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Facilities and Partners

Campus Facilities

George D. Aiken Center

The first “net zero” building at ̽̽, the Aiken Center honors Vermont's distinguished late senator and governor. The Rubenstein School community, along with Maclay Architects of Waitsfield, Vermont, created a green, renovated Aiken Center, designed for more efficient space and sustainability.
A dense hardwood forest.

George D. Aiken Forestry Sciences Laboratory

This facility is shared by USDA Forest Service Northern Research Station scientists and staff in partnership with Rubenstein School faculty, staff, and students. Personnel are co-located at the Aiken Center on ̽̽ campus and this Forestry Sciences Laboratory about a mile from campus.
The ecosystem science laboratory building with Lake Champlain in the background.

Rubenstein Ecosystem Science Laboratory

An extension of the Rubenstein School of Environment and Natural Resources located at the ECHO, Leahy Center for Lake Champlain on the Burlington waterfront, this laboratory houses state-of-the-art research and teaching facilities.

Research Centers and Teaching Resources

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The Rubenstein School houses multiple centers of research excellence, advanced technological equipment, and access to expansive natural areas that support high-quality teaching and research.

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Research Vessel

The Rubenstein School's hybrid-electric research vessel, the Marcelle Melosira, is docked at the Rubenstein Ecosystem Science Laboratory on Lake Champlain in Burlington. The Marcelle Melosira is used for research, teaching, and outreach on the Lake.

R/V Marcelle Melosira
A student examines a heat map on a computer screen.

Spatial Analysis Laboratory

The Laboratory applies techniques in GIS, remote sensing, and spatial statistics to problems in natural resource ecology and planning. The Lab specializes in biodiversity analysis, land-cover mapping, planning for conservation lands, and disaster response.

A snowboarder navigates a backwoods trail.

Vermont Tourism Research Center

The Vermont Tourism Research Center is the only research center in the state focusing on tourism and recreation. The Center specializes in tourism that strengthens community vitality and promotes environmental stewardship.

Vermont Tourism Research Center
Lake Champlain

Vermont Water Resources and Lake Studies Center

The Vermont Water Resources and Lake Studies Center funds research on major water resource issues of concern to the state, disseminates results from that research, and helps to educate students about the nature and value of water resources.

Vermont Water Resources and Lake Studies Center
Doing research in one of ̽̽'s nearby forests.

University of Vermont Forests

The ̽̽ Forests provide a range of northern forest ecosystems for research, teaching, and demonstration. ̽̽ owns four forests throughout the State of Vermont: Jericho Research Forest, Talcott Woods, Wolcott Research Forest, and Washington Research Forest.

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A view from the peak of Mount Mansfield, cell towers in the distance.

University of Vermont Natural Areas

From more than one thousand acres along the shoreline of Shelburne Pond to less than three acres at Redstone Quarry, from the lowlands of Colchester Bog to the summit of Mount Mansfield, Vermont's highest peak, these natural areas provide outstanding resources to meet teaching and research needs.

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Partners

̽̽ Environmental Program

Environmental Program

The Environmental Program is a community of ideas, scholars, teachers, student-teachers, and engagement that spans across the ̽̽ campus, across the state of Vermont, and in some ways across the globe. The fabric of this big umbrella is ̽̽’s undergraduate student body studying the environment.
Forest Ecosystem Monitoring Cooperative

Forest Ecosystem Monitoring Cooperative

With staff that are part of the Rubenstein School, FEMC serves the northeast temperate forest region through improved understanding of long-term trends, annual conditions, and interdisciplinary relationships of the physical, chemical, and biological components of forested ecosystems.
Gund Institute for Environment

Gund Institute for Environment

At the heart of the Gund Institute for Environment are research programs that aim to develop new ideas, test existing theories, and put the best of both into real-world practice. Gund fellows, post-docs, and students investigate interactions among ecological, social, and economic systems.
McIntire Stennis

McIntire-Stennis Cooperative

The McIntire-Stennis Cooperative Forestry Research Program in the Rubenstein School is funded through the USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture as a formula-based program for forestry and natural resources research at land-grant and related universities.