The Geohazards Field Station is a location dedicated to large-scale (“too large for a lab”) experimentation of hazardous processes. It is a multi-purpose collaborative user facility that is in current use and also experiences ongoing development to broaden the experimental capabilities in the near future. The Field Stations is supported by University at Buffalo's extreme events long term strategic strengths effort. It's heart is a piece of land, located about 50 miles (80 km) South of Buffalo, which provides 700 acres prepared, experimentally usable area.

The Field Station provides the fundamental infrastructure and expertise for experimental large-scale projects. An on-site multi-purpose building supplies electricity and gas, provides equipment and office space as well as basic machining capabilities. Established connections to suppliers of the necessary large material volumes (e.g. gravel material), to contractors for ground motion and to community mitigators ensure the site’s good workflow. The constantly growing equipment pool currently features a microphone set (20 kHz), a diverse imaging pool: still image cameras, embedded and high-quality standard speed (HD and 4k) cameras, and several high-speed imaging systems (practical frame rates up to 5000 fps), Geophones, wide-frequency range ground pressure sensors, and free air blast sensors. A data acquisition system, and a robust, low-latency synchronization system provides a central common high-precision time line for sensors and cameras. A rock melting facility with application focus on volcanic processes as e.g. melt-water interaction is currently under construction (see below).

Excellent opportunities for student training is a natural consequence of the Field Stations motivational focus on hazardous processes, and it's interdisciplinary architecture. As the experimental scale places the Field Station between Geosciences, Engineering and Physics, the wide scientific interfaces provide opportunities in many different flavors, reaching from practical, hands-on training to complex experimental conceptual design and theoretical modeling.