Laboratory Research Facilities
In addition to the research space and equipment available to students through their faculty supervisors, members of the graduate program have easy access to a wide array of research tools and equipment within the university. These include a recently remodeled research greenhouse, plant growth chambers, controlled temperature rooms, a molecular genetics laboratory, tissue culture facilities, an animal care facility, and fresh and salt water aquaria. Communal equipment necessary for most cell and molecular studies are readily available. The Division of Biology and Medicine also supports a well-equipped electron microscopy facility with both transmission and scanning scopes, and a number of image analysis systems are available.

Computer facilities are excellent. Students have easy access to networked workstations, terminals linked to the Brown Computer System, laser printers, and image analysis equipment.

Field Research Facilities
The 450 acre Haffenreffer Museum site, owned by the University, is located only thirty minutes from campus and provides a number of protected terrestrial and marine habitats for study. In addition, a wide range of habitats and opportunities for research exist in and near Providence, including marine, estuary, freshwater, old field, and soft and hardwood forest habitats on state, private, and Audubon Society lands, minutes from campus. Students, however, are not restricted to field work near Brown. Providence is centrally located among a number of northeastern universities and research facilities which are readily accessible. For example, the Woods Hole Marine Biological Laboratory, Northeastern University's Marine Science Center, Harvard's Arnold Arboretum and the Museum of Comparative Zoology are each within 90 minutes of campus. In recent years, members of our group have carried out field work in Maine, Colorado, Florida, England, and Central America.

Library Facilities
Brown's seventeen-floor Sciences Library for the biological and physical sciences holds approximately 7,000 current periodicals and well over 500,000 bound volumes in open stacks and provides study space for more than 300 students. Computerized literature search and interlibrary loan services are readily available.

Related Departments
The Graduate Program in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology benefits from interactions with many other graduate programs and departments on campus. Interactions among groups on campus are facilitated through joint course offerings, research ventures and seminars. Other programs at Brown of particular interest to our group include the graduate programs in Molecular Biology, Cell Biology, and Biochemistry, Physiology, Neuroscience, Geological Sciences,Applied Mathematics, and Psychology.

Research Support
The research programs of our faculty and students are supported by funding from federal agencies, foundations and Brown University. Outside sources include the National Science Foundation, the National Institutes of Health, Sea Grant, the Center for Field Research, the American Museum of Natural History, and Sigma Xi.

Support Staff

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