Berry Biodiversity Conservation Center
The Berry Biodiversity Conservation Center (Berry Center), completed and dedicated in January 2012, is a 40,000 square foot building housing multiple facilities, students, faculty members and programs all centered around the study of biodiversity. Made possible by a generous gift from Robert and Carol Berry, the Berry Center is a space to examine and explain biological diversity and the importance that diversity plays in maintaining the ecosystem that we all live in.
Cross-disciplinary Biodiversity Studies
The Berry Center serves as a focal point for the study, documentation and conservation of biodiversity, from spatial and temporal variations in ecosystems to the invisible variations within single genes. The Center supports the education and research of UW undergraduate and graduate students, faculty and staff in the related fields of ecology, genetics, population biology, systematics and molecular biology, and a variety of non-science-based disciplines such as philosophy and art.
Public Outreach Mission
The Center also contains a variety of public exhibitions, permanent and temporary, of biodiversity in Wyoming and beyond. Developed and maintained by the Univesity of Wyoming Biodiversity Institute, these exhibits include permanent exhibits on natural science collections, evolution and the "tree of life", the science of stable isotope analysis, the terrestrial and aquatic distribution of biodiversity accross Wyoming, and the popular "Kid's Corner", where young people can explore biodiversity though activities, games, a large viewing format microscope and live reptile displays.
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