CMU Biological Station

CMU Biological Station
Support the CMU Biological Station
Gifts to the CMU Biological Station help sustain a vital place for learning, discovery, and environmental stewardship. Donors may choose from several giving options based on how they would like their support to be used.
Biological Station Endowment
The Biological Station Endowment provides ongoing support for the long-term needs of the CMU Biological Station, helping ensure its continued success for future generations.
Biological Station Research Endowment
The Biological Station Research Endowment supports research activities at the station, advancing scientific inquiry and expanding opportunities for discovery.
Friends of the CMU Biological Station
The Friends of the CMU Biological Station fund supports current programs, student experiences, and special initiatives, allowing for immediate and flexible use where it is needed most.
How to Give
To make a gift, click the Support link and enter the name of the fund you wish to support in the search bar:
Biological Station Endowment
Biological Station Research Endowment
Friends of the CMU Biological Station
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CMU Biological Station
The CMU Biological Station on Beaver Island
The original place-based education
Dive into the summer season with courses, workshops, research opportunities and community events – all part of CMU’s field station on beautiful Beaver Island. We offer a variety of field-based courses that take advantage of our faculty expertise, research facilities and unique location in northern Lake Michigan.  Along with college students, researchers, K-12 groups and other professionals, you can learn, work and play in the clear waters around Beaver Island.
Nestled along the curving beaches of Sand Bay, CMU’s field station looks east across northern Lake Michigan, with access to the rest of the Beaver Island Archipelago as well as the inland lakes, marshes and bogs of Beaver Island itself.  Offering courses and space for workshops, research, and meetings since the summer of 1960, the field station offers a unique educational location to students and others for experiencing a variety of landscapes and waterways, and the great variety of life teeming in these. In its 58 square miles, Beaver Island offers a striking array of biodiversity, with distinct ecosystems available for exploration and education, as well as recreation.
The station also provides a prime location for groups to meet, especially those interested in the natural beauty of the area and the historical background of the Native and immigrant communities in northern Michigan.
Want to
take a class
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non-credit workshop
Interested in visiting the station for
research
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Work Hard, Play Hard, CMU Biological Station on Beaver Island
CMU Biological Station on Beaver Island
Kevin Pangle
Director
Email:
pangl1k@cmich.edu
Alexander Searfoss
Associate Director
Email:
searf1ar@cmich.edu
CMUBS Address
P.O.Box 206
Beaver Island, MI 49782
College of Science and Engineering
Engineering and Technology Building 200
Mount Pleasant, MI 48859
Email:
se@cmich.edu
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