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Our mission is to educate and engage students & visitors about the Ohio River ecosystem and empower them to make a positive impact on the environment.

The Thomas More University Biology Field Station is a one-of-a-kind center for aquatic biology research whose reach is as wide and powerful as the Ohio River. Located just thirty minutes from the main Thomas More campus, the Station, one of the original lock and dam facilities, is perched on the shore of the Ohio River. Through hands-on inquiry-based teaching methods, the faculty and students at the Station educate and engage visitors about the Ohio River ecosystem and surrounding watershed, teach the value of the watershed to those who live within it, and empower students to make a positive impact on the River and surrounding environment.

10/22/2026

LET NATURE TAKE ITS COURSE? How about let nature BE the course. Spent the week at the Bio Station and on the water with the Thomas More University Invertebrate Zoology class on Wednesday and the University of Cincinnati Aquatic Biology class today. No better way to learn the biodiversity and ecology of our region than getting out in nature.

10/17/2026

ORBA! This week, our Thomas More University undergraduate interns, including our KY NSF EPSCoR fellows and two alumni, presented their research at the Ohio River Basin Alliance - ORBA Summit in Columbus while networking with other academics, governmental agencies, nonprofits, and industry leaders around the Basin. We couldn’t be more proud of their performance and professionalism. Looking forward to continuing our working together and excited about the bright futures ahead of each of them.

10/09/2026

10/08/2026

10/06/2026

MUSSELS! Today, we hosted a mussel tagging event with Keep KY wild members along with faculty and students from Thomas More who assisted the staff from the Kentucky Fish and Wildlife Center for Mollusk Conservation. Over 3500 dwarf rainbow mussels and paper pondshell mussels were tagged and measured, soon to be released back into the wild to bolster natural populations!

09/27/2026

Happy Fall from the Bio Station!

07/27/2026

THANK YOU! We are grateful to everyone who attended Saturday's Concert for Conservation at the Thomas More University Biology Field Station. Thanks to old and new "Friends of the Field Station," we raised over $18,000 for our conservation and education programs with our biggest crowd yet.

Among the many activities at the event, we were excited to officially share our new mural by Michael Thompson (TMU '21) with the community and hear what it meant to him to work on this project.

Special thanks to our volunteers, exhibitors, and sponsors—including gold level sponsors Louisville Zoo and Schack’s Yaks—for helping make the event such a successful one. See you next year!

07/18/2026

ONE WEEK AWAY—CONCERT for CONSERVATION!

We can’t believe we’re just one week out from the Biology Field Station’s annual “Raisin’ Hellbenders on the River: Concert for Conservation” on Saturday, July 25 from 3-9 pm!

Tickets are available for pre-purchase until Friday at 12pm. Pending event capacity, tickets can be purchased at the door. Visit the link in ’s bio or tmuky.us/concertrsvp to secure your spot.

Swipe to see the set list, organizations that will be in the exhibitors area from 3-5pm, the sponsors and partners that make the event possible, and a list of activities at the event—including viewing the Station’s brand-new mural and remarks from the artist at 5:45 pm.

We hope to see you there!

Address

8309 Mary Ingles Highway
California, KY
41007

Telephone

+18596356941

Website

https://www.thomasmore.edu/biology-field-station/

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