PELLSTON, Mich. — Applications are open at the University of Michigan Biological Station for undergraduate and graduate students interested in serving as a 2024 CLEAR Fellow in northern Michigan from mid-May through July.

CLEAR stands for Community and Lakes Environmental Awareness and Research.

CLEAR Fellows intern at the Tip of the Mitt Watershed Council, an environmental nonprofit based in Petoskey, and take a summer class at UMBS, one of the nation’s largest and longest continuously operating scientific field stations.

The fellowship is an opportunity founded and funded by former UMBS students from 1977-81 with a passion for water quality. It provides tuition support, room, board, research fees and supplies at UMBS to students doing applied aquatic research along with public outreach and education — directly involving those students in the community.

Tip of the Mitt Watershed Council will provide a $15 per hour stipend for work performed for their organization (up to 40 hours per week).

Housing is provided for CLEAR Fellows at UMBS from early/mid-May until the conclusion of the summer session.

UMBS is a more than 10,000-acre research and teaching campus in operation since 1909 along Douglas Lake just south of the Mackinac Bridge in Pellston.

The Tip of the Mitt Watershed Council is dedicated to protecting lakes, streams, wetlands and groundwater in the Great Lakes basin through advocacy, innovative education, water quality monitoring, research and restoration actions.

Interested candidates should email a cover letter and resume to UMBS Research Coordinator Helen Habicht at habicht@umich.edu.

Please apply by February 14, 2024.

For more information about qualifications and responsibilities of the fellowship, go to the UMBS Student Research Opportunities website.

Read about 2023 UMBS CLEAR Fellow Indira Sankaran’s experience and watch Indira’s video.