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2016
July 2016
Dr. David Gates Memorial Service
April 2016
Orientation for 2016 Spring/Summer UMBS students
March 2016
LSA Major/Minor Expo
February 2016
Winter Research Meeting
Information Session: Meet the 2016 Classes
Ski Weekend
2015
November 2015
Information Session: Biological Station 2016 classes
LSA Major/Minor Meetup Sessions
August 2015
Research Seminar: The use of mapping drones for natural resource investigations: capabilities, limitations and case studies
Bennett Research Seminar: Top down, bottom up, and cross-habitat controls in algal-based river food webs
Bennett Endowed Lecture: Drought, floods, and alternate states in algal-based river food webs: The thirsty Eel
July 2015
Pettingill Research Seminar: Microbial responses to chronic soil warming and simulated nitrogen deposition
Pettingill Endowed Lecture: Soil fungi in a warmer, fertilized world
CANCELED: Discovery Day
All-Camp Lecture: Global Mercury Pollution: The Science and Policy behind the International Treaty to Reduce Mercury Use and Emissions
Lecture: What do we gain by limiting global warming to 2 degrees?
Hann Endowed Workshop: Making science appetizing
Hann Endowed Lecture: Bringing science to life with experimental documentary
June 2015
2 for 1 LECTURE: Currents in the Straits of Mackinac AND Weather during the Edmund Fitzgerald Storm of Nov. 10, 1975
LECTURE: Algae rulers of the water world
April 2015
Orientation for 2015 Students
February 2015
Winter Research Meeting
Information Session: Meet the Instructors
Student Research Fellowships Deadline
2014
November 2014
Information Session for Prospective Students
August 2014
Pettingill Endowed Seminar: Earthworms and Biogeochemistry of Carbon and Nitrogen
Pettingill Endowed Lecture: Earthworms in the Northern Forest
July 2014
Bennett Endowed Seminar: Nitrogen Limitation on Land: How Can It Exist in Earth System Models and What Are the Implications for Climate?
Bennett Endowed Lecture: Synergistic Interactions between Eutrophication and Climate Change: Implications for Water Quality in Lakes
Lecture: Hope is the Thing with Feathers: Americans and Three Birds
Lecture: The Echoes of their Wings: The Life and Legacy of the Passenger Pigeon
Hann Endowed Seminar: Land Use Homogenizes Biodiversity and Restructures the Tree of Life
Hann Endowed Lecture: Harmonizing Bird Conservation and Agricultural Production across Tropical Countryside
Climate Change Film and Discussion - "Years of Living Dangerously"
Discovery Day
May 2014
Lecture: Ecology and Conservation of the Kirtland's Warbler on Its Bahamas Wintering Grounds
April 2014
Orientation for Spring/Summer 2014 Students
March 2014
Garden Party
February 2014
Third Annual Winter Research Meeting
Third Annual Winter Research Meeting
UMBS Information Session for Prospective Students
Ski Weekend
2013
November 2013
Prospective Student Information Session
August 2013
FABS Weekend
Bennett Endowed Seminar: "Systematics and evolution of Barbados cherry family, <i>Malpighiaceae</i>"
Bennett Endowed Lecture: "The Big, the Bad, and the Beautiful: Parasitism and the Origin of the World’s Largest Flowers"
July 2013
Research Seminar: "Identifying, Quantifying and Mitigating Direct and Indirect Anthropogenic Effects on North Temperate Game Fishes"
Discovery Day
Lecture: "Five Things Everyone Should Know about Climate Change"
Research Seminar: "Evolution of New Steady States in High Arctic Lakes and Implications for Pollutant Dynamics"
Pettingill Endowed Research Seminar: "Understanding Behavioral Responses of Animals to a Noisy World"
Pettingill Endowed Lecture: "Soundscape Ecology: Understanding the Collective Sounds of the Environment"
Hann Endowed Seminar: "Studying Birds in the Context of the Annual Cycle: Carry-over Effects and Seasonal Interactions"
Hann Endowed Lecture: "Estimating the magnitude of direct bird mortality caused by anthropogenic threats in the United States"
June 2013
Research Seminar: "Impacts of Land Use on Microbial and Viral Diversity in Small Coastal Virginia Watersheds"
Film: Geology of Michigan
Film: Birds of the Gods
Lecture: "Invasion history, impacts on native species, and unexpected consequences of the introduction of round gobies into the Great Lakes"
Reading: "Biology and the Biological Station in Poetry"
Film: Lake Invaders
May 2013
Film: Addicted to Plastic
March 2013
UMBS Spring/Summer Student Orientation
February 2013
Garden Party
UMBS Winter Research Meeting, Second Annual
UMBS Prospective and New Student Pizza Panel
2012
November 2012
Information Session for Prospective Students
October 2012
Cure for the Common Coal
August 2012
Film: Power Surge
Hahn Endowed Research Seminar: "Lifetime Changes in Morphology of Cliff Swallows: The Effects of Climate Variables, Colony Size, Gender and Senescence"
Hahn Endowed Lecture: "Intense Natural Selection on Morphology of Cliff Swallows a Decade Later"
Film: The Economics of Happiness"
Research Seminar: "Behavioral, Ecological and Developmental Correlates of Stress in Ground Squirrels"
July 2012
Lecture: "Invasive Species: The Good, the Bad and the Beautiful"
Film: Human Footprint
Bennett Research Seminar: "The Enemy of My Enemy Is My Friend: Tritrophic Interactions and Plant Defense"
Bennett Endowed Lecture: "Conservation of Pollination Interactions in Pine Rocklands"
Film: Sustainable Table
Research Seminar: "Strategies of Water Use: How Different Trees Manage Their Water, and What It Means for the Forest As It Changes"
Film: The Greening of Southie
Discovery Day
Lecture: "The National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON): From Petals to Petabytes"
Film: Dirt! The Movie
Pettingill Lecture: "Why Scientists Keep Changing Their Minds and Other Interesting Things about How We Get and Use Scientific Information"
Pettingill Research Seminar: "Biological Invasions: A Conceptual Framework and Systematic Review"
Film: Caribou Summer
June 2012
Lecture: "Plankton Seasonality and Recurring Hypoxia in Lake Erie"
Film: Waterlife
May 2012
Lecture: "Rising Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide Does More Than Warm the Planet: Direct Effect on Plants, Herbivores and Natural Enemies"
Lecture: "Living with Fire: New Perspectives on Fire in Our Ecosystem and Culture"
Lecture: "Are There Reasons for the Demonstrable Variation of the UMBS Forests?"
Lecture: "Great Lakes Endemics: What's So Special about the Straits Area"
March 2012
UMBS 2012 Orientation and Information Session
Merit-Based Scholarship Deadline
Celebration of the Life and Career of Dr. Edward voss
CANCELED: Alumni and Friends Garden Party
UMBS Winter Research Meeting
February 2012
REU Deadline
2011
November 2011
Reading: "Marginalia for a Natural History" by Keith Taylor, poems inspired by UMBS
Conference: "The Great Lakes: Love Song and Lament"
Information Session for Prospective Students
September 2011
U-M "Earthfest"
August 2011
Friends and Alumni of the Biological Station (FABS) Weekend
Film: Food, Inc.
Bennett Research Seminar: Impacts of Climate Warming on Hybrid Zone Dynamics
Bennett Lecture: Does Specialization in Insect-Plant Interactions Drive Global Biodiversity?
Film Double Feature: "The City Dark"
Film Double Feature: "Parasites: A User's Guide"
Olin Sewall Pettingill Research Seminer in Natural History: "The Art of the Animateur: A Workshop for Practitioners"
Olin Sewall Pettingill Lecture in Natural History: "The Practicing Animateur"
July 2011
Film: Koyaanisqatsi
Lecture: The Diverse and Surprising Effects of Cyanobacterial Blooms on Lake Ecosystems and Food Webs
Film: Cane Toads
Research Seminar: Games Bowerbirds Play: When Male-Male Competition Gets Destructive
Lecture: Howl On! Wolves in Michigan's Northern Lower Peninsula
Film: Gasland
Discovery Day
Lecture: Helios Solar: An Introduction to Solar Power
Film: Green Fire
Harry Hann Endowed Research Seminar: "Vocal Duetting in Tropical Wrens: Acoustic Communication in the Animal Kingdom's Most Coordinated Singers
Harry Hann Endowed Lecture: The Secret Singing Lives of Chickadees
Film: Under Our Skin
June 2011
Lecture: "Why Do Smart People Believe Dumb Things? A Guide to Better Thinking."
Film: A Bug's Life
Film: "Parasites: A User's Guide" (2010)
Film: Sexual Encounters of the Floral Kind
May 2011
Lecture: "How Does Rising Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide Affect Plants, Herbivores and Natural Enemies?"
Film: Winged Migration
March 2011
Archaeology to Zoology: LSA Requirements and the U-M Biological Station
Garden Party
February 2011
CLEAR Panel: How Student Passion for Water Quality Spawned a Non-Profit and Launched Careers
2009
March 2009
U-M Biological Station (UMBS) Inforamtion Session