It's the best way you can spend your tuition dollars. You're actually getting out here and doing things instead of listening. That was the intent of Janovy and his colleagues Brent Nickol and Gary Hergenrader who 25 years ago took over a former Girl Scout camp to arrange a scholarly refuge for university students, researchers and instructors. They envisioned a place where biology could be experienced. During the summer, as many as 70 people a day sleep, eat and study at Cedar Point, working around the clock.
Students emerge from their summer studies as field scientists.
In 1983 I was an undergraduate out here, and took two classes. I realized you could get paid for doing biology in the field. Here, you get out and find the organisms. You know their whole environment. It's not just microscope work or preserved organisms from a catalog.