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 connect globally. 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

Carol Shennan
cshennan@ucsc.edu
Professor, Environmental Studies, University of California – Santa Cruz
Aug. 28 – Oct. 8, 2016

Dr. Carol Shennan, Professor Environmental Studies, UC Santa Cruz will be a Visiting Sabbatical Scholar at KBS in Fall 2016. Her research focuses on questions of agricultural sustainability in the U.S. (primarily California) and Africa. Originally trained as a plant ecophysiologist (Ph.D. in Botany, University of Cambridge), she has translated her interest in the physiology of salt marsh plants and their toleration of high salinity to focus on salinity in agricultural systems and questions of agricultural sustainability more broadly.

Research in her lab at UC Santa Cruz includes nutrient cycling and disease management in high-intensity organic strawberry/vegetable annual cropping system. She is specifically interested in the development of alternatives to the use of agrochemicals, notably soil fumigants, for disease and pest control. Her lab also works on issues of livelihoods and sustainability in resource-limited systems in sub-Saharan Africa, and includes the use of farmer teams and information technology for promoting adoption of new agricultural technologies in Senegal.

At KBS she will be working on several writing projects and learning more about the LTER and other sustainable agriculture projects at MSU.

Juan Ramon Insua
insua.juan@inta.gob.ar
Assistant Professor, Animal Nutrition, College of Agricultural Science, University of Mar del Plata
March 15 – Oct. 31, 2016

Dr. Juan Insua will be working with Dr. Santiago Utsumi (Animal Science/KBS) and Dr. Bruno Basso (Geological Sciences/KBS) on their biophysical modeling of pasture ecosystems project at KBS.

Veera Norros
norrosve@msu.edu
Researcher, Finnish Environment Institute (SYKE)
Feb. 1 – Sept. 30, 2016

Dr. Veera Norros will be working on phytoplankton research in Dr. Elena Litchman’s lab.

Past Visiting Scholars

Karel Jacobs
kjcobs@csu.edu
Associate Professor and Coordinator of Secondary Education
Chicago State University, Dept. of Biology
Sept. 7 – Dec. 5, 2015

Alexey Ryabov
a.ryabov@icbm.de
Professor, Oldenburg University, Institute for Chemistry and Biology of the Marine Environment (Germany)
KBS Host Lab: Klausmeier Lab
October/November 2014

Mike Jones
jonesm30@msu.edu
Professor, Michigan State University, Dept. of Fisheries & Wildlife
KBS Host Lab:
October 2014

Mike McCarthy
mjm.kingston@gmail.com
Postdoc, The University of Texas at Austin, Marine Science Institute
KBS Host Lab: Hamilton Lab
September 2014

Kai Wirtz
kai.wirtz@hzg.de
Helmholtz-Zentrum Geesthacht (Germany)
KBS Host Lab: Klausmeier Lab
August/September 2014

Dr. Kathryn Cottingham
kathryn.cottingham@dartmouth.edu
Professor, Dartmouth University
KBS Host Lab: Gross Lab
April 2013

Bryan Foster
bfoster@ku.edu
Professor, University of Kansas
KBS Host Lab: Gross Lab
Sept. – Oct. 2013

Julio Galli
National University of Rosario (Argentina)
KBS Host Lab: Utsumi Lab
July 2014 – September 2014

Dr. Junmin Li
lijmtzc@126.com
Teacher, Taizhou University (China)
KBS Host Lab: Lau Lab
April 2011 – March 2012

Dr. Nalini Nadkarni
Professor, The University of Utah, Department of Biology
October 2012

Lea Roselli
University of Salento (Italy)
KBS Host Lab: Litchman Lab
March 2014 – August 2014

Dr. Zhigang Zhao
Associate Professor, Lanzhou University (China)
KBS Host Lab: Conner Lab

Sept. 2011 – Sept. 2012

Dr. Terenzio Zenone
Terenzio.Zenone@ua.ac.be
Adjunct Visiting Research Associate
KBS Host Lab: Robertson Lab
April 2009 – Oct. 2012