Since 1998, SGS researchers and staff, with the support of National Science Foundation, Colorado State University, University of Northern Colorado, and our partners at United States Department of Agriculture-Agricultural Research Service, have been working to build a modern facility that will further increase our capability for excellence in scholarship and education. The new SGS buildings at the station include a premier classroom/conference center and new comfortable housing for up to twenty people, all with a state-of-the-art cyberinfrastructure to provide easy to use and reliable computing resources and access to historical and current data and publications. The new SGS facilities are designed for running workshops and have two five bedroom houses to support visiting scientists, land managers, and students who stay at the field station. We plan in the future to build additional houses and a research laboratory for our scholarship activities. This entire station will represent the world-class activities at the site, and give the broader scientific community further capabilities to conduct research, education, and outreach.
Follow any of the links below to find out more information about the
history of the SGS Field Station Improvements.
2007 Construction Begins : Link to Pictures
2006 Shortgrass Steppe Research and Interpretation Center: Conceptual Schematic Design
2004 SGS Field Station Improvements: Project Description
2004 Summary of SGS Facility Plans: Research Space
2004 SGS Field Station Research and Education Facilities: Site Plans
2004 SGS Field Station Improvements: Budget Justification
1999 Draft Workshop Report for SGS Research and Interpretation Center
1998 Site Planning proposal (Funded October, 1998)
1997 Site Improvement
proposal (rejected by NSF, but has lots of good background information)
