By Kristina Jackson | University Communication and Marketing
On the shores of Lake Ogallala, the University of Nebraska–Lincoln’s Cedar Point Biological Station offers a getaway to explore the natural world and learn about everything from birds to books to biodiversity.
Every summer, Cedar Point hosts people from across disciplines, like scholars who visit to research the land and the wildlife, and youth who attend STEM camps.
John DeLong, professor in the School of Biological Sciences and director of Cedar Point, said the station gives people a chance to retreat to a place where they can get out of the classroom and into the real world.
“All the stuff we do at the university feels more relevant when you do it in a place-based context, where you’re back close to the earth,” DeLong said.
Here are some of the events Cedar Point is hosting this summer:
Classes
A parasitology class taught by Scott Gardner, professor in the School of Biological Sciences, will visit the station for a course beginning in late July. The class has been held in some form at Cedar Point for 50 years.
“It’s very much a teaching and research discovery class, where they discover new parasites and they learn how to find them and identify them and understand their biology,” DeLong said.
Cedar Point will also host Literature and the Environment beginning in late May. The material includes books about the Great Plains and by authors from the region.
A number of other courses in fields like herpetology, epidemiology and ecology will also be held at the station over the summer.
“The topics are different but the commonality is you’re outside trying to be in the real world away from your screens, in nature, and you can think about nature in different ways,” DeLong said. “You can process people’s stories, but you can also process samples.”
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