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	Orin is Professor of Biology and Professor of Environmental Studies at the University of Michigan-Dearborn. For the past 40 years, he has also served as the Director of the University&rsquo;s Environmental Interpretive Center and Natural Areas. His first love is Field Biology, which he continues to teach in the extensive natural areas on campus. As a university professor, Orin has had the privilege of conducting research on bird orientation, migration, and navigation at the Max Planck Institute for Animal Behavior in Bavaria, Germany, and on urban ecology at the Center for Human Ecology in the University of Edinburgh, Scotland. Currently, he is investigating floodplain ecology of the Rouge River in southeast Michigan. &nbsp;<br />
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	Orin received his undergraduate education from Calvin College, Grand Rapids, MI, which guided him throughout his graduate studies at Western Michigan University and Northwestern University as well as his teaching career. &nbsp;<br />
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	As part of his Christian witness, Orin serves on many community boards and organizations and narrates eye-opening bus and boat tours of the environmental and historical issues in Southeast Michigan to his students and community organizations. &nbsp;<br />
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	He considers it a privilege to be associated with the Institute because &ldquo;Au Sable integrates science with my Christian faith. Learning about the amazing functions and processes of the Creation is as inspirational to me as learning about amazing grace from the Bible.&rdquo;</p>
