Kansas University and Kansas State University will allow some field sites to be used for a national study on climate change.

The two universities said in news release Monday that the National Science Foundation will use the sites to study climate change, land use and invasive species.

The biological field stations could be used for the study for up to 30 years, one of the most long-term initiatives in the history of the National Science Foundation.

The research will include building monitoring towers, soil studies and studies of animals, insects and temperatures. The foundation funds the National Ecological Observatory Network, which studies climate’s impact on a continental scale.