urn:nasa:pds:context:facility:laboratory.ucberkeley-rfs 1.0 1.11.0.0 Product_Context 2019-02-12 1.0 Initial creation of the context product. urn:nasa:pds:context:instrument:ucberkeley-rfs.belly_wt facility_to_instrument University of California, Berkeley, Richmond Field Station Laboratory Environmental laboratory, operated by University of California, Berkeley, consisting of laboratory buildings, and natural marshland located on San Francisco Bay. This facility serves as an off-site training facilitly for large-scale engineering projects. With more than 500,000 assignable square feet of research space, the site houses the eleven floor, 7.4 million volume storage capacity Northern Regional Library Facility, serving as an archive for lesser used books for four northern UC campuses. The Richmond Field Station also serves as one of the world’s largest earthquake shaking tables, sophisticated test facilities for advanced transportation research, and a regional laboratory for U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. The open areas of the Field Station are also prized for their research and habitat value. The site contains one of the largest and best preserved remaining areas of native coastal grasslands that were once prevalent throughout the Bay Area. The adjacent stands of eucalyptus provide a home for wintering monarch butterflies and nesting raptors. The bay marsh and mudflats provide additional habitat for a variety of flora and fauna, including the endangered California Clapper Rail, as well as an opportunity for the Berkeley campus to use these areas for teaching and research.