Important Dates
Applications Priority Deadline: March 15, 2025
Final Application Deadline for Spring Term: April 30, 2025
Final Application Deadline for Summer Term: May 30, 2025
Spring 2025 Term: May 20 – June 19
Summer 2025 Term: July 1 – July 31
UMBS Courses for Four-week Spring and Summer Terms
Applications are open for classes and scholarships at the University of Michigan Biological Station for the 2025 field season in northern Michigan.
We welcome all majors and minors. Most courses have a research component. No prior field experience is required.
Courses are taught during four-week spring and summer terms.
All students can be considered for UMBS scholarship funding, including guest and international students.
Spring Field Classes
May 20 - June 19, 2025
Choose one Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday course, and one Thursday, Friday, Saturday course.
Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday Courses
General Ecology Lecture (BIOLOGY 282) sect. 1 | TBD
Field Ornithology* (EEB 330) | Price
General Ecology Lab (EEB 373) | Monks
Conservation Biology in Practice (EEB 405) | Jamieson - NEW COURSE
Observation & Modeling of Climate Change Biology (EEB 405) | Bohrer - NEW COURSE
*new course name for Biology of Birds
Thursday, Friday, Saturday Courses
General Ecology Lecture (BIOLOGY 282) sect. 2 | Moore
Rivers, Lakes & Wetlands (EEB 321/ENVIRON 331) | Dziuba
General Ecology Lab (EEB 373) sect. 2 | MacKay
Ethnobotany (EEB 455) | Benedict
Field Botany (EEB 556) | Davis & Fawcett
Summer Field Classes
July 1 - July 31, 2025
Choose one Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday course, and one Thursday, Friday, Saturday course.
Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday Courses
Forest Ecosystems (EEB 348/ENVIRON 348) | Ibáñez & Cousins
General Ecology Lab (EEB 373) | Barrios-Garcia
Field Mycology (EEB 405) | James - NEW COURSE
Field Ecology (EEB 478) | TBD
Environmental Writing: The Art of Observation (ENGLISH 221) | Gwin
Thursday, Friday, Saturday Courses
Intro to Microbiology (BIOLOGY 207) | TBD
General Ecology Lecture (BIOLOGY 282) | Rodriguez-Cabal
Field Studies of Insects (EEB 405) | Haan - NEW COURSE
Insights from Trees: Science, Art and Observation in a Noisy World (EEB 405) | Weber
Learning from the Landscape (ENGLISH 242) | Roos
Are you a Transfer Bridges to the Humanities (TB2H) student looking for GLACE? Contact your LSA transfer advisor for details on how to apply for this opportunity!