Material in the Administrative series consists of information describing the program and location, partial executive committee meeting minutes from 1955 to 1964, discussions regarding the budget, enrollment statistics from 1909 to 1989, and the major need assessments.
The Program Review series contains records from the evaluation of the biostation program during the budget crisis in the early 1980s. There are reports on the program, correspondence, materials from the LS&A review committee, and summaries of surveys of graduate students, undergraduate students, investigators, faculty, and staff of the UMBS.
The Research series includes research done at the UMBS and by UMBS researchers at other locations. Materials include research proposals, contracts, and final reports. The major research projects are a vegetation survey of the Manitou Islands and Sleeping Bear Dunes, and a water quality study of Northern Michigan. There is also material regarding the formation of an Information Retrieval System for the UMBS library to facilitate access to records of past research.