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Join the University of Michigan Biological Station in Pellston, Michigan as they welcome Pettingill Lecture in Natural History with Vanessa Ezenwa, Yale University on June 14th at 7 PM. As part of the 2023 Summer Lecture Series, Vanessa Ezenwa, a professor of ecology and evolutionary biology at Yale University and an American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) fellow, will give the Pettingill Lecture in Natural History at the University of Michigan Biological Station, an 11,000-acre research and teaching campus just south of the Mackinac Bridge on Douglas Lake in Pellston. Students, faculty, and researchers from around the globe have studied and monitored the impact of environmental changes on northern Michigan ecosystems for 114 years at the field station. Ezenwa studies the ecology and evolution of infectious diseases in wild animal populations, such as deer, gazelle, and buffalo. Her lab work explores interesting questions such as whether group living and migration increase or decrease the negative effects of parasites in the wild.

Join the University of Michigan Biological Station in Pellston, Michigan for their Summer Lecture Series: Artist in the Wilderness, Leslie Sobel. Sobel, an environmental artist from Ann Arbor, is an artist in residence in June at the University of Michigan Biological Station, an 11,000-acre research and teaching campus just south of the Mackinac Bridge on Douglas Lake in Pellston. Sobel connects climate, water, and data through art. As part of the field station’s 2023 Summer Lecture Series, she will give a free, public talk titled “Artist in the Wilderness: Field Work and Art Making.” Students, faculty, and researchers from around the globe have studied and monitored the impact of environmental changes on northern Michigan ecosystems for 114 years at the U-M Biological Station.

As part of the 2023 Summer Lecture Series, Ross Ellet, a meteorologist at the ABC affiliate in Toledo, Ohio, and a space weather expert will discuss geomagnetic storms, aurora borealis and how to best photograph the Northern Lights, even if you only have an iPhone, at the University of Michigan Biological Station, an 11,000-acre research and teaching campus just south of the Mackinac Bridge on Douglas Lake. Ellet produces a weekly segment called “Spacing Out” that focuses on night sky highlights and publishes a weekly Great Lakes aurora forecast each Thursday. An aurora chaser, Ross has traveled to the Arctic of Alaska and a variety of locations in northern Michigan, southern Canada, and northern Manitoba to photograph the Northern Lights.

Photo courtesy of Ross Ellet

As part of the University of Michigan Biological Station’s 2023 Summer Lecture Series, Robin Clark, an assistant professor at Lake Superior State University, will give a free, public talk titled “Weaving Anishinaabe and Western Sciences for Long-term Giizhik Relations: Process and Patterns.” Clark plans to talk about northern white cedar trees, or “Giizhik,” their projected decline, and Indigenous knowledge and practices that can inform forest management and growth. The U-M Biological Station is an 11,000-acre research and teaching campus just south of the Mackinac Bridge on Douglas Lake in Pellston. Students, faculty, and researchers from around the globe have studied and monitored the impact of environmental changes on northern Michigan ecosystems for 114 years at the field station.

Join the University of Michigan Biological Station in Pellston, Michigan for their Summer Lecture Series: Slow Birding on July 5th at 7 PM. Joan Strassmann, an evolutionary biologist, the Charles Rebstock Professor of Biology at Washington University in St. Louis, member of the National Academy of Sciences, and author of “Slow Birding: The Art and Science of Enjoying Birds in Your Own Backyard,” will give the Hann Endowed Lecture in Ornithology at the University of Michigan Biological Station, an 11,000-acre research and teaching campus just south of the Mackinac Bridge on Douglas Lake in Pellston. As part of the 2023 Summer Lecture Series, Strassman will explain the fascinating world of common, everyday birds, such as bluejays, cardinals, robins, and sparrows. Students, faculty, and researchers from around the globe have studied and monitored the impact of environmental changes on northern Michigan ecosystems for 114 years at the field station.