Robertson, Sprunger elected 2024 fellows by the Ecological Society of America

Two W.K. Kellogg Biological Station faculty members have been named 2024 fellows by the Ecological Society of America, or ESA. G. Philip Robertson and Christine D. Sprunger were named as two of ESA’s 2024 cohort of 19 fellows and early-career fellows.

Phil Robertson

Robertson, a University Distinguished Professor in Michigan State University’s Department of Plant, Soil and Microbial Sciences, was named an ESA Fellow. His primary research interests are in agricultural ecology, with a focus on nitrogen and carbon dynamics, greenhouse gas fluxes and land management solutions to climate change. He served as director of the KBS Long-Term Ecological Research—LTER—site until 2016, and he previously chaired the LTER Network. Robertson is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the Soil Science Society of America, a Clarivate Highly Cited Researcher and has served on numerous national and international advisory and editorial boards and committees. He received his Ph.D. in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology from Indiana University.

Christine Sprunger

Sprunger, an assistant professor of soil health in Michigan State University’s Department of Plant, Soil and Microbial Sciences and the Plant Resilience Institute. Her research focuses on the intersection of agriculture and the environment, where she investigates how various agricultural management practices impact soil health and ecosystem services. In addition, she is interested in understanding how nematode communities can serve as key bioindicators, and she also explores how climate change impacts rhizosphere dynamics and soil food webs. She holds a Ph.D. in crop and soil sciences and ecology, evolutionary biology and behavior from MSU and was a National Science Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow at Columbia University.

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