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Itasca Biological Station and Laboratories is a University of Minnesota field station dedicated to research and teaching on how ecosystems work, with an eye to cultivating an appreciation of their value and preservation for future generations. Here you will find a collection of news, features and opportunities at and about Itasca.

Big River Continuum Gets a Boost

Itasca-based artist exchange receives grant to expand reach in local communities. 

Big River Continuum -- a collaboration between Itasca Biological Station and Laboratories (IBSL) and A Studio in the Woods -- recently received a grant through the University of Minnesota Extension’s Regional Sustainable Development Partnerships (RSDP) program that aims to support sustainability work across the state. The grant will support engagement related to the program in communities near the station. 

Big River Continuum

A field station and and artist residency at opposite ends of the Mississippi River launch a scientist-artist exchange to explore our connection to — and impact on — the iconic waterway.

Ships on Mississippi River

Get to Know Itasca's Lindsey Blake

Get to know Itasca Biological Station and Laboratories' Senior Lab Technician Lindsey Blake! If you visit, you may see her around the Station - be sure to say hello.
Lindsey Blake
When did you start working at Itasca? I started working at the Itasca Station in Spring of 2017 as the Senior Lab Technician.  

Itasca Director's Report - Spring 2019

Spring is springing - the dining bell is ringing. This is a special time of year in the north woods, concluding what many call ‘mud season’ but what I call the ‘spring frolic.’ This is when sandhill cranes headed to greener fields fly over trumpeter swans settling in for summer. Barred owls’ hoots are throaty and yearning.

Call for Proposals for Itasca Seed-to-Root Grants

Itasca Biological Station and Laboratories recently launched a call for proposals for seed grants for future research projects at the field station. These seed grants aim to spark new scientific inquiry and research at the field station and facilitate preliminary, higher risk efforts focused in up-and-coming creative spaces (e.g., techniques, emerging theory). Field stations, however, focus on places with particular qualities amenable to sustaining longer-term research. Itasca Station has hosted place-based field biology since 1909, and is uniquely suited for teaching and engagement.