What is Field Biology?
Field Biology can take many forms, but the goal always is to understand how living organisms function in their natural environments. The tools for conducting field research can be as simple as a pencil and a notebook, or as complicated as sequencing and analyzing DNA; modern field biology often integrates data collected outdoors in an organism’s environment with molecular lab work and computer-based modeling. On any given day, scientific research in Field Biology can be exciting, exhausting, thrilling, boring, pleasant, tedious, a walk in the park, a scramble up a mountain, a slog through a stream. For us in the CEFB it is always rewarding.
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The Center of Excellence for Field Biology at Austin Peay State University has partnered with the Clarksville Sustainability Board to offer a new program to help residents add more native plants and pollinators to local yards.
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This year's annual meeting of the Tennessee Herpetological Society will be at Austin Peay State University, and the event is open to the public to see research presentations from across the state about the reptiles and amphibians of Tennessee and Kentucky.
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The night - July 18 - had started slowly, but as the mugginess of the day's summer rains lifted, the bats started their forage above Fort Campbell's creeks and graveled roads. And the six mist nets that Dr. Catherine Haase's team erected over those pathways had captured three red bats just seconds apart.
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