University of Notre Dame Environmental Research Center


University of Notre Dame Environmental Research Center has two locations in North America serving as natural laboratories for scientists studying ecology and environmental biology. These locations offer the opportunity to study environmental systems that have experienced little or no degradation from humans and as a baseline for comparison with human disturbed systems.

UNDERC-East

UNDERC-East encompasses lying at along the state line of Wisconsin and Michigan. It includes a land area of 6150 acres and 30 lakes and bogs.
UNDERC-East hosts a variety of habitats for research including:
UNDERC-East also serves as the National Ecological Observatory Network site for increasing the understanding of how forest management impacts ecological processes in the Great Lakes Region.

UNDERC-West

UNDERC-West was founded in 2006 and lies at and is located in the Mission Valley of Montana. UNDERC-West encompasses more than administered by the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes with whom the University of Notre Dame partners in the UNDERC-West project. The research program at UNDERC-West has closed.

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