Many different research projects have used the ponds facility, including:

• Influence of pond fertility on fish growth
• Parental care and breeding biology of tree swallows
• Avian migration and dispersal
• Ecoimmunology in birds
• Nutrition and energetics in tree swallows
• Growth and competitive interaction of emergent marsh vegetation
• Phenological studies of bulrush
• Long-term changes in marsh water chemistry
• Loss of N from aquatic systems
• Influence of environmental factors on algal productivity
• Aquatic herbicide evaluation
• Effects of nutrient enrichment on aquatic systems
• Structure and production dynamics of freshwater communities
• Brood parasitism in cowbirds
• Sexual selection in red-winged blackbirds
• Behavioral ecology of house wrens
• Influences on decomposition rates (forensic anthropology)
• Female mimicry in bluegill sunfish
• Territorial behavior of the green frog
• Effects of varying light levels upon early aquatic plant growth using neutral density shades