Visiting Scholars

At KBS we believe in partnerships. Collaboration is often the best way to achieve lasting impact. Getting the best results and building for the future is more important to us than getting all the credit.

We are globally networked, with decades of experience making a difference in communities at home and around the world in ways that advance us all.

Current Visiting Scholars

Lars Brudvig
Associate Professor, MSU – Dept. of Plant Biology
Host Lab: Gross
August 2018 – May 2019

Lars is a plant community ecologist interested in the consequences of anthropogenic change for plant biodiversity and its restoration. His research seeks to bridge basic and applied ecology through experiments and broad-scale surveys, to evaluate mechanisms underlying plant community patterns and how this can be translated to better restoration and land management. Much of his work at MSU has been on grasslands and restoration of native prairies. He has established several large-scale experimental studies of grassland restoration at KBS and led the establishment of KBS as a site in the Nutrient Network (NutNet). He is spending part of his sabbatical at KBS and will be focused on a synthesis of prairie restoration outcomes across the central United States, collaborating with scientists and restoration practitioners across this region.

Emma Rosi
Aquatic Ecologist, Cary Institute for Ecosystem Studies
Host Lab: Hamilton
Nov. 1, 2017 – Dec. 31, 2018

Dr. Rosi’s research focuses on how human activities affect aquatic life and water quality in diverse ecosystems around the world. She has conducted research on ecosystem function, nutrient cycling and food webs in forests of the northeast U.S., urban ecosystems in Baltimore, and rivers of the Maasai Mara Reserve in Kenya. She has also conducted groundbreaking research on how pharmaceutical contaminants affect aquatic ecosystems. Dr. Rosi has a strong interest in using science to inform stewardship of freshwater resources and often speaks to the public and policymakers on these issues. At KBS she is writing and working with Dr. Stephen Hamilton on research projects focusing on impacts of dam construction in the Amazon, biogeochemistry of hippo pools in Africa, and effects of microplastics and drugs on stream food webs.

Past Visiting Scholars