November 11-15, 2024
The 2024 annual meeting will be held November 11-15 in South Carolina by the Baruch Institutes of Hobcaw Barony (co-hosted by Clemson Baruch Institute of Coastal Ecology and Forest Science and University of South Carolina Belle W. Baruch Institute for Marine and Coastal Sciences as well as our illustrious OBFS Vice President, Skip Van Bloem). The dates selected are later than usual to avoid hurricanes…
Read MoreOBFS August 2024 Newsletter
Read the August 2024 OBFS Newsletter here!
Read More2024 OBFS Historian Report
This has been a landmark year for OBFS Historical Resources as, on 2/8/2024, the OBFS Board voted to form an official Historic Resource Committee to survey historical resources and centralize, digitize and make available to the public the background papers and photos of the Organization of Biological Field Stations. The Historic Resource Committee was formed…
Read MoreNational Field Station Conservation Survey
Private conservation lands are an important part of protecting ecosystems and preventing habitat loss throughout the country. Field stations, in particular, contribute to conservation and provide opportunities for research, education, and training for our future environmental scientists and leaders. Auburn University College of Forestry, Wildlife and Environment (CFWE) together with The Jones Center at Ichauway…
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