PB graduate students and faculty have access to excellent greenhouse and growth chamber facilities, as well as outstanding curated living and herbaria plant collections. As the flagship campus of the UMass system the university has state-of-the art instrumentation and computational capacity for genomics, biochemical and cell biological studies. There are multiple sites for field research and teaching, along with plant, soil and water diagnostic laboratories.
Greenhouses and Plant Collections
CNS Research and Education Greenhouses
Natural History Collections (including the Herbarium and Ray Ethan Torrey Botanical Greenhouse)
Research Equipment and Core Facilities
Massachusetts Green High Performance Computing Center
Biophysical Characterization Core (CD, AUC, light scattering, X-ray, etc)
Keck Electron Microscopy Center
Field Research and Teaching Facilities
Agriculture Learning Center (Amherst)
Crop and Animal Research and Education Center (South Deerfield)
Joseph Troll Turf Research Facility (South Deerfield)
Cold Spring Orchard (Belchertown)
Cranberry Experiment Station (East Wareham)
UMass Center for Urban Sustainability (Waltham)
Diagnostic Laboratories
Soil and Plant Tissue Testing Laboratory
Environmental Analysis Laboratory
Additional Resources
Center for Agriculture, Food, and the Environment
Department of Environmental Conservation Forest Properties
Water Resources Research Center
