The Peabody Museum of Natural History, located adjacent to the EEB department, the Peabody Museum is one of the premier university museums in the country. The museum houses extensive collections in biology, paleontology, geology, and anthropology. A number of EEB faculty (Buss, Donoghue, Rice, Skelly) are also curators in the museum and other faculty and graduate students make regular use of the collections.

In addition to the research collections, the Peabody is also a public museum with extensive exhibits, including a number of type specimens of dinosaurs and excellent representations of central and south American anthropology. Admission to the public exhibits is free to Yale faculty and students.

The Institute for Biospheric Study, closely allied with EEB, supports research in ecosystem and conservation biology. In addition to the MSCGL (discussed above), YIBS contains a number of Research Centers that provide training and equipment for environmental research, including the Center for Earth Observation and the Earth Systems Center for Stable Isotopic Studies.

The YIBS Center for Field Ecology (CFE) supports field based research and teaching in the environmental sciences. Comprised of faculty from departments and schools across the University, its goal is to help make Yale a world leader in ecology by supporting faculty development, student research, and infrastructure projects to enhance field based research and teaching. To do so it awards grants to graduate students for pilot projects leading towards a PhD and to undergraduates for summer internships on field ecology projects with Yale faculty. It has inventoried field studies being done at Yale and field sites available to Yale faculty and students; the results are now available on this web site. Its future goals include substantially upgraded field sites, additional graduate and undergraduate support, and undergraduate curricular offerings that enable Yale students to engage seriously with field ecology.

Yale University Natural Lands Yale University holds an extensive amount of land, including two large forests and a natural perserve in and around Guilford, Connnecticut, that contain most ecosystems of the Northeastern United States. These natural lands are open to professors and students for short-term and long term research. The following is a database that contains information about each natural holding, including history, past and present ecological research, species lists, contact information, and facilities information. For information concerning each site, including directions, detailed maps, that is not listed on the website, as well as information on how to apply for research permissions, contact the Yale faculty or staff member listed for each land holding.

The Molecular Systematics & Conservation Genetics Lab gives students, postdocs, and faculty access to state of the art equipment for the study of molecular evolution and ecology. The MSCGL also offers structured training in molecular biology techniques that are applicable to population and conservation biology. The lab also provides some financial support for undergraduate projects and graduate student rotations. The lab is run by Adalgisa Caccone and administered by YIBS.

DNA Analysis Facility on Science Hill
A small through put Core Facility conveniently located on Science Hill, within the Molecular Systematics & Conservation Genetics Lab, serving the needs of the Yale Community, Researchers in the Northeast, and around the world. It is our mission to offer high quality DNA sequencing services that are affordably priced to allow you to further your research. We charge one standard price and do not require Yale affiliation or volume submissions for “discounted pricing”. We also offer Fragment Analysis services for microsatellites, AFLP's and SNplex.

Marsh Botanic Garden The mission of Marsh Botanic Garden is divided between three separate but equally important areas: 1) Support of Yale University research and instruction for MCDB, EEB and other departments and schools. 2) Outreach to the Yale University community as well as to New Haven and the region. 3) Provide green space for Yale University's development of the Science Hill area of its campus.

NESCent National Evolutionary Synthesis Center

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