The Anaconda field station and laboratory, located on site at the Anaconda Smelter site, Anaconda, Montana, is the staging area for all activities in the Anaconda Smelter Biomonitoring program.
The Station is literally an old railroad station that has been converted into a multi-purpose facility to support research carried out in the area. Outfitted as a laboratory, office and field station, TTU investigators have their center of operations at the station during the field season.
Studies to date have focussed on birds (American kestrels, European starlings and other passerine species) and small mammal populations.
Investigations at the Smelter site are a cooperative effort spearheaded by our group at TIEHH and funded through the US EPA, the US Fish and Wildlife Service, the Texas Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit and the NIEHS/USEPA Superfund Basic Research Program.
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