University of Notre Dame Environmental Research Center
Established | 1936 |
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Location | United States |
Website | https://underc.nd.edu/ |
University of Notre Dame Environmental Research Center (UNDERC) has two locations in North America serving as natural laboratories for scientists studying ecology and environmental biology. These locations serve as "natural" laboratories for the study of environmental systems that have experienced little or no degradation from humans and as a baseline for comparison with human disturbed systems.
UNDERC-EAST
[edit]UNDERC-East [1] encompasses 7,500 acres (30 km2) (land = 6,150 acres (24.9 km2) and lakes/bogs/streams = 1,350 acres (5.5 km2)) lying at 46°13′N 89°32′W / 46.217°N 89.533°W along the state line of Wisconsin (Vilas County) and Michigan (Gogebic County). UNDERC-East is the National Ecological Observatory Network[2] (NEON) site for increasing the understanding of how forest management impacts ecological processes in the Great Lakes Region (Domain #5).[3]
UNDERC-WEST
[edit]UNDERC-West [4] lies at 47°29′N 114°16′W / 47.483°N 114.267°W and is located in the Mission Valley of Montana (Lake County). UNDERC-West encompasses more than 1,000,000 acres (4,000 km2) administered by the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes [5] with whom the University of Notre Dame partners in the UNDERC-West project.
Notable Researchers
[edit]- Arthur Hasler
- Edward Birge
- Chancey Juday
- David Lodge
- James Elser
- James Kitchell
- Stephen Carpenter
- Kathryn L. Cottingham
References
[edit]- ^ UNDERC-East
- ^ "Home". neoninc.org.
- ^ "Great Lakes Domain | NEON". www.neoninc.org. Archived from the original on 2009-01-26.
- ^ UNDERC-West
- ^ Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes
External links
[edit]- University of Notre Dame buildings and structures
- Nature reserves in Michigan
- Research institutes in the United States
- Biological research institutes in the United States
- Ecological experiments
- Ecology organizations
- Protected areas of Gogebic County, Michigan
- Protected areas of Vilas County, Wisconsin
- Geography of Lake County, Montana
- University of Notre Dame