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Research Sites

Data sets

Title Core areas
Douglas Lake Profiles 1913-2016 Aquatic
UMBS 2015 LiDAR GIS Data
Taxa of northern Michigan (northern lower and eastern upper peninsulas) Population (Plants), Population (Animals)
State protected environmental areas in the Osborne Preserve GIS Data
Post-logging land use and modifications GIS Data

Data Management at UMBS

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Current Research

Project Title Investigators Funding agency
Establishing a Network of Forest Inventory Plots across U. Michigan Properties to Assess and Inform About Forest Performance Under Global Change Ines Ibanez, Jordon Tourville McIntire-Stennis Cooperative Forestry Research Program-USDA
Subterranean Storage Features Katie Fredrick
Acoustic behavior of the parasitoid fly, Emblemasoma auditrix and its host Okanagana rimosa (Homoptera) Reinhard Lakes-Harlan
Population demography and plant-pollinator interactions of a federally threatened thistle, Cirsium pitcheri Erin Elizabeth Fegley, Claudia Jolls
Robot Manipulation for Unstructured Environments

Recent Publications

  1. Bryan AM, Cheng SJ, Ashworth K, Guenther AB, Hardiman BS, Bohrer G, et al. Forest-atmosphere BVOC exchange in diverse and structurally complex canopies: 1-D modeling of a mid-successional forest in northern Michigan. Atmospheric Environment. In Press.
  2. Jurcak AM, Gauthier SJ, Moore PA. The Effects of Biodiesel and Crude Oil on the Foraging Behavior of Rusty Crayfish, Orconectes rusticus. Archives of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology. In Press;69(4):557-565.
  3. Neal AE, Moore PA. Mimicking natural systems: Changes in behavior as a result of dynamic exposure to naproxen. Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety. 2017;135:347-357.
  4. Rutter JE. Bird Friendly Beaches: Evaluating dog and human interactions with Great Lakes piping plovers (Charadrius melodus) and other shorebirds. Vol M.S. University of Minnesota; 2016.
  5. Howey MC, Sullivan FB, Tallant J, Kopple RV, Palace MW. Detecting Precontact Anthropogenic Microtopographic Features in a Forested Landscape with Lidar: A Case Study from the Upper Great Lakes Region, AD 1000-1600. PLOS ONE. 2016;11(9):e0162062.

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Real-time Conditions on Douglas Lake

Data from the Douglas Lake Buoy is now available for download via the Marine Hydrodynamics Laboratory.

Additional external data for UMBS is also available!

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