{"id":1009,"date":"2016-08-11T08:57:27","date_gmt":"2016-08-11T13:57:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/field-station\/?page_id=1009"},"modified":"2025-07-24T15:07:49","modified_gmt":"2025-07-24T20:07:49","slug":"facilities-general","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/field-station\/visit-the-field-station\/facilities-general\/","title":{"rendered":"Facilities: General"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-buildings-and-equipment\">Buildings and Equipment<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The Saukville Field Station has an office\/classroom building with meeting rooms, teaching lab, and computer lab, plus a research lab building with an herbarium containing most of the plants found in the area. <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>A well-equipped shop is located in the service building.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The Station maintains a complete weather station and meteorological data and equipment are available. <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The weather station includes a digital data logger and sensors which record rainfall, air and soil temperatures, relative humidity, wind speed and direction, barometric pressure, and solar radiation. <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The entire Saukville Field Station area is marked with a permanent and easily located grid system which was accurately GPS-located in 2005. <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Equipment for trapping and marking animals and an animal room and animal holding facilities are available. <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>A small greenhouse and gardens are maintained for experimental work, and farm and cultivating machinery are available. <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>We maintain a set of 14 aquatic mesocosms (buried 200 gallon cattle tanks) for controlled experimental research on aquatic plants and animals. <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>For soil and hydrologic studies, there is a permanent lysimeter pit in the beech-maple woods, and a system of peizometers running from the upland into the bog. <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>There are several fenced deer exclusion plots in various plant communities and habitats.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The Station maintains a boardwalk to the center of the Cedarburg Bog.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>All of these facilities lie within the natural area, and security is ensured by a chain link fence and the presence of Station staff.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"aligncenter uwm-c-img--center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"602\" src=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/field-station\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/380\/2022\/11\/FSBuildings-Done-1024x602.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-13330\" srcset=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/field-station\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/380\/2022\/11\/FSBuildings-Done-1024x602.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/uwm.edu\/field-station\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/380\/2022\/11\/FSBuildings-Done-300x176.jpg 300w, https:\/\/uwm.edu\/field-station\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/380\/2022\/11\/FSBuildings-Done-768x451.jpg 768w, https:\/\/uwm.edu\/field-station\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/380\/2022\/11\/FSBuildings-Done-1536x903.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/uwm.edu\/field-station\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/380\/2022\/11\/FSBuildings-Done-2048x1203.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-housing\">Housing<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The Saukville Field Station has a farmhouse that can accommodate up to 15 people. 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