Research

Cedar Point offers researchers many services that allow them to focus more time on their research. Meals are served three times a day, seven days a week. The station has internet service, a library, fax machine and daily mail service.

Lubber Laboratory provides facilities for short and long-term projects, offering both wet and dry labs. There is a fume hood, water purification system, and ultra cold freezers. The Station also has several boats for research, a Boston Whaler, and several john boats and canoes. There are 12 mesocosms (large tanks for aquatic experiments), and a workshop if you need to construct apparatuses for your research.

Housing for Graduate students conducting research at Cedar Point is in a four bedroom cabin with a one bathroom. The cabin has heat, and air conditioning. Our main kitchen is open and serving meals from mid-May through mid-August. At other times we have a 'winter kitchen' available for researchers to do their own cooking. Linens and housekeeping are not provided with the cabin.

Arapaho Prairie, two square miles of Nebraska Sandhills prairie, is also available for research. Arapaho Prairie was purchased in 1976 by the Nature Conservancy and is managed by Cedar Point. A prep house and an automated weather station are located on the Prairie and several long-term and short-term projects are in progress there. Interested researchers are encouraged to submit proposals for research at Arapaho.

Students interested in doing research at Cedar Point must submit a research plan, proposal, obtain all permits and the permission of the Director. Extramural funding proposals should list Cedar Point as the site of research. To date, over four hundred publications have resulted from research performed at Cedar Point.