Aimee Classen
@aclassen.bsky.social
Global change & Ecosystem Ecologist, Director of the University of Michigan Biological Station, Prof in UMich EEB, mom of two active kids
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Aimee Classen
@aclassen.bsky.social
· Jan 8
Looking for a place to conduct your research? 100 years of place-based data & information, fellowships to help support researchers & grad students, fully funded summer camp for your kids (if you have 'em). Apply today! We are actively recruiting new research teams. Join our incredible community.
Come work at the UMich Biological Station as a Michigan Fellow (you don't have to be a biologist)! Apply today: societyoffellows.umich.edu/uncategorize...
Apply Now: Michigan Society of Fellows 2026-2029 Postdoctoral Fellowships – University of Michigan Society of Fellows, Established 1970
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August 2, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Come work at the UMich Biological Station as a Michigan Fellow (you don't have to be a biologist)! Apply today: societyoffellows.umich.edu/uncategorize...
Reposted by Aimee Classen
Join us! Explore the lives of loons, how climate change affects your health, the fascinating world of fungi, manoomin (wild rice) restoration, and harmful algal blooms in the Great Lakes on Wednesdays at 7 p.m. during the Summer Lectures at the Michigan Biological Station. Schedule: myumi.ch/E88yg
University of Michigan Biological Station Invites Public to Free Summer Lectures | U-M LSA University of Michigan Biological Station (UMBS)
On Wednesdays at 7 p.m., topics include the fascinating world of fungi, how climate change affects your health, all about the Common Loon, manoomin (wild rice) restoration, and nitrogen as a driver of...
myumi.ch
May 13, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Join us! Explore the lives of loons, how climate change affects your health, the fascinating world of fungi, manoomin (wild rice) restoration, and harmful algal blooms in the Great Lakes on Wednesdays at 7 p.m. during the Summer Lectures at the Michigan Biological Station. Schedule: myumi.ch/E88yg
Join us! Explore the lives of loons, how climate change affects your health, the fascinating world of fungi, manoomin (wild rice) restoration, and harmful algal blooms in the Great Lakes on Wednesdays at 7 p.m. during the Summer Lectures at the Michigan Biological Station. Schedule: myumi.ch/E88yg
University of Michigan Biological Station Invites Public to Free Summer Lectures | U-M LSA University of Michigan Biological Station (UMBS)
On Wednesdays at 7 p.m., topics include the fascinating world of fungi, how climate change affects your health, all about the Common Loon, manoomin (wild rice) restoration, and nitrogen as a driver of...
myumi.ch
May 13, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Join us! Explore the lives of loons, how climate change affects your health, the fascinating world of fungi, manoomin (wild rice) restoration, and harmful algal blooms in the Great Lakes on Wednesdays at 7 p.m. during the Summer Lectures at the Michigan Biological Station. Schedule: myumi.ch/E88yg
UMBS Stewards have been busy this spring! The volunteers worked to clear the Gorge, a beautiful hiking trail at the field research station, and also collected 237 pounds of trash along 3.8 miles of Riggsville Road — 62 lbs. per mile. Meet the Stewards: myumi.ch/r8E6M
UMBS Stewards Ensure Public Can Safely Access Trails, Connect with Nature | U-M LSA University of Michigan Biological Station (UMBS)
For more than 20 years, a volunteer corps of friends and neighbors to the University of Michigan Biological Station has helped with property management projects. UMBS leaders plan to expand the Stewar...
myumi.ch
May 13, 2025 at 2:23 AM
UMBS Stewards have been busy this spring! The volunteers worked to clear the Gorge, a beautiful hiking trail at the field research station, and also collected 237 pounds of trash along 3.8 miles of Riggsville Road — 62 lbs. per mile. Meet the Stewards: myumi.ch/r8E6M
We still have slots in summer courses. Science AND humanities courses. Come join our incredible community.
May 9, 2025 at 2:40 PM
We still have slots in summer courses. Science AND humanities courses. Come join our incredible community.
Such a fun visit! Incredible science, people and place. Thank you.
May 6, 2025 at 1:25 AM
Such a fun visit! Incredible science, people and place. Thank you.
ALLIES IN THE WILD: Undergraduates in the Insights From Trees class at the UMBS are co-authors on a Webber lab pub on mite domatia! Students to join her July 1 – 31 in northern Michigan for her four-week course. Ap deadline is May 30. Apply for her 2025 course: myumi.ch/z9XX2
Undergraduate Students at U-M Biological Station Co-Author Mite-y Research Paper in Scientific Journal | U-M LSA University of Michigan Biological Station (UMBS)
The journal Ecology and Evolution published a research paper co-authored by all students in the 2024 Insights From Trees class at the University of Michigan Biological Station evaluating the abundance...
myumi.ch
May 5, 2025 at 6:14 PM
ALLIES IN THE WILD: Undergraduates in the Insights From Trees class at the UMBS are co-authors on a Webber lab pub on mite domatia! Students to join her July 1 – 31 in northern Michigan for her four-week course. Ap deadline is May 30. Apply for her 2025 course: myumi.ch/z9XX2
The University of Michigan Biological Station stewards had a successful roadside cleanup for Earth week-10 people collected 237 lbs of trash along 3.8 miles of Riggsville Road in northern Michigan.
May 5, 2025 at 6:05 PM
The University of Michigan Biological Station stewards had a successful roadside cleanup for Earth week-10 people collected 237 lbs of trash along 3.8 miles of Riggsville Road in northern Michigan.
LSA/SEAS senior wants to make environmental science accessible to all -- how cool is that? Go Jake!
May 5, 2025 at 5:43 PM
LSA/SEAS senior wants to make environmental science accessible to all -- how cool is that? Go Jake!
Congrats to Jake Downey and all of the Biological Station
alumni who graduate this weekend from UMich! Read Jake’s student success profile in the University Record, which highlights the summer he spent at the campus in northern Michigan. myumi.ch/2r3ew
alumni who graduate this weekend from UMich! Read Jake’s student success profile in the University Record, which highlights the summer he spent at the campus in northern Michigan. myumi.ch/2r3ew
LSA/SEAS senior wants to make environmental science accessible to all | The University Record
myumi.ch
May 5, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Congrats to Jake Downey and all of the Biological Station
alumni who graduate this weekend from UMich! Read Jake’s student success profile in the University Record, which highlights the summer he spent at the campus in northern Michigan. myumi.ch/2r3ew
alumni who graduate this weekend from UMich! Read Jake’s student success profile in the University Record, which highlights the summer he spent at the campus in northern Michigan. myumi.ch/2r3ew
Read the Michigan Biological Station newsletter to hear of all the research, education and fun happening in Northern MI. We'd love you to join our thriving community: mailchi.mp/umich/umbs-n...
UMBS News: Allies in the Wild
mailchi.mp
May 5, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Read the Michigan Biological Station newsletter to hear of all the research, education and fun happening in Northern MI. We'd love you to join our thriving community: mailchi.mp/umich/umbs-n...
More research from the Michigan Biological Station by Gil Borer (Ohio State University & MI UMBS researcher): Tree Hydrology Model Measures Drought Sensitivity of Different Tree Species lsa.umich.edu/umbs/news-ev...
Tree Hydrology Model Measures Drought Sensitivity of Different Tree Species | U-M LSA University of Michigan Biological Station (UMBS)
Researchers used long-term sap flow data and eddy covariance observations from a forest at the University of Michigan Biological Station to develop a model, called FETCH4, for simulating the movement ...
lsa.umich.edu
May 5, 2025 at 5:36 PM
More research from the Michigan Biological Station by Gil Borer (Ohio State University & MI UMBS researcher): Tree Hydrology Model Measures Drought Sensitivity of Different Tree Species lsa.umich.edu/umbs/news-ev...
The UMich EEB class of 2025 had a lot of wonderful things to say about their time at the Michigan Biological Station. lsa.umich.edu/eeb/news-eve...
EEB Class of 2025: Meet our graduating seniors! | U-M LSA Ecology and Evolutionary Biology (EEB)
EEB's graduating seniors share their plans for next year, their favorite EEB moment, and give some great advice for incoming undergrads!
lsa.umich.edu
May 5, 2025 at 5:33 PM
The UMich EEB class of 2025 had a lot of wonderful things to say about their time at the Michigan Biological Station. lsa.umich.edu/eeb/news-eve...
There are a lot of cool courses this spring and summer. Sign up now! Don't miss this opportunity: lsa.umich.edu/umbs/news-ev...
May 5, 2025 at 5:31 PM
There are a lot of cool courses this spring and summer. Sign up now! Don't miss this opportunity: lsa.umich.edu/umbs/news-ev...
Read all about it! Mite-y research by one of the UMBS classes taught by Dr. Marjorie Webber. Interested in publishing? There are still spots in her UMBS class this July. lsa.umich.edu/umbs/news-ev...
Undergraduate Students at U-M Biological Station Co-Author Mite-y Research Paper in Scientific Journal | U-M LSA University of Michigan Biological Station (UMBS)
The journal Ecology and Evolution published a research paper co-authored by all students in the 2024 Insights From Trees class at the University of Michigan Biological Station evaluating the abundance...
lsa.umich.edu
May 5, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Read all about it! Mite-y research by one of the UMBS classes taught by Dr. Marjorie Webber. Interested in publishing? There are still spots in her UMBS class this July. lsa.umich.edu/umbs/news-ev...
Passing though Northern MI this summer? Check out the spectacular lineup of speakers at UMBS on W nights. Lots of time for science discussion & snacks after. Don't miss the discussion (please share). lsa.umich.edu/umbs/news-ev...
University of Michigan Biological Station Invites Public to Free Summer Lectures | U-M LSA University of Michigan Biological Station (UMBS)
On Wednesdays at 7 p.m., topics include the fascinating world of fungi, how climate change affects your health, all about the Common Loon, manoomin (wild rice) restoration, and nitrogen as a driver of...
lsa.umich.edu
May 5, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Passing though Northern MI this summer? Check out the spectacular lineup of speakers at UMBS on W nights. Lots of time for science discussion & snacks after. Don't miss the discussion (please share). lsa.umich.edu/umbs/news-ev...
Sibling Success in Law and Medicine: ‘The Bio Station Shaped Our Values’. lsa.umich.edu/umbs/news-ev...
Sibling Success in Law and Medicine: ‘The Bio Station Shaped Our Values’ | U-M LSA University of Michigan Biological Station (UMBS)
Seeta Goyal is an assistant attorney general in the environmental bureau of the Illinois Attorney General’s Office. Her brother Dr. Kiran Goyal is a third-year medical resident in vascular surgery at ...
lsa.umich.edu
April 12, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Sibling Success in Law and Medicine: ‘The Bio Station Shaped Our Values’. lsa.umich.edu/umbs/news-ev...
Tree Hydrology Model Measures Drought Sensitivity of Different Tree Species at the University of Michigan Biological Station lsa.umich.edu/umbs/news-ev...
Tree Hydrology Model Measures Drought Sensitivity of Different Tree Species | U-M LSA University of Michigan Biological Station (UMBS)
Researchers used long-term sap flow data and eddy covariance observations from a forest at the University of Michigan Biological Station to develop a model, called FETCH4, for simulating the movement ...
lsa.umich.edu
April 12, 2025 at 9:58 PM
Tree Hydrology Model Measures Drought Sensitivity of Different Tree Species at the University of Michigan Biological Station lsa.umich.edu/umbs/news-ev...
This #GivingBlueday, there’s a lot to love about UMBS. One of senior Kailey Koshorek’s favorite experiences at UMBS was Mud Lake Bog: “It’s wild.” Donate (www.givecampus.com/schools/Univ...) before midnight to help support science & discovery. www.youtube.com/watch?v=17nY...
Sights and Sounds of Mud Lake Bog
YouTube video by U-M Biological Station
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March 19, 2025 at 10:54 PM
This #GivingBlueday, there’s a lot to love about UMBS. One of senior Kailey Koshorek’s favorite experiences at UMBS was Mud Lake Bog: “It’s wild.” Donate (www.givecampus.com/schools/Univ...) before midnight to help support science & discovery. www.youtube.com/watch?v=17nY...
Friends and alumni of the University of Michigan Biological Station are invited to return to the shores of Douglas Lake with their families in August 2025 for Alumni Weekend. The registration deadline is June 1. lsa.umich.edu/umbs/news-ev...
UMBS to Host Alumni Weekend Aug. 8-10 | U-M LSA University of Michigan Biological Station (UMBS)
Friends and alumni of the University of Michigan Biological Station are invited to return to the shores of Douglas Lake with their families in August 2025 for Alumni Weekend. Advance registration and ...
lsa.umich.edu
March 19, 2025 at 11:09 AM
Friends and alumni of the University of Michigan Biological Station are invited to return to the shores of Douglas Lake with their families in August 2025 for Alumni Weekend. The registration deadline is June 1. lsa.umich.edu/umbs/news-ev...
Please help support Science. Thanks to an anonymous donor, the first $6,000 in gifts tp hashtag#UMBS will be matched 1:1 TODAY providing double the support. No gift is too small for this match. lnkd.in/e_fYdFMu
March 19, 2025 at 10:56 AM
Please help support Science. Thanks to an anonymous donor, the first $6,000 in gifts tp hashtag#UMBS will be matched 1:1 TODAY providing double the support. No gift is too small for this match. lnkd.in/e_fYdFMu
Our University of Michigan Biological Station disease & ecosystems crew got together at UT to discuss our 2024 data (mouse diet, microbiome & parasite load) & to plan 2025 work. Amanda Koltz (UT), Jessica Light (TAM), Ann Cress (UT), Vanessa Ezenwa (Yale, not pictured) and me. Stay tuned
March 5, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Our University of Michigan Biological Station disease & ecosystems crew got together at UT to discuss our 2024 data (mouse diet, microbiome & parasite load) & to plan 2025 work. Amanda Koltz (UT), Jessica Light (TAM), Ann Cress (UT), Vanessa Ezenwa (Yale, not pictured) and me. Stay tuned
We love science at the University of Michigan Biological station: mailchi.mp/umich/umbs-n...
UMBS News: A Love Letter to Science
mailchi.mp
March 5, 2025 at 3:05 PM
We love science at the University of Michigan Biological station: mailchi.mp/umich/umbs-n...
Reposted by Aimee Classen
We are hiring! We have a vacancy for a 2-year postdoc in our department @niooknaw.bsky.social to work on plant and soil community dynamics in long-term experiments in natural grasslands. More info can be found here: nioo.knaw.nl/en/vacancies.... Please spread the word!
February 20, 2025 at 2:44 PM
We are hiring! We have a vacancy for a 2-year postdoc in our department @niooknaw.bsky.social to work on plant and soil community dynamics in long-term experiments in natural grasslands. More info can be found here: nioo.knaw.nl/en/vacancies.... Please spread the word!