The interdisciplinary nature of the research that Brackenridge Field Laboratory supports, along with its strong role in mentoring undergraduate and graduate research, continue to make BFL an extraordinary and unique research unit. Faculty and students have performed studies of a broad range of subdiciplines within the field of environmental biology, including microevolution, ethology, and ecosystem dynamics. Long-term records of BFL’s 82 acres of habitat offer a special ecological research opportunity for expanding on benchmark studies of environmental and organismal change within a near-urban context. Documentation of the native insect and plant communities at the field station has placed BFL in the unique position to become a research center on recent invaders like the imported fire ant and tawny crazy ant. Brackenridge Field Lab is also in position to gain a place at the forefront of ecosystem level studies of environmental change due to climate, urbanization patterns and other phenomena at the population, community and ecosystem levels.