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
Classes for the 2025 field season will be announced by December 2024. Applications for those classes and scholarships at the University of Michigan Biological Station in northern Michigan will open at that same time.
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.
Courses can vary from year to year.
Scroll below to read the structure of courses during the 2024 spring and summer terms, which have concluded.
Spring Field Classes
May 21 - June 20, 2024
Choose one Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday course, and one Thursday, Friday, Saturday course.
Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday Courses
BIOLOGY 282, sect. 1 - General Ecology Lecture
EEB 373, sect. 1 - General Ecology Lab
EEB 405 - Eco-Evo-Devo: How Genome and Environment Affect Organismal Development
EEB 482 - Limnology: Freshwater Ecosystems
Thursday, Friday, Saturday Courses
BIOLOGY 282, sect. 2- General Ecology Lecture
EEB 373, sect. 2 - General Ecology Lab
EEB 455 - Ethnobotany
Summer Field Classes
July 2 - August 1, 2024
Choose one Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday course, and one Thursday, Friday, Saturday course.
OR choose only the GLACE Program.
Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday Courses
BIOLOGY 282, sect. 1 - General Ecology Lecture
EEB 373, sect. 1 - General Ecology Lab
EEB 405 - Agroecology
EEB 405 - Insights from Trees: Science, Art, and Observation in a Noisy World
EEB 486 - Field Studies of Freshwater Fishes
ENGLISH 221 / WGS 213-201 / AMCULT 311-202 – The Art of Observation
Thursday, Friday, Saturday Courses
BIOLOGY 207 - Microbiology
BIOLOGY 282, sect. 2 - General Ecology Lecture (CANCELED)
EEB 373, sect. 2 - General Ecology Lab
EEB 348 / ENVIRON 348 - Forest Ecosystems
EEB 453 - Field Mammalogy
ENGLISH 242 – Learning from the Landscape
Great Lakes Arts, Cultures, and Environments (GLACE) program
Monday, July 2 - Thursday, August 1
ENGLISH 221 / WGS 213-201 / AMCULT 311-202 – The Art of Observation
ENGLISH 242 – Learning from the Landscape
More information on this U-M English Department environmental humanities program available here.