Weber State University aims to build a research station in Yellowstone National Park by fall 2026. The station will provide hands-on research opportunities for students from all disciplines, studying the park's unique ecosystem, including bison, bears, geysers, and canyons. Plans include classrooms, labs, dormitories, and faculty housing.
Weber State University hopes to build out the research labs and classrooms by fall 2026 — to be used by students from all disciplines to study the park’s unique ecosystem of bison, bears, geysers and canyons.“They’ll be able to do hands-on research, collect long-term data on ecological issues,” said Andrea Easter-Pilcher, dean of Weber’sEaster-Pilcher imagines students from all disciplines spending time at the research spot and interacting with nature.
It’s not clear yet exactly what the cost would be to build, but the dean said the College of Science has raised “a significant amount” in a short time. It held a fundraiser in Yellowstone in July, too, where donors could go fly fishing with the chair of the physics department and watching watch a professor and student band birds they caught to track.
“That will bring a lot of cachet to Weber State,” Easter-Pilcher added, and could enhance both recruitment and retention for faculty and students., it is the third largest of the eight public colleges in the state. But it is one of only two that doesn’t have an off-campus station for hands-on, in-the-field research .a station at Lytle Preserve in Utah’s southwest corner.
The school looked for places within four hours of driving distance from Ogden to accommodate the shorter trips. The dean also wanted a place that could be accessible all year. That’s a challenge in Yellowstone, she acknowledged, which tends to have severe winters. The U.’s field station in nearby Centennial Valley, for instance, is only accessible four months of the year.
Not only was he able to confirm the owls’ courtship, but he also captured the first-ever recording of a boreal owl singing in Utah. Johnson now is an advocate for other students doing field research and is pushing for Weber to build the Yellowstone field station so others have the same opportunities.
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