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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 the Ozarks Education Center (OEC)
in Cedarcreek. (The old Drury House property is no longer part of the field station.)
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. The property is 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, Kansas, and Iowa. 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.