University of Michigan Biological Station (UMBS)

Apply for 2025 Field-based Courses and Scholarships at the U-M Biological Station Students from universities all over the world are welcome to apply for courses and scholarships during the four-week spring and summer terms.

U-M Biological Station Releases Field Guide Identify wildlife and nature in and around Douglas Lake with the UMBS Field Guide, a reference tool informed by our scientific experts and private citizens during a BioBlitz that tallied the living things that call this part of northern Michigan home.

U-M Biological Station Burn Plots: Story Map Explores Historic Research Subjected to logging and fires, the more than 100-year series of ecological sites serve as a time machine that allows scientists to look back at forests of different ages and study disturbance, succession and forest ecology.

A Cabin in the Woods | University of Michigan Heritage Project For more than 100 years, students have scrawled on U-M Biological Station cabin walls. The graffiti serves as a rustic time capsule of a summertime experience many say changed their lives.

Spring and summer undergraduate classes at UMBS Field-based science and interdisciplinary courses. Beautiful scenery. Immersive research projects. What could be better? Learn more.

From Chemistry Labs to Atmospheric Towers: World Class Research Facilities Interested in doing research at the Station or curious what we have to offer? Read all about our research facilities.

Living Together, Learning Together at UMBS What's it like to spend a spring or summer at a biological field station? Read all about it here.

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Recent News

Where Learning Meets the Wild: Spring Term Move-in Day at U-M Biological Station

More than 70 students settled into their cabins at the University of Michigan Biological Station on May 20 to launch the 2025 spring term featuring four weeks of field-based courses immersed in nature.

Undergraduate Students at U-M Biological Station Co-Author Mite-y Research Paper in Scientific Journal

The journal Ecology and Evolution published a research paper co-authored by all students in the 2024 Insights From Trees class at the University of Michigan Biological Station evaluating the abundance of mites on foliage from woody plant species.

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