“Finding Yourself and the Island at the Field Station”
The Nantucket Independent, June 11, 2008
By Peter R. Brace
NANTUCKET -- Students who survive one of Dr. Sarah Oktay's intense, 90-minute lablecture fieldwork sessions at the University of Massachusetts' Nantucket Field Station off Polpis Road are rewarded with a peek inside her eerie Freezer of Death. ...
The field station still plays host to graduate students performing research, but is also open to the public 365 days a year from dawn until dusk for exploration of its trail system, salt marsh and beaches. ...
The field station opened in 1969 ... In May of 2004 ... the Nantucket Conservation Foundation committed to purchasing the 110-acre property including its buildings, 40-acre salt marsh, 2,000 feet of harbor beach frontage, meadows, upland shrub habitat and large freshwater pond for $22 million. ... ©
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