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Recent Press

USDA launches first phase of soil carbon monitoring efforts through Conservation Reserve Program Initiative (Farm Service Agency, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Oct. 12, 2021)

Bioenergy crops create local cooling that can increase climate benefit (Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center, Oct. 1, 2021)

How carbon farming can help save the Earth (Morgan Stanley Institute for Sustainable Investing, October 2021)

What does groundwater have to do with lake algal blooms? (MSUToday, Sept. 29, 2021)

Into the microbiome: Exploring the ecology of microbial communities (MSU NatSci News, Sept. 21, 2021)

Agricultural research data network increases access to historical crop data (USDA News, Sept. 8, 2021)

Learning from a ‘living fossil’ (MSUToday, Aug. 30, 2021)

MSU joins effort to promote prairie strip adoption across Midwest (Michigan Farm News, Aug. 19, 2021)

USDA looks to conservation finance to deliver more working lands conservation (U.S. Department of Agriculture, July 29, 2021)

Planning for crop water needs under changing climate conditions (Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center, March 16, 2021)

Midwest farmers can adapt to climate change through soil management (Ag Daily, March 10, 2021)

Adaptation, not irrigation recommended for Midwest corn farmers (MSUToday, March 9, 2021)

Edge of agriculture: Crop configuration and pest suppression (Mirage News, March 5, 2021)

MSU’s Elena Litchman lands prestigious award for scientific excellence in aquatic ecology (MSU NatSci News, March 4, 2021)

‘Planting green’ has advantages if done correctly (Farmer’s Exchange, Jan. 22, 2021)

Nine faculty named 2020 highly cited researchers (MSU Today, Dec. 4, 2020)

Soil opportunities: Basso and Gore on regenerative farming as climate solution (MSU NatSci Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Nov. 3, 2020)

Kellogg LTER researchers play key role in new biology integration institute (NSF Long-term Ecological Research Network, Oct. 9, 2020)

Synchronizing drought tolerance on, and underneath, the farm (MSU NatSci News, Sept. 14, 2020)

No-till farming improves crop yields, study finds (Petoskey News, Sept. 9, 2020)

No-till farming improves crop yields, study finds (Spartan Newsroom, Sept. 4, 2020)

NSF-funded project to track genetic ‘adapt or die’ responses to environmental change (MSU NatSci News, Aug. 31, 2020)

MSU joins $20 million AI initiative for the future of sustainable agriculture (MSU NatSci News, Aug. 27, 2020)

MSU study finds no-till farming yields long-term economic benefits (Great Lakes Echo, Aug. 7, 2020)

Under climate change, good things come to bugs who wait (MSU NatSci News, Aug. 6, 2020)

MSU study finds no-till farming yields long-term economic benefits (WKAR Public Media, July 31, 2020)

MSU researcher earns grant to study effects of droughts (MSUToday, July 29, 2020)

For more than three decades, no-till yields increased year-after-year when compared to yields from tilled ground in a corn, soybean and wheat rotation (No Till Farmer, July 22, 2020)

‘Corn sweat’ may exacerbate heat impact in Midwest this weekend (Washington Post, July 15, 2020)

‘We have one Earth’: Researchers Work To Boost Farm Production Without Causing More Harm (NPR, June 19, 2020)

The Zillow app of agricultural regeneration (MSU NatSci News, April 30, 2020)

Designing a system for broadcast interseeding (Morning AgClips, April 28, 2020)

Welcome to the new world of digital agriculture (Forbes, April 22, 2020)

Digital agriculture paves the road to agricultural sustainability (MSUToday, April 22, 2020)

Digital agriculture to design sustainable agricultural systems (Nature, April 16, 2020)

Biofuels from grass ‘mitigates global warming,’ researchers reveal (Biofuels International, March 16, 2020)

Big data helps farmers adapt to climate variability (MSUToday, Feb. 27, 2020)

Decarbonizing your ride for a more stable climate (MSU AgBioResearch News, Feb. 24, 2020)

Michigan State University and Mississippi State University graduate students receive 2020 AIBS Emerging Public Policy Leadership Awards (American Institute of Biological Sciences, Feb. 19, 2020)

Book review of “The Last Butterflies :A Scientist’s Quest to Save a Rare and Vanishing Creature” (Oryx, Feb. 11, 2020)

Marine to Myrmecologist: One Entomologist’s Journey to Understand and Conserve Native Biodiversity (Entomology Today, Jan. 31, 2020)

Satellite and yield data identify unprofitable acres (Future Farming, Jan. 23, 2020)

Trinidad’s guppy-filled stream provide natural lab for genetic rescue research (MSUToday, Jan. 6, 2020)

Going with the flow: Trinidad’s guppy-filled stream provide natural lab for genetic rescue research (MSU NatSci News, Jan. 6, 2020)

New report says six MSU AgBioResearch scientists among most highly cited (MSU AgBioResearch News, Dec. 3, 2019)

“Never Home Alone” and “The Last Butterflies” in longlist for 2020 AAAS award (Applied Ecology News, Oct. 28, 2019)

How the once-common Poweshiek skipperling became Michigan’s most endangered species (Michigan Radio’s Stateside, Oct. 18, 2019)

Cover crops could help Michigan farmers and the environment (Michigan Radio’s Stateside, Oct. 4, 2019)

Technology grows on farmers, producers (Greater Lansing Business Monthly, Sept. 30, 2019)

New study finds connected habitats see increases in biodiversity (Wisconsin Public Radio, Sept. 27, 2019)

Small strips of nature in just the right places can keep plants from going extinct (Los Angeles Times, Sept. 27, 2019)

Connecting fractured habitats has long-lasting ecological benefits, study finds (Washington Post, Sept. 26, 2019)

Connecting our dwindling natural habitats could help preserve plant diversity (Science News, Sept. 26, 2019)

Habitat corridors increase plant diversity over decades (AAAS, Sept. 26, 2019)

The last butterflies? (Scientific American, Sept. 19, 2019)

Global change is triggering an identity switch in grasslands (MSUToday, Sept. 5, 2019)

MSU leads $2 million grant on outdoor science learning (MSUToday, Aug. 23 ,2019)

Book review: “The Last Butterflies: A Scientist’s Quest to Save a Rare and Vanishing Creature” (Michigan Radio’s Stateside, Aug. 8, 2019, review at 37:47)

Scientists discover new mechanism for how soils store carbon (NSF Research News, July 30, 2019)

Soil pore structure is key to carbon storage (Science Daily, July 26, 2019)

New paper points to soil pore structure as key to carbon storage (MSUToday, July 23, 2019)

Understanding farmer attitudes can help address water quality issues (LTER Network, July 22, 2019)

Butterflies are disappearing in Ohio. Here’s what that means for insects everywhere (PBS News Hour, July 9, 2019)

Earlier spring favors invasive plants (Forbes. July 17, 2019)

West Southwest: Searching for the last butterflies (WMUK FM, July 7, 2019)

Boosting genetic diversity may save vanishing animal populations. But it may also backfire. (Science. July 16, 2019)

The butterfly effect: The race to save butterflies before it’s too late (Sierra Magazine, July 7, 2019)

Algae blooms fed by farm flooding add to Midwest’s climate woes (Inside Climate News. June 26, 2019)

New book delves into the lives of the world’s rarest butterflies (MSU CANR News. June 19, 2019)

Life’s innovations, the enigma of gravity, and how to feed 8 billion: Books in brief (Nature, June 14, 2019)

Shifting landscape: Native plant species may be at greater risk from climate change than non-natives (MSU NatSci News. May 31, 2019)

Before our very eyes: Species rarity and extinction in Michigan’s Kalamazoo County (MSU NatSci News. May 6, 2019)

NatSci graduate students win prestigious fellowship (MSU Today. April 30, 2019)

Solving the mystery of fertilizer loss from Midwest cropland (MSU Today. April 15, 2019)

Looking for the right conditions for bees to flourish (Farm Progress. March 14, 2019)

Carrying the LTER torch forward (AgBio Futures. January 1, 2019)

Studying the impact of diversity in all forms (AgBio Futures. January 1, 2019)

Texas A&M team proposes using research stations across U.S. for public STEM education (AgriLife Today. October 10, 2018)

MSU aquatic ecologist lands grant to study phytoplankton traits (MSU NatSci News. October 7, 2018)

Fog is full of microbes (The Atlantic. August 28, 2018)

Revealing how bacteria, grasses fix nitrogen (WSU Insider. August 8, 2018)

Researchers explore diversity as new weapon against crop pests (MSU Today. July 24, 2018)

Hippo waste causes fish kills in Africa’s Mara River (Eureka Alert. May, 2018).

Discovering the growing costs of a growing epidemic in the U.S. dairy industry (Engaged Scholar. February, 2018).

Bovine leukemia virus: Lost milk and hidden costs (Hoard’s Dairyman via MSU Extension. November 15, 2017).

MSU names five Foundation Professors, including KBS/MSU Professor Bruno Basso (MSU Today. September 29, 2017).

Three osprey chicks now sporting GPS satellite backpacks (Michigan Department of Natural Resources Bulletin. August 24, 2017)

Cellulosic biofuels can benefit the environment if managed correctly (MSU Today. June 30, 2017)

$2 million NSF grant awarded to predict future viability of phytoplankton (MSU Today. June 14, 2017)

Steve Hamilton named inaugural Society for Freshwater Science fellow (MSU Today. May 25, 2017)

Farming with drones hones in on drier zones (WKAR Radio. March 22, 2017)

KBS and MSU Foundation Professor of Integrative Biology Elena Litchman wins prestigious Excellence Professorship award (MSU College of Natural Science. March 7, 2017)

Long-term Ecological Research team at the MSU’s Kellogg Biological Station addresses gap between research and practice in sustainable agriculture (MSU Today. January 18, 2017)

Spartan barley grown at the KBS on tap (MSU Extension. October 18, 2016)

KBS Ph.D. Student Chad Zirbel awarded the new Graduate Research Internship Program (GRIP) Fellowship from NSF (MSU Dept. of Plant Biology. June 27, 2016)

As genetically modified food fight heats up, Michigan expert sheds light on issues (MLive. June 21, 2016)

One of ecology’s oldest puzzles: Why does diversity cluster near the equator? (Christian Science Monitor. June 14, 2016)

Research conducted at KBS’s GLBRC indicate fertilizer use could reduce climate benefit of cellulosic biofuels (MSU Today. June 2, 2016)

MSU/KBS ecologist Stephen Hamilton on the Kalamazoo River post-oil spill (WMUK. March 21, 2016)

Craft breweries bet on sustainability (mibiz.com. March 2016)

Internship Spotlight: William Davie (MSU College of Natural Science. November 2015)

Data Nuggets are golden: MSU awarded $1 million grant to study science education project (MSU Today. October 21, 2015)

Undergraduates at Kellogg Biological Station showcase their summer research (MSU Today. July 21, 2015)

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