Hancock Biological Station - Research & Education Facilities

HBS Research and Education Facilities
For pictures of each of the buildings and facilities, click on the titles. Locations of each can be found on the STATION MAP

MAIN BUILDING - Contains main offices, class and lecture rooms, research laboratories, and kitchen/dining room

RESOURCE BUILDING* - Contains class and research space, Herbarium, shop/fabrication areas, and storage.

MESOCOSM FACILITY* - Composed of a 1600 sq ft glasshouse for controlled experiments, wet laboratories, and 5000 sq ft outside mesocosm area.

BOATHOUSE - Contains 8 slips and 2 enclosed research/storage areas; houses the Station's 3, 28-ft pontoon boats and the Surveyor I research vessel

WELL HOUSE - Station water supply; also contains forestry/maintenance/fabrication area

PICNIC AREA - Available for University sponsored functions; also contains canoes, rowboats, and sailboats and a paddle/life preserver storage building

PAVILION - Solar powered. Available for University sponsored functions.

ARTIFICIAL WETLAND COMPLEX - Handles Station wastewater treatment; contains a wide variety of aquatic plants and is a prime bird viewing area

PRAIRIE - (not shown on map) - A natural prairie remnant that is maintained through controlled burns

PONDS - (not shown on map) - The Station maintains a number of small woodland ponds for research

NATURE TRAIL - More than a mile long, this interpretive trail was created by a local Boy Scout troop

HOUSING

RESEARCHER CABINS CONTAINING FULL KITCHENS AND BATHS

WOLFSON - Named in honor of Alfred and Emily Wolfson, this cabin can house up to 10 visitors

SCHNAUTZ* - Named in honor of Ed Schnautz, long-time Station Manager and naturalist.

RAFINESQUE* - Named in honor of Samuel Constantine Rafinesque, Kentucky naturalist in the early 1800s.

AUDUBON* - Named in honor of James J. Audubon, Kentucky naturalist and ornithologist in the early 1800s.

STUDENT CABINS SERVICED BY THE BATHHOUSE*

CABINS 1-10, 17 - 2 person units

CABINS 11-16 - 4 person units

* - Constructed with support from the National Science Foundation