The Louis Calder Center was founded in 1967 when paper magnate Louis Calder donated his 113-acre (0.46 km2) estate to Fordham University. Buildings have since been constructed, renovated, and modernized.
Buildings
The Louis Calder Center consists of 19 buildings including:
Calder Hall - A 27-room stone mansion which houses seminar rooms, a library, herbarium, insect collection, guest rooms, kitchen, and dining room.
louis, calder, center, fordham, university, biological, field, station, calder, center, protected, forest, preserve, located, miles, north, york, city, armonk, york, only, full, time, ecological, research, field, station, york, metropolitan, area, contents, hi. The Louis Calder Center is Fordham University s biological field station The Calder Center is a protected forest preserve located 30 miles 48 km north of New York City in Armonk New York and is the only full time ecological research field station in the New York metropolitan area Contents 1 History 2 Buildings 3 Calder Lake 4 External linksHistory EditThe Louis Calder Center was founded in 1967 when paper magnate Louis Calder donated his 113 acre 0 46 km2 estate to Fordham University Buildings have since been constructed renovated and modernized Buildings EditThe Louis Calder Center consists of 19 buildings including Calder Hall A 27 room stone mansion which houses seminar rooms a library herbarium insect collection guest rooms kitchen and dining room McCarthy Laboratories a building where a great amount of the analysis of samples is carried out The lab includes growth chambers a nutrient autoanalyzer gas chromatograph HPLC carbon nitrogen analyzer fluorescence and phase microscopes spectrophotometers autoclaves electronic balances refrigerators centrifuges and other scientific equipment Greenhouses Lakeside Lodge Routh HouseCalder Lake EditCalder Lake is a 4 hectare mesoeutrophic lake located within the Louis Calder Center The lake bottom is more than half covered by a submersed macrophyte community including Vallisneria americana Elodea canadensis Potamogeton amplifolius and Najas flexilis Since Calder Lake is relatively small the surrounding flora including Quercus rubra Quercus prinus Acer rubrum Fagus grandifolia and Cornus florida plays a significant role in its ecology as falling leaves add nutrients to the water The production rates of bacteria and larger phytoplankton in the lake are limited by the supply of inorganic phosphorus Dissolved organic carbon exists between 4 6 mg C L in the lake External links EditOfficial Website Portals New York City Catholicism Coordinates 41 07 28 N 73 43 49 W 41 124571 N 73 730297 W 41 124571 73 730297 This article about a university or college in New York is a stub You can help Wikipedia by expanding it vte Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Louis Calder Center amp oldid 924262633, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
