Facilities

On Campus Facilities

ALES has over 11,000 square meters of research and teaching lab facilities available to meet the needs of academic staff and students. We have over 200 department and trust funded technical staff who work to support research and teaching in the Faculty.

Off Campus Facilities/Research Stations

 
Breton Plots
The Breton Plots are located near the village of Breton, 100 km southwest of Edmonton. The Breton Plots provide a model of how diverse cropping practices affect typical Gray Luvisolic soils. They are currently used to assess the interactions between the global environment, crop productivity and soil quality. 

Edmonton Research Station 
The Edmonton Research Station is located on South Campus two kilometres south of main campus. The 600 acre research station is an integral part of the Faculty, housing some of the best agricultural research and teaching facilities in North America. These include: Agri-Food Discovery Place, the Laird McElroy Environmental and Metabolic Research Facility, the Crops & Land Resource Facility, the Dairy Research & Technology Centre, the Poultry Research Centre and the Swine Research & Technology Centre.

Ellerslie Research Station
Ellerslie Research Station is located on the southern boundary of the City of Edmonton. Comprised of several buildings including office, lab, processing, storage and maintenance facilities, and 60 ha of land, Ellerslie Research Station serves as the primary field operations facility for the Department of Renewable Resources from which agricultural, environmental and forestry field teaching and research needs can be serviced throughout the province.

EMEND
The EMEND Project, located in the boreal mixedwood forest near Peace River, Alberta, Canada, is a large-scale variable retention harvest experiment designed to test the effects of residual forest structure on ecosystem integrity and forest regeneration at the forest stand level. 

George Lake
The George Lake research site, located one hour north-west of Edmonton is used for studying forest and aquatic ecosystems. Two long term population ecology studies are ongoing at George Lake; one experiment pond has had the water strider population captured, recorded and marked during the ice free period for the past 2 decades; in the other beetle enclosures were established on the site in the early 1990s and have been re-sampled every few years since.

Kinsella Research Station
The Kinsella Research Station is located approximately two and a half hours south-east of Edmonton. The ranch is used for beef genomics, production and range management research with a herd of over 850 heads of cattle. The ranch is also home to Precision Ranching Research which studies the complexities of animal environment interactions.

St. Albert Research Station
The St. Albert Research Station, located three kilometres north of St. Albert on Highway 2, hosts a variety of environmental and crop research projects on 777 acres and provides the Faculty with the added ability to grow and expand in the future. The creation of the St. Albert Research Station was only possible thanks to a generous gift of land from the Bocock Family.

Mattheis Ranch

The Mattheis Ranch is located near Duchess, 150 km east of Calgary.  The ranch is composed primarily of rangeland and about 700 acres of irrigated cultivated land. It is a microcosm of southern Alberta and has a diversity of ecosystems and habitats, a rich variety of plant life, different riparian areas along the Red Deer River and the Matziwin Creek, and several created wetlands that are managed for wildlife habitat.  The research activities undertaken on the Ranch will be focused on the principle of a holistic approach to sustainable management of rangelands.  The Mattheis Ranch was a generous donation from Edwin and Ruth Mattheis.