There's a new venture in town in the farm-to-table movement. In January 2017, Gull Lake High School began offering specialty burgers made from grass-fed beef produced at the KBS Pasture Dairy Center as part of their lunch menu. The ... Read More
Celebrating George Lauff’s 90th birthday
This year, we are celebrating 90 years since W.K. Kellogg donated the first lands that became KBS, but this week, we are also celebrating George Lauff’s 90th birthday. Lauff was the director of KBS from 1964 until he retired in 1989, and ... Read More
KBS alumni and professors publish in Global Change Biology
Alumni from KBS's Klausmeier-Litchman lab recently published in Global Change Biology on the effects of temperature-nutrient interactions on phytoplankton's sensistivity to warming. The paper was authored by graduate alumni Mridul Thomas ... Read More
Boldness in bass: Personality affects juvenile survival and adult reproductive success
Nick Ballew, Kim Scribner, and Gary Mittelbach have published a new manuscript in the American Naturalist. The publication is based on a study done by Nick as part of his Doctoral Dissertation in Zoology (2014) which investigated the ... Read More
Mittelbach receives MSU’s William J. Beal Outstanding Faculty Award
Congratulations to KBS faculty member Gary Mittelbach on receiving the William J. Beal Outstanding Faculty Award on February 7, 2017. Mittelbach is an internationally recognized ecologist whose research has contributed novel and lasting ... Read More
Klausmeier, Litchman named Foundation Professors
KBS professors Dr. Christopher Klausmeier and Dr. Elena Litchman have both been named MSU Foundation Professors, an honor given to "outstanding faculty who demonstrate excellence in research and teaching, while enhancing the prominence of ... Read More
Are we making selfish microbes?
Some bacteria become less cooperative with their plant hosts under long-term nutrient additions, finds new research by Jen Lau, an ecologist at the Kellogg Biological Station (KBS) LTER, and her collaborator Katy Heath at the University of ... Read More
Fitzpatrick appointed as assistant professor
"I’ve always told people that my dream would be to have a lab based at a field station," said Dr. Sarah Fitzpatrick. Starting January 1, 2017, her dream is becoming reality as her appointment begins as an Assistant Professor at KBS and in ... Read More
Mittelbach receives Outstanding Faculty Award
The College of Natural Sciences (NatSci) recognized 25 faculty and staff members at the annual award ceremony on November 11, among them KBS professor Dr. Gary Mittelbach. Mittelbach, a faculty member in the department of Integrative ... Read More
Sharing KBS climate change research in Qatar
KBS researchers are well known in our local community for expertise on climate change, but recently, several KBSers also had the opportunity to share their research globally. 2016 KBS undergraduate students Aleah Dungee and Kathryn ... Read More
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