{"id":31174,"date":"2019-02-08T11:12:32","date_gmt":"2019-02-08T15:12:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fondriest.com\/news\/?p=31174"},"modified":"2025-02-03T16:53:58","modified_gmt":"2025-02-03T20:53:58","slug":"the-ozark-research-field-station-in-focus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fondriest.com\/news\/the-ozark-research-field-station-in-focus.htm","title":{"rendered":"The Ozark Research Field Station in Focus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Biological field stations exist all across the country, and now there is a brand new station in the Ozarks. The<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mst.edu\/\"> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Missouri University of Science and Technology<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8216;s<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/ozarkfieldstation.blogspot.com\/\"> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ozark Research Field Station<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is now open, and director<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/people.mst.edu\/faculty\/verbler\/index.html\"> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Dr. Robin Verble<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> took the time to speak to <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">EM<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> about the new station.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cWe are brand new,\u201d states Dr. Verble, who is the founding director of the station. \u201cThe University acquired the property officially at the beginning of January 2017. They spent most of last year doing the search for a director, and they found me. I got there in August, and we have been moving forward at a very rapid clip ever since.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Ozark Research Field Station (ORFS) is a nine-acre site nestled inside 300 acres of state-owned land in the Bohigian Conservation area. That 300 acres is surrounded by an additional 6,000 acres of the Mark Twain National Forest.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cIt&#8217;s an old homestead,\u201d Dr. Verble describes. \u201cIt was originally constructed in 1868. We have a historic log cabin that&#8217;s been added onto over the years, and it&#8217;s on the site right now, so there&#8217;s that interesting historic component. We have a lot of plans for construction of labs, and classrooms and other facilities that are all hopefully gearing up this summer.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Water-dependent research is already in progress at the nine-acre station\u2014which is approximately five acres of water.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cWe have a spring-fed pond in the back of the station,\u201d adds Dr. Verble. \u201cAnd then we have two ponds that have been impounded to make a series of three large ponds in the back.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_31177\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-31177\" class=\"size-large wp-image-31177\" src=\"https:\/\/www.fondriest.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Ozark_research_A-view-near-the-station-600x900.jpg\" alt=\"ozark research\" width=\"600\" height=\"900\" srcset=\"https:\/\/news.fondriest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Ozark_research_A-view-near-the-station-600x900.jpg 600w, https:\/\/news.fondriest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Ozark_research_A-view-near-the-station-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/news.fondriest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Ozark_research_A-view-near-the-station-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/news.fondriest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Ozark_research_A-view-near-the-station-1024x1536.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/news.fondriest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Ozark_research_A-view-near-the-station-1365x2048.jpg 1365w, https:\/\/news.fondriest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Ozark_research_A-view-near-the-station-940x1410.jpg 940w, https:\/\/news.fondriest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Ozark_research_A-view-near-the-station-scaled.jpg 1707w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-31177\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span style=\"color: #808080;\">A view near the field station. (Missouri S&amp;T, via Dr. Robin Verble)<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Local Missouri S&amp;T researchers within Dr. Verble&#8217;s department have been conducting aquatic sampling to get an idea of what&#8217;s present in the vicinity, and Dr. Verble has been conducting the terrestrial component herself, catching insects.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cDr. Dev Niyogi is doing some of the aquatic sampling,\u201d remarks Dr. Verble. \u201cHe&#8217;s our primary researcher there, other than myself at this point. We have interest from some geological engineers in installing water test wells for teaching students about water testing and water quality. That&#8217;s still in the planning stage.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The team has been assembling an iNaturalist page that can combine some of these efforts.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cWe have high hopes if we can get the funding together, of restoring the more natural flow of the whole system,\u201d explains Dr. Verble. \u201cThe spring channel would historically have meandered out to Mill Creek through a fen ecosystem, which is about a quarter of a mile away. We&#8217;d really love to do some restoration, and get the historic channel rebuilt, replant native plants, and start building everything back as it should be.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #808080;\">Partnering for research, education, and more<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The station is on a long term lease with the Missouri Department of Conservation, which has been an essential partner throughout the process.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThey have been crucial in getting a lot of the permitting, and leases established so that we have good access,\u201d details Dr. Verble. \u201cThe Forest Service has also been really excited and helped out where they can. We&#8217;ve got the Audubon Society interested in coming out, and Master Naturalists in the area have been excited about coming out for field trips.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In fact, Dr. Verble and the team see exciting potential for ecotourism throughout the watershed.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cEcotourism won&#8217;t be directly associated with the Field Station, but promoted by it,\u201d remarks Dr. Verble. \u201cMill Creek, which runs along the back, is a Blue Ribbon trout stream, so it stays nice and cool. It&#8217;s got some really great pools and really nice flow. There&#8217;s a really neat little fishing bed and breakfast just down the road from us, the <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Out Cast Inn<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, and I know they&#8217;re excited about us promoting events and getting people there. That could really stimulate local ecotourism because it&#8217;s a well-known site in Missouri for fishing and hiking, it just needs a push.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_31178\" style=\"width: 603px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-31178\" class=\"size-large wp-image-31178\" src=\"https:\/\/www.fondriest.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Ozark_research_Collecting-specimens-with-the-public-593x1024.jpg\" alt=\"ozark research\" width=\"593\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/news.fondriest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Ozark_research_Collecting-specimens-with-the-public-593x1024.jpg 593w, https:\/\/news.fondriest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Ozark_research_Collecting-specimens-with-the-public-174x300.jpg 174w, https:\/\/news.fondriest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Ozark_research_Collecting-specimens-with-the-public.jpg 750w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 593px) 100vw, 593px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-31178\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span style=\"color: #808080;\">Collecting specimens with the public. (Missouri S&amp;T, via Dr. Robin Verble)<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Dr. Verble&#8217;s main goals for the station are education, research, and community outreach.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cWe&#8217;re working on getting external researchers excited about using the site,\u201d comments Dr. Verble. \u201cWe&#8217;re already teaching three field classes this summer at the site. Lately, we&#8217;ve been doing a lot of community engagement events, such as community fishing days, and a birding day. We&#8217;ve been working to draw in the local folks, and get them fully invested.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Dr. Verble sees the field station playing a critical role connecting the university and people in the community\u2014groups who might not be able to see how they can benefit each other without that connection.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cWe&#8217;re a science and technology university with a really heavy engineering focus, so often the local public sees us as an ivory tower,\u201d explains Dr. Verble. \u201cAnd science can kind of feel scary. But especially around here, when you relate it back to the natural resources, and hands-on applications, it seems to connect a lot better.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This is why an informal, outdoors approach is so valuable.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cI want this to feel very homey, like the University front porch,\u201d states Dr. Verble. \u201cSomewhere they can come, chat with us, get to know us. Then they can get out, and do that hands-on nature that usually gets them really excited. We had a Girl Scout group come through, that we had wading in the creek, and catching crayfish. I think it was a really successful engagement.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Dr. Verble also values an interdisciplinary approach, in part because of her experiences working at the Texas Tech Junction Field Station.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cWe&#8217;d have art students, poetry students, science students, all out there at once,\u201d Dr. Verble recalls. \u201cIt was so neat to see how what we were doing influenced what the poets were writing about, and vice versa. So I&#8217;m a big proponent of putting as much non-science out there to go with the science as possible. In February we have a Professor who teaches architectural technology visiting with his class to do architectural drawings of our historic cabin.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_31179\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-31179\" class=\"size-large wp-image-31179\" src=\"https:\/\/www.fondriest.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Ozark_research_On-the-grounds-600x400.jpg\" alt=\"ozark research\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/news.fondriest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Ozark_research_On-the-grounds-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/news.fondriest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Ozark_research_On-the-grounds-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/news.fondriest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Ozark_research_On-the-grounds-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/news.fondriest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Ozark_research_On-the-grounds-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/news.fondriest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Ozark_research_On-the-grounds-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/news.fondriest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Ozark_research_On-the-grounds-940x627.jpg 940w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-31179\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span style=\"color: #808080;\">On the grounds. (Missouri S&amp;T, via Dr. Robin Verble)<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Dr. Verble envisions local residents, students, and researchers coming to the station to document plants, photograph the local lake birds, plant native plants, and conduct natural resources work removing brush. Thus far the station&#8217;s team has not had a citizen science plants group yet, but Dr. Verble is hopeful.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThe best way to get people informed about science is getting them out to do it,\u201d affirms Dr. Verble. \u201cShowing them that it&#8217;s not just sitting in classrooms and learning math and theories. Obviously, that&#8217;s a component, but I think we&#8217;ve done a poor job as a society, I think, showing people what careers in science are like. Science is a really accessible thing that a lot of kids love, they love hiking, they love being outside. And they miss the idea that these things could actually lead to a career path.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Dr. Verble and the team at the Ozark Research Field Station intend to change that in their area, partly via experiential learning, and partly by simply being there and open for science, so to speak.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cWe can&#8217;t train a biologist who never went out and picked up a plant, or identified a plant, or caught an animal and learned all the feeling, the smells, the sensory part of that,\u201d states Dr. Verble. \u201cWe&#8217;re doing a poor job if we don&#8217;t do that. On a local, community level, we&#8217;re open, we&#8217;re there, we&#8217;re excited. We really want the community to engage as much as they can. On our <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ozarkresearch\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Facebook posts<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> I have tried to emphasize that, &#8216;Anybody who has a question, anybody who wants to come meet with me. I&#8217;m here.&#8217;\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There\u2019s a new field station in the Ozarks, and it is open for educational, research, and citizen science opportunities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":31176,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,59,5,8,510],"tags":[1442,1440,1439,60,1441,1443,1437,109,1438],"class_list":["post-31174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-earth-atmosphere","category-estuaries-wetlands","category-featured-articles","category-newsfeed","category-water-quality","tag-aquatic-sampling","tag-bohigian-conservation-area","tag-dr-robin-verble","tag-featured","tag-mark-twain-national-forest","tag-missouri-department-of-conservation","tag-missouri-university-of-science-and-technology","tag-news-ticker","tag-ozark-research-field-station"],"remote_post_permalink":false,"remote_post_featured_image":false,"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>The Ozark Research Field Station in Focus<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"There\u2019s a new field station in the Ozarks, and it is open for educational, research, and citizen science opportunities.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.fondriest.com\/news\/the-ozark-research-field-station-in-focus.htm\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The Ozark Research Field Station in Focus\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"There\u2019s a new field station in the Ozarks, and it is open for educational, research, and citizen science opportunities.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.fondriest.com\/news\/the-ozark-research-field-station-in-focus.htm\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Environmental Monitor\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2019-02-08T15:12:32+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2025-02-03T20:53:58+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.fondriest.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Ozark_research_plenty-of-water-at-the-field-station-for-research-600x450.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"600\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"450\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Karla Lant\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Karla Lant\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"7 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.fondriest.com\\\/news\\\/the-ozark-research-field-station-in-focus.htm#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.fondriest.com\\\/news\\\/the-ozark-research-field-station-in-focus.htm\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Karla Lant\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.fondriest.com\\\/news\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/51170f7bfa3a05b94cea6f517ce4e79b\"},\"headline\":\"The Ozark Research Field Station in Focus\",\"datePublished\":\"2019-02-08T15:12:32+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2025-02-03T20:53:58+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.fondriest.com\\\/news\\\/the-ozark-research-field-station-in-focus.htm\"},\"wordCount\":1348,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.fondriest.com\\\/news\\\/the-ozark-research-field-station-in-focus.htm#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/news.fondriest.com\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2019\\\/02\\\/Ozark_research_plenty-of-water-at-the-field-station-for-research-scaled.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"aquatic sampling\",\"Bohigian Conservation Area\",\"Dr. Robin Verble\",\"featured\",\"Mark Twain National Forest\",\"Missouri Department of Conservation\",\"Missouri University of Science and Technology\",\"news ticker\",\"Ozark Research Field Station\"],\"articleSection\":[\"Earth &amp; 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