Other field stations operate only during the summer. A few offer courses during the regular academic year. EEC students are strongly encouraged to consider spending a summer at a field station. Almost all courses offered at field stations have a strong field component or are entirely taught in the field, so it is an excellent opportunity to meet your field course requirement and to acquire more field experience than is available from courses offered by UT in Austin. Field stations offer opportunities to take courses not taught by UT in Austin, especially if you are interested in marine biology or in the plants and animals of regions other than central Texas.
Many field stations offer opportunities for undergraduates to be involved in research.
While most courses taught at university field stations will be given transfer credit by UT without any problem, it is strongly advised that you check with the Advising Office before you register, to make sure that a particular course will be accepted and to find out which, if any, requirements the course will meet. This is especially true if the field station is not affiliated with a university. Most US field stations and many foreign ones, both terrestrial and marine, are listed on the Web site of the Organization of Biological Field Stations . The University of Michigan Biological Station at Douglas Lake, at the northern tip of the Lower Peninsula of Michigan. The Station has beech-maple forests, spruce forests, bogs, marshes, pine barrens, lakes, rivers, and streams.