Happening @ Michigan https://events.umich.edu/list/rss RSS Feed for Happening @ Michigan Events at the University of Michigan. U-M Biological Station Virtual Information Session (November 12, 2020 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79062 79062-20184346@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 12, 2020 6:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: University of Michigan Biological Station

Join UMBS staff, faculty, and former students and learn about how a spring or summer term at the U-M Biological Station might just change your life. Earn credits, do research, make lifelong friendships.

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Livestream / Virtual Fri, 30 Oct 2020 10:44:17 -0400 2020-11-12T18:00:00-05:00 2020-11-12T19:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location University of Michigan Biological Station Livestream / Virtual A student works on a laptop on the sunny shores of Douglas Lake.
U-M Biological Station Prospective Student Info Session (February 25, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82003 82003-21004771@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 25, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: University of Michigan Biological Station

Undergrads: learn more about spring and summer courses and programming at the U-M Biological Station (UMBS). Chat with staff, former students, and UMBS faculty.

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 22 Feb 2021 12:21:48 -0500 2021-02-25T16:00:00-05:00 2021-02-25T17:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location University of Michigan Biological Station Livestream / Virtual Two students read books for class on the floating dock in Douglas Lake.
UMBS Summer Lecture Series: Hann Lecture in Ornithology (July 13, 2021 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/84356 84356-21623498@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, July 13, 2021 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: University of Michigan Biological Station

Piping Plover recovery: 40 years of science and conservation in the Great Lakes

Dr. Francie Cuthbert (University of Minnesota) will give this year's Hann Endowed Lecture in Ornithology on her decades-long effort to protect and preserve the Piping Plover - an endangered shorebird native to the Great Lakes Region.

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 06 Jul 2021 10:07:55 -0400 2021-07-13T19:00:00-04:00 2021-07-13T20:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location University of Michigan Biological Station Livestream / Virtual A Frontier Airlines jet named for Dr. Cuthbert
UMBS Summer Lecture Series: Pettingill Lecture in Natural History (July 21, 2021 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/84357 84357-21623499@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, July 21, 2021 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: University of Michigan Biological Station

Dr. Jessica Hellmann (University of Minnesota Institute on the Environment) will present this year's Pettingill Endowed Lecture in Natural History: Population biology in study, in practice, and in the human imagination.

From why some species might not move under a changing climate, to the steps we can take to overcome those limitations and, importantly: the many things we might need to know--and worry--about ecological intervention.

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Livestream / Virtual Fri, 25 Jun 2021 15:20:10 -0400 2021-07-21T19:00:00-04:00 2021-07-21T20:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location University of Michigan Biological Station Livestream / Virtual Dr. Jessica Hellmann
UMBS: Science Communication + Advocacy Panel (July 27, 2021 6:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/84649 84649-21624360@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, July 27, 2021 6:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: University of Michigan Biological Station

A moderated discussion hosted by Kayla Mathes (U-M '18, UMBS researcher and Virginia Commonwealth University doctoral candidate).

Early-career interdisciplinary scientists/UMBS community members Eva Roos, Hannah DeHetre, Laura Hickey, and Lisa Haber talk about what science communication means to them, how it plays a role in their own work and in the context of a field station, and how it can be used as a powerful tool for education and advocacy.

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 20 Jul 2021 09:23:51 -0400 2021-07-27T18:30:00-04:00 2021-07-27T19:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location University of Michigan Biological Station Livestream / Virtual Panelists Eva Roos, Hannah DeHetre, Laura Hickey, and Lisa Haber.
UMBS Summer Lecture Series: Bennett Lecture in Plant & Fungal Ecology (August 10, 2021 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/84358 84358-21623500@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, August 10, 2021 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: University of Michigan Biological Station

Dr. Knute Nadelhoffer (University of Michigan Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Professor Emeritus) will present this year's Bennett Endowed Lecture in Plant & Fungal Ecology: Biological Controls on Forest Soil Organic Matter Accumulation:
Lessons from the DIRT Collaboration.

Globally, soils store more than twice as much carbon in organic forms as exists in the atmosphere as carbon dioxide (CO2). Because plant-soil systems, such as northern forests, exchange carbon with the atmosphere, small percentage changes in carbon contents of extensive ecosystems such as temperate forests can lead to significant changes in atmospheric CO2¬¬, a powerful heat-trapping gas that affects global temperatures. In addition to serving as a global carbon reservoir, soil organic matter (SOM) is a critical ecosystem component that affects soil physical, chemical, and biological properties. SOM serves to increase soil water retention, to store, recycle, and release nutrients for forest tree growth, and to protect stream and groundwater quality. Importantly, SOM enhances environmental conditions leading to high levels of biodiversity consisting of complex microbial and faunal communities that serve to maintain ecosystem and human health.

This talk will present results from a network of long-term experiments, referred to as “DIRT” (Detrital Input and Removal Treatments, including a 15-year experiment at the UM Biological Station), which is focused on understanding how forest leaf and root litter function to control SOM accumulations in forest soils.

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Livestream / Virtual Fri, 06 Aug 2021 10:44:40 -0400 2021-08-10T19:00:00-04:00 2021-08-10T20:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location University of Michigan Biological Station Livestream / Virtual Dr. Knute Nadelhoffer