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Our mission
Our mission is to provide a location and facilities for faculty, students, and visiting scientists to conduct research and educational programs that increase public understanding of southwest Missouri ecosystems.
Field Station facilities
The Bull Shoals Field Station (BSFS) consists of two properties on either side of
Bull Shoals Lake, Drury House in Kirbyville and the Ozarks Education Center (OEC)
in Cedarcreek. Drury House consists of a residential structure, an outdoor shelter,
a wet lab and a classroom, with access to 5600 acres of public lands at the Drury-Mincy
Conservation Area. The OEC is a 4,000 square foot facility that includes a great room
for meetings and classes, a kitchen, and bunkroom, cabin and bathhouse facilities
for up to 20 individuals. This building is adjacent to MSU's 1200-acre Chase land.
Both properties are available to study animal, plant, fungal, protist and bacterial
life forms in a wide variety of habitats from glades, grasslands and forests to streams,
ponds and the lake. BSFS staff also maintain a weather station in the Drury-Mincy
Conservation Area that measures and records climatological data including air and
soil temperatures, wind direction and speed, fuel temperature and moisture, precipitation,
and calculates evapotranspiration. The current weather station has been in operation
since 2002. We upgraded the probes and data logger in 2014. A canopy camera or PhenoCam
in the same area records phenological events such as forest canopy development and
senescence.
Our clientele consists of university classes from Missouri State and classes from other universities in Missouri, Arkansas and Kansas. We offer undergraduate and graduate courses in the summer and during intersession periods between semesters. We've also had researchers from a variety of institutions and often host society and agency meetings.
Contact us
Contact BSFS staff at BSFS@Live.MissouriState.edu to schedule individual research, classes, small conferences, retreats and educational events.