Facilities
Faculty and graduate students typically are housed in their home departments, where they enjoy access to departmental resources (e.g. computing facilities, classrooms, wet and dry labs). In addition, members of EECB have access to the facilities described below.
Conservation Genetics Center
The Conservation
Genetics Center at UNR was created to bring recent technological advances
in equipment designed for high-throughput genomic analysis to bear on
questions in conservation biology and evolution. The aim of the center
is to improve the ability of conservation biologists to ask questions
about spatial and temporal dynamics in a cost-effective and timely manner.
Contact Dr. Mary Peacock
for more information.
The Whittel Forest and Wildlife Area/Little Valley Field Station.
For more than 30 years, the University has owned the Whittel Forest and Wildlife Area, 20 mi. Southwest of Reno in the Sierra Nevada,
dedicated to the study of natural history. Recent funding by the USDA allows
for the construction of a teaching/research facility on the site.Contact Dr. Steve Vander Wall for more information.
The Jay Dow, Sr. Wetlands
Located
60 mi. North of Reno in the Honey Lake Valley, the Jay
Dow Wetlands was donated to the university in 1993. The research site
encompasses more than 1350 acres are 350 acres of managed wetlands, and
a new teaching/research facility suitable for housing six scientists/students.Contact Dr. Lew Oring for more information.