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Hults Environmental Learning Center

Field Studies

The Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Management occupies more than 14,000 square feet of space in the West Quadrangle Building. This modern facility has classrooms, laboratories, faculty offices, and seven research laboratories. Also included are offices for graduate assistants, a seminar room, and a microcomputer laboratory.

In addition to the basic equipment for teaching, research equipment includes high pressure liquid chromatograph, liquid fraction collector, an atomic absorption spectrophotometer, an ion chromatograph, a scanning UV-visible spectrophotometer, a total carbon analyzer, and total nitrogen analyzers. There are also research facilities for studies of indoor air quality.

Standard water and soil sampling instruments are available for field work. A hyetometer and a high volume air sampler along with other instruments for air analysis are housed in the university weather station. Bracken Library contains more than 1.4 million items. A science library and a departmental library are also available.

Outdoor areas owned by the university that are available for teaching and research studies include three forested areas, the Hults Environmental Learning Center, and the Ball State Wildlife Preserve. Classes also visit quarries, farms, water and wastewater treatment plants, industries, sanitary landfills, Prairie Creek Reservoir, and the White River.

State parks, state fish and wildlife areas, nature preserves, and the Hoosier National Forest are used during extended field studies. The department conducts field studies each summer to locations such as: the Great Lakes region, Florida, Canada, Europe, and Central America.