Research at UMBS

• Our Researchers
• Our Data Resources
• Our Properties & Maps
• Our Organizations
• Our Facilities
• Other Useful Sites

Our Researchers

• Research Guide - Work in progress.
• Research News - The latest published UMBS papers..
• Research Histories
  • A 75-year history of aquatic research at UMBS - G. Win Fairchild, 1983.
  • Changes in the upland forests of the Douglas Lake region over the past 75 years - Claudia L. Jolls, 1983.
  • Research through the formative years. - Paul Welch, 1959.
• Research Humor and biological limericks.

Our Data Resources

• Climatology
  • USDA Ultraviolet Radiation Monitoring Program - The uvb network.
  • Solar Radiation Data - Our own pyranometer data from 1981.
  • Weather - Monthly weather tower data (temp. & wind).
  • Monthly Precipitation 1979- and monthly averages chart.
  • Winter - How much lake effect snow falls and what does it look like? 
  • Windrose(data) - and windrose chart.
  • Biotron Soil moisture - summary sheet of all sampling dates.
  • July Weather - A summary of July's weather at UMBS, starting 1912.
  • August Weather - A summary of August's weather at UMBS, also starting 1912.
  • Local Climatological Data
    • Pellston's monthly total precipitation and its monthly mean temperature date from 1942.
    • Cheboygan's precipitation and temperature records date from 1898.
    • Mackinaw City's precipitation and temperature records also date from 1898.

• Atmospheric Chemistry
  • National Atmospheric Deposition Program - The acid rain network.

• Bibliographies.
  • Click here to find out about obtaining your own CD copy of these databases and a trial copy of Procite 5.
  • UMBS Bibliography - Our published papers (A long list of 2577 references).
  • UMBS Theses & Dissertations - a subset of the Bibliography.
  • UMBS Student Papers - 3346 papers through Aug. 2001! Everything you wanted to know about N. Michigan.

• Douglas Lake
  • Douglas Lake Profile, 1972 - Acrobat document.
  • SFBay ICE Data. Ice out was 17 April 2002, and Chris Vogel won the contest.
  • Douglas Lake Average Level - monthly averages.
  • Douglas Lake Level - 80 year lake level graph.
  • Water Chemistry Profiles - Temp., pH, DO, Cond.
  • Douglas Lake bathymetric map.

• Tip-of-the-Mitt Lakes - Water Chemistry Data for 38 lakes in Emmet and Cheboygan Counties, by the RANN Project.

• Our Gazetteer - Official place names.

• UMBS Permanent Plots
  • Fifty Year Plots and their Bibliography.
  • Forestry Plots and their Bibliography.
  • Burn Plots and their Bibliography.
  • Wells Plot - and its Bibliography (2860 mapped trees).
  • Mammal Trapping Grids.
  • Monthly data from the Michigan Gradient plots on N. Ayr Rd. west of Pellston.

Our Properties & Maps

• Property, siteuse, and campus maps (and ski trails).
• The Pellston-Riggsville area.
• Sugar Island area and Land Cover map.
  • Information about Chase S. Osborn, the Iron Hunter, former Governor, and U of M Regent.
• Ecosystem and Cover Type Maps (Barnes research group).
  • Douglas Lake major-minor landforms , cover types , and landscape ecosystems (with ecosystem guide).
  • Colonial Point landscape ecosystems and cover types.
• USGS Maps - available for use.

Our Organizations

• Organization of Biological Field Stations - (OBFS) - Other biological stations.
• US Man and the Biosphere Program.

Our Facilities and Research Oppportunities

UMBS has a long tradition of research. We welcome Senior Investigators as well as Graduate Student Investigators who are progressing toward a degree. For more information and a Research Application, e-mail the UMBS Office or phone 734 763-4461.

• Facilities
  • The George R. LaRue Library
  • Lakeside Lab (and Stockroom).
  • Soil Biotron
  • Greenhouse
  • Stream Research Facility with water chemistry from its intake in the East Branch - Maple River.
  • Prophet - Atmospheric Chemistry Tower
  • Ameriflux CO2 Tower
  • Classrooms - How the labs are named - short biographies of former faculty.
• Collections - Vascular Plants, Lichens and Bryophytes, Algae, Birds, Insects, Molluscs, & Mammals.

Other Useful Sites

• MSU Climatology Page
• Great Lakes Coast Watch Program
• US Long-Term Ecological Research Network
• The Great Lakes Atlas - 3rd Edition
• GLIN - Great Lakes Information Network
• US Army Corps of Engineers - The Detroit District's Home Page
• Bird Banding Lab
• USGS - Geographic Name Information Service
• US Fish & Wildlife Service
• U. Michigan Animal Diversity Web

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File last revised 3 October 2002 by bvk@umich.edu

Bob Vande Kopple, Resident Biologist
The University of Michigan
Biological Station
Pellston, MI 49769
Voice:  231 539-8407
Fax:    231 539-8785
Web site:   http://www.umich.edu/~umbs/research/research.htm