I arrived at KBS during the heat of finals season on my campus. I had just taken my in-class exams and moved my belongings out of my dorm before arriving at KBS. I was looking forward to a summer of new experiences and that is exactly what ... Read More

 I spent the summer of 2017 at the Kellogg Biological Station (KBS) studying climate change and predation among aquatic organisms. This 11-week research experience was as eventful and influential as it could’ve been. It cemented my ... Read More

How did I get here? This thought rattled through the back of my mind as I performed phosphorus readings on the spectrophotometer. Me, a paleontologist, working with microscopic algae and being reunited with the machinery that haunted ... Read More

I gained the opportunity to work at KBS because of a friend who had worked at KBS last summer and really enjoyed it. It even inspired her to change her major, and I decided to apply because of what she told me! I am a laboratory animal ... Read More

Who knew my summer in Michigan would include laying belly-flopped in a stream, yelling in frustration over the two-inch fish that had just bolted off, as my waders filled with cold water? Maybe I should back up. My name is Daniel Oliveira, ... Read More

“What research would you propose?” A few minutes into our conversation, a phone interview for the summer Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) internship I’d applied for at Kellogg Biological Station, we’d moved past the questions I ... Read More

This past spring I co-taught an upper-level MSU undergraduate class on Global Change Biology with fellow KBS Assistant Professor, Dr. Sarah Evans. Throughout the semester we discovered no shortage of urgent headlines to illustrate the wide ... Read More