Nantucket Field Station

Nantucket Field Station UMass Boston's field station for education, research, and community service opportunities, in conjunction with the Nantucket Conservation Foundation.

The Nantucket Field Station is a satellite campus of the University of Massachusetts at Boston. It sits on 107 acres owned by the Nantucket Conservation Foundation and is managed by the University of Massachusetts at Boston. The estuary, harbor, streams, kettle pond, meadow and heath are all to be admired and studied. The public is welcomed to walk the trails or the beach of the grounds daily from

9am to 7pm, unless otherwise posted. Groups of 12 or more are asked to call or email in advance to check-in with the station director prior to visiting. Immersive accredited courses are open to students from any institution to take. A range of research by scientists and scholars from many institutions and agencies is supported at the Nantucket Field Station.

04/15/2026

We are looking forward to the summer! There are a few seats left in the July summer courses, apply on our website.

These are some of our visiting winter researchers and their fascinating work.
03/31/2026

These are some of our visiting winter researchers and their fascinating work.

August is a great time to take a course on Nantucket! Beth Boyle is back to teach Marine and Coastal Ecological Research...
03/04/2026

August is a great time to take a course on Nantucket! Beth Boyle is back to teach Marine and Coastal Ecological Research Methods. To learn more visit https//www.umb.edu/nantucket/courses

We are happy to offer Spiders on Nantucket once again! 4 credits 3 weeks long.Learn more at https//www.umb.edu/nantucket...
03/04/2026

We are happy to offer Spiders on Nantucket once again! 4 credits 3 weeks long.
Learn more at https//www.umb.edu/nantucket/courses

Applications are open for our summer 2026 college courses: Ornithology, Spiders and Marine and Coastal Ecological Resear...
03/04/2026

Applications are open for our summer 2026 college courses: Ornithology, Spiders and Marine and Coastal Ecological Research Methods!
Learn more on our website: https://www.umb.edu/nantucket

The wrack line is, as expected, quite high, showing the high tide reached the dunes and bluff edge. The landscape out h...
02/24/2026

The wrack line is, as expected, quite high, showing the high tide reached the dunes and bluff edge. The landscape out here has both drifts and crusty areas, ice coated shrubs and some downed trees. Sadly we lost a favorite red cedar but the power is on again and we otherwise have no major damage.

Folger's Marsh is doing its job of absorbing storm surge water. We have a storm surge and power outage on this end of th...
02/23/2026

Folger's Marsh is doing its job of absorbing storm surge water. We have a storm surge and power outage on this end of the island. It is almost lowtide but the water has not receded out of the marsh very much at all. Stay warm everyone!

Got GIS and Botany skill set?https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1L2osu38KE/
01/31/2026

Got GIS and Botany skill set?

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We’re hiring! We are looking for a Seasonal Botany Technician to join our team. This is a contracted seasonal position.

For a full job description and how to apply, visit bit.ly/3NEtF3v

The marsh and harbor are frozen out here. Feeling rather Dr. Zhivago-ish.
01/31/2026

The marsh and harbor are frozen out here. Feeling rather Dr. Zhivago-ish.

Our busy January is coming to a close, but the activity continues! Elli Heywood and her team from NOAA are staying on, n...
01/30/2026

Our busy January is coming to a close, but the activity continues! Elli Heywood and her team from NOAA are staying on, not going anywhere but to find gray seals when the weather permits. It was wonderful to have one of our NFS interns, Janeyssy Morillo back in the lab helping to crank out results on the summer eelgrass samples collected for the genetics project we are working on, generously funded by Great Harbor Yacht Club Foundation. Juanita Urban Rich and Laura Castro Diaz were here and we look forward to seeing them at Sciencefest! AJ Paprocki stopped by as well, it was so nice to see them. Stay warm all!

We have an abundance of tracks in the snow, wild and domestic. Not a lot of diversity of tracks here on Nantucket but ma...
01/29/2026

We have an abundance of tracks in the snow, wild and domestic. Not a lot of diversity of tracks here on Nantucket but many sizes of rabbit, deer, gray squirrel, and dog tracks, of course too!
Rabbit and squirrel tracks in the snow might seem similar but rabbits have small round toes and fur covered feet while squirrels have long fingers.

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180 Polpis Road
Nantucket, MA
02554

Opening Hours

Monday 9am - 5pm
Tuesday 9am - 5pm
Wednesday 9am - 5pm
Thursday 9am - 5pm
Friday 9am - 5pm
Saturday 9am - 5pm
Sunday 9am - 5pm

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