About Field Stations Program
 Matt Rahn |
Hello and welcome to the San Diego State University Field Stations Program (FSP). Whether you are a new or return visitor, we hope that our website gives you a glimpse at our programs. Since 1962 with the first field station in the network, the Santa Margarita Ecological Reserve, SDSU has managed off-campus natural areas as living laboratories and outdoor classrooms. Like a lab-bench or a campus classroom, field stations are natural areas supporting the mission of San Diego State University: to provide well-balanced, high quality education for undergraduate and graduate students and to contribute to knowledge and the solution of problems through excellence and distinction in teaching, research, and service. To learn more general information about Field Stations Program, please refer to the following pages: We are always looking for faculty, researchers, students, and community members to collaborate with us and become FSP users so that we can make lasting contributions to understanding and sustaining natural systems. Many researchers and educators working on field station lands or in collaboration with field station programs research have made ground-breaking innovative discoveries that are built upon, with subsequent studies, education programs or applied management plans. As a network of four field stations we try to facilitate the highest quality environments for innovative discoveries. Researchers working in global climate change, watershed studies and innovative education programs have developed new understandings that are actively applied to our outreach and management of natural resource programs. Additionally, we were one of the nation's first field-based programs to invest in wide-area wireless telecommunications and sensor networks allowing for new ways to discover and "see" the natural world. All of this brings information to you, our users, collaborators, and friends. Again, welcome to the Field Stations Program website! We hope this website provides you with information on use and access to our field stations, grant program information and a wealth of data regarding past users and the research community. If you have any questions - or would just like to contact us - please feel free to call us at 619-594-0580 or email . Sincerely, |
