Angelo Science Center

The Angelo Coast Range Reserve’s Center for Environmental Sciences, made possible through a generous gift from the Richard and Rhoda Goldman Fund, was dedicated in 2004. The new Center provides modern facilities and equipment to support the reserve’s internationally recognized research in old-growth forested watersheds and freshwater ecology. Facility highlights include a small building complex with an office, a small (30-40 person capacity) conference or classroom, and rooms to house computers, including geographic information system (GIS) facilities; a library; and the reserve's natural history collections.  The complex also contains a dry and a wet lab, the latter with a dark room for microbial analyses (chlorophyll, epifluorescence microscopy), a lath house for plant population experiments, and an open-air sample processing area.

Research at the Angelo Reserve is at the forefront of environmental sciences and is highly regarded internationally.  The reserve is currently a major research site for the National Science Foundation’s National Center for Earth-Surface Dynamics (NCED). The new Center’s appealing, highly functional design is enabling researchers to realize the full potential of the site while also providing a meeting place for instructional and outreach activities.

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