Director; Professor, U-M Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology
About
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Research
I serve as Director of the University of Michigan Biological Station (UMBS), a field research and education center in the northern Lower Peninsula of Michigan. UMBS has supported ecological research and field-based education for over 117 years, and its long-term data archive is a rare and valuable resource for understanding how ecosystems change through time.
The station hosts a diverse research community from all over the world working across terrestrial, aquatic, and atmospheric systems, and welcomes researchers, scientists, artists, and scholars from the humanities, social sciences, public health, engineering, the arts, and beyond. If your work benefits from being here, you belong here.
We offer field courses that give undergraduate and graduate students direct experience doing science and internships in the field. Our students leave here with a deep connection to the antural world that they carry with them through their lives.
We are deeply committed to engaging with the communities of northern Michigan, building relationships that connect the station's work to the people and places around us.
My own research on climate-ecosystem interactions, soil biodiversity, and plant-fungal symbiosis shapes how I think about the station's scientific mission, connecting rigorous field science to the big questions about how ecosystems function and change under a warming climate.
