Eastern Michigan University T he Department of Biological Sciences , in conjunction with the Kresge Environmental Education Center and Eastern Michigan University , offers annually a full program of summer field courses at Fish Lake, near Lapeer, in the southeastern lower peninsula of Michigan. The Fish Lake station is located about 62 miles from the Wayne State University campus, in Detroit, within easy travel time of cities such as Toledo, Windsor, Ann Arbor, Flint, Pontiac, and Saginaw. WSU students may commute or stay in the excellent dormitory.
Meals are available.
The station is surrounded by the 8,000-acre Lapeer State Game Area, and is close to Lake Huron. The rich, varied study sites provide exceptional opportunities for biological research and instruction. The offerings vary annually, incluiding courses ranging from vertebrate or invertebrate natural history, to entomology, to ecology, to hydrobiology, and to botany. This course work may be supplemented by individually arranged research or investigative course work, for 1 or more additional credit hours. Successive sessions may be attended for additional credit.