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Aimee Classen @aclassen.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

Help us get a UM match! I just gave a match in honor of previous directors and how their vision helped make UMBS the incredible place it is today. Help the next generation of learners and scientists thrive: www.givecampus.com/schools/Univ...

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Aimee Classen @aclassen.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

We still have slots in summer courses. Science AND humanities courses. Come join our incredible community.

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Aimee Classen @aclassen.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

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.

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Aimee Classen @aclassen.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

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

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Aimee Classen @aclassen.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

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

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Aimee Classen @aclassen.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

Boy it is cold in Ann Arbor today. A few UM Biological Station pictures to remind me of warmer days ahead.

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Aimee Classen @aclassen.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

We’ve started working on Bracken Fern in the lab, which is a dominant understory plant in northern MI. Surprising to see it still standing with over a foot of snow.

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Aimee Classen @aclassen.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

Sending love from Douglas Lake on Valentine’s Day! We have just over a foot of snow on the ground at the research and teaching campus in Pellston.

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Aimee Classen @aclassen.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

Lots of snow and snow-digging to find our nutrient monitoring soil probes — Winter research at the University of Michigan Biological Station. Our plots near Ann Arbor were frozen solid and we couldn’t remove the probes. The snow in Pellston insulates the soil, so we easily removed the probes.

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Aimee Classen @aclassen.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

please share: We seek a postdoctoral researcher to join a collaborative team of ecologists in studying the integrated nature of forest functions that are critical for productivity, water and energy usage, and nutrient cycling.

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Aimee Classen @aclassen.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

From podcasts and poetry to painting and photography, explore recent work by artists inspired by their time embedded at the University of Michigan Biological Station. lsa.umich.edu/umbs/news-ev... Featured #art: "Cedar Trees at Narnia - above and below" by Leslie Sobel. ©2024

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Aimee Classen @aclassen.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

Please share: list of the University of Michigan Biological station 'skills' classes. Encourage students to apply -- we have lots of scholarship funds for students from all Universities/colleges.

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Aimee Classen @aclassen.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

Students, are you looking to take field-based courses—including humanities—this spring or summer? The UMich Biological Station welcomes all majors from universities around the world to join our campus and dive into a life-changing experience. Apply today! lsa.umich.edu/umbs/news-ev...

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Aimee Classen @aclassen.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

We even have parades… and don’t get me started on the 13,000 acre property for research or the fact that we are situated on a beautiful lake.

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Aimee Classen @aclassen.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

We have loads of cool kids - and a kids science camp for researcher, staff and student kids!

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Aimee Classen @aclassen.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

Engaging research community from Unis all over the world.

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Aimee Classen @aclassen.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

Our biological station has incredible staff

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Aimee Classen @aclassen.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

To encourage conducting research at UMBS in northern MI - we are a dark sky area and the nights are beautiful

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Aimee Classen @aclassen.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

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.

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Aimee Classen @aclassen.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

Check out the AMAZING UM undergrads working on ecosystem ecology at AGU this week. Peter's posters tomorrow. Anna was Monday & Kate's today.

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Aimee Classen @aclassen.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

Back in the day a the University of Michigan Biological Station

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Aimee Classen @aclassen.bsky.social · 21/10/2024

Filed work at the University of Michigan Biological Station - exploring changing winter seasons

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Aimee Classen @aclassen.bsky.social · 21/10/2024

Fall in northern MI - my favorite season

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Aimee Classen @aclassen.bsky.social · 16/10/2024

Vision from the University of Michigan Biological Station taken by PhD student Brenda Hernandez

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Aimee Classen @aclassen.bsky.social · 05/08/2024

University of Michigan Biological Station meander. Love this place.

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Aimee Classen @aclassen.bsky.social · 01/04/2024

Please Share: Have a student in your class who would benefit from field-based ecology & evolution courses? Encourage them to take at class this spring or summer at UMBS. We have funding for out of state students & incredible course offerings.

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Aimee Classen @aclassen.bsky.social · 11/02/2024

Wait - here is the MI pizza before and after baking

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Aimee Classen @aclassen.bsky.social · 11/02/2024

The University of Michigan Biological Station staff making homemade pizza at Zingermans Bake House on Thursday. Lots of bonding over ravioli sealing.

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Aimee Classen @aclassen.bsky.social · 11/02/2024

Making pizzas at our lab retreat @UMBS. Too little snow to get out for a ski, but the cozy fire in the dorm lounge has been great. I forgot the picture of the MI shaped pizza...

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Aimee Classen @aclassen.bsky.social · 09/02/2024

Please share classes @UMBS courses in spring or summer terms with your students. It's an incredible experience & we have scholarship funds for UM and Non-UM students.

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Aimee Classen @aclassen.bsky.social · 09/02/2024

UMBS is hiring a research technician for the 2024 field season. Position includes data collection in northern Michigan forests and meteorological fieldwork on Douglas Lake and Lake Superior. Full list of duties, required qualifications and how to apply: myumi.ch/3Qe5A

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Aimee Classen @aclassen.bsky.social · 10/12/2023

My Aunt as latched on to the idea my group likes fungi. She sends me all of the mushroom themed things she sees.... Pretty fun to receive her packages - as you never know what you will fund.

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