General Facilities

  • Office/classroom building with meeting rooms, teaching lab, and computer lab
  • Research Lab constructed in 2004
  • Service building – machine & wood shop
  • Natural areas marked with a permanent grid – Accurately GPS-located in 2005
  • Boardwalk to the center of the Cedarburg Bog – Reconstruction completed in 2009
  • 14 aquatic mesocosms (200 gallon tanks)
  • Several small boats, canoes, and trailers
  • Global Positioning System equipment
  • Extensive map and aerial photo collection
  • Geographic Information System (GIS) for the Field Station area

Housing

  • The Farm House for researcher & student housing – The kitchen was remodeled and modernized in 2021
  • The Researcher House for longer stays by individuals and groups

Hydrology, Meteorology & Phenology

  • Extensive array of environmental sensors recorded by a digital data logger
  • Phenological observation garden & native plant observations maintained
  • Lysimeter pit in the old-growth forest
  • Transect of piezometers from upland to Bog – new piezometers added in 2013

Animal Ecology & Behavior

  • Sound room facility for studies of frog communication and vocalizations
  • Large outdoor experimental aviary
  • Live traps & animal holding facilities
  • Extensive arrays of bird nest boxes
  • Flying squirrel nest boxes
  • Insect collection, small mammal & bird study skins

Plant Ecology

  • Herbarium & Plant lists
  • Plant identification lab
  • Vegetation sampling & surveying equipment
  • Fenced deer exclusion plots in various plant communities and habitats

Experimental Garden

  • 9 fenced research gardens
  • 1 acre Experimental Garden with water & electricity
  • A 30’ x 60’ screen house for studies of pollination biology
  • A screen house for studies of plant-insect interactions
  • Greenhouse & garden building
  • High capacity irrigation well
  • Farm & cultivating machinery

UWM Land Acknowledgement: We acknowledge in Milwaukee that we are on traditional Potawatomi, Ho-Chunk and Menominee homeland along the southwest shores of Michigami, North America’s largest system of freshwater lakes, where the Milwaukee, Menominee and Kinnickinnic rivers meet and the people of Wisconsin’s sovereign Anishinaabe, Ho-Chunk, Menominee, Oneida and Mohican nations remain present.   |   To learn more, visit the Electa Quinney Institute website.