MSU’s Kellogg Biological Station Assistant professor Dr. Sarah Fitzpatrick and PhD student Kyle Jaynes were recently awarded a grant through the MSU Genomics Gore facility and Illumina® partnership. This grant allows them to investigate ... Read More
Nick Haddad shares his search for the rarest butterflies and the future of butterfly conservation
As KBS was looking for someone to lead its Long-Term Ecological Research (LTER) projects, Nick Haddad saw it as a perfect opportunity to continue the research that has defined his career. Haddad arrived at KBS in 2017 and on March 25th will ... Read More
SLAM: Scientists Love Acronyms, Man
KBS 2018 undergraduate summer researcher Emily Lindback is a junior at Franklin and Marshall College. She wrote about her Research Experiences for Undergraduates project working with mentor and LTER researcher ... Read More
Volunteering at KBS can make your heart soar!
Did you know that Americans first volunteered in 1736, when Benjamin Franklin organized the “Bucket Brigade” and established the colonies’ first volunteer firehouse? Back then, people were likely motivated to protect their homes from ... Read More
Society of Ecological Restoration awards research medal to KBS alum
Congratulations to KBS alum Emily Grman for being recognized by the Society of Ecology Restoration with the Bradshaw Medal for outstanding publications in Restoration Ecology. The award was presented for the Restoration Ecology paper ... Read More
Ally Brown: My summer as an Undergraduate Research Apprentice at KBS
Kellogg Biological Station (KBS) is an extension of MSU campus and a hub for research relating to agriculture and ecology. Not many undergraduates know about KBS or are aware that they have the opportunity to spend the summer there. However ... Read More
The carbon footprint of irrigation
A paper by former KBS graduate student Bonnie McGill, along with Steve Hamilton, Neville Millar, and G. Philip (Phil) Robertson, was recently published in Global Change Biology. The study focused on how irrigation affects greenhouse ... Read More
A change of scenery: From community college to climate change
Kellogg Biological Station (KBS) 2018 undergraduate summer researcher, Jessica Waters, left MiraCosta College in California for a summer at KBS. She wrote about her KBS Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) project working with ... Read More
90 Years: Then and Now
In 2017-2018 we marked 90 years since W.K. Kellogg donated the lands that would become the Kellogg Farm and Dairy and Kellogg Bird Sanctuary, and construction of the Manor House was completed. These events began KBS's legacy of ... Read More
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