Oak Lake Field – Education

The Oak Lake Field Station is used as an instructional site to support university classes, public school instruction and outreach educational programs.

Facilities include:

  • A modern classroom capable of hosting class sizes of 35 or fewer students
  • High-speed wireless internet
  • Digital projection
  • Chemical-resistant tabletops
  • Computer room
  • Photocopying equipment
  • Monocular compound microscopes and zoom dissecting scopes are available to support laboratory activities
  • A digital camera system is also available for projection of specimens

Our field library and internet service provide access to current literature, field guides, contemporary textbooks and older issues of selected environmental journals. The close proximity of field sites to the classroom and laboratory building enhances field and lab instruction.

Instructors Using Oak Lake:

  • Advanced Plant Ecology (Lan Xu)
  • American Nature Writing (Kathleen Danker)
  • Disturbance Ecology (Nels H. Troelstrup, Jr.)
  • Ecology of Aquatic Invertebrates (Nels H. Troelstrup, Jr.)
  • Ethnobotany (Neil Reese)
  • Freshwater Monitoring and Assessment (Nels H. Troelstrup, Jr.)
  • Large Mammal Ecology and Management (Jon Jenks)
  • Limnology (Nels H. Troelstrup, Jr.)
  • Natural Resources Techniques (Leslie Vincent and Mike Brown)
  • Principles of Ecology (Lan Xu)
  • Principles of Environmental Science and Engineering (Todd Trooien)
  • Plant Ecology (Lan Xu)

Annual Field Station Programs:

  • Annual Spring Bird Count (early May)
  • Educational Outreach Programs – Area Schools
  • Natural Resources High School Camp (one week in July)
  • Oak Lake Research Retreat (October)
  • ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø Honors College Hike and Read
  • ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø Horse Camp
  • U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Grassland Plant Identification Workshop
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Oak Lake Field Station
19862 483rd Ave.
Astoria, SD 57213
Hours
Mon - Fri: 8:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m.
Closed during all state holidays.
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