The University of Michigan Biological Station (UMBS) was founded in 1909.
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Douglas Lake Ice Cover at the University of Michigan Biological Station, Pellston, MI 1931 to 2024
This dataset represent the ice on and ice off dates for Douglas Lake in Pellston, Michigan. The first observations are from the 1930s and were intermittently documented until the mid 1970s. The observations are complete since then to current.
University of Michigan Biological Station Weather Observations 1980 to Present
This data set includes daily year-round weather measurements and observations recorded at the University of Michigan Biological Station (UMBS) from 1980-present. Parameters include maximum and minimum temperatures, precipitation, snowfall,...
Annual tree growth for Red and Sugar Maples in six forest plots distributed around Ann Arbor, MI and around the University of Michigan Biological Station (UMBS), 1999 to 2022
The dataset contains the annual growth, in mm, of over 200 red and sugar maple trees. All trees are located in established study sites in the vicinity of Ann Arbor or UMBS.
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Forest tree, woody debris, and soil inventory data from long-term research plots at the University of Michigan Biological Station (LTREB)
Disturbances to forests, such as logging or wildfires, typically lead to large losses of carbon and nutrients from both the plants and soils of the ecosystem. Virtually all forests are in some state of recovery from such disturbances, whether...
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UMBS National Atmospheric Deposition Program National Trends Network - Precipitation and Chemistry 1979 - 2022
Sites predominantly are located away from urban areas and point sources of pollution. Each site has a precipitation chemistry collector and gage. The automated collector ensures that the sample is exposed only during precipitation (wet-only-...
Long-term Summer Temperature and Precipitation Records
Monthly temperature and precipitation data collected at the University of Michigan Biological Station (UMBS) beginning in 1912. Values are aggregated into monthly means, maximums, minimums and totals.
Bioblitz Data from Douglas Lake
Data were collected by a team of researchers during the UMBS bioblitz, conducted on 22 July 2023. The sampling design for aquatic macrophytes and diatoms were intended to be easily repeatable with similar effort (two teams, each with a pontoon)...
UMBS Aspen Associations - Plant Ecology course collected tree counts, stump counts, and ground flora counts from 1939 to 1954
Starting in the summer of 1928, FC Gates led systematic measurements of forest vegetation with the Plant Ecology class until 1954. Some of the measurements were taken in randomly located quadrants within specific stands and taken in the same area...
UMBS 2017 Prescribed Burn Single-Particle Mass Spectra, October 2017
This dataset corresponds to 5,500 single-particle, dual-polarity mass spectra of biomass burning particles measured from a mobile laboratory during the 2017 prescribed burn at the University of Michigan Biological Station near Pellston, Michigan...