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Doug Schemske sits on a fishing boat holding a pair of smallies.

Celebrating Schemske’s election to National Academy of Sciences

05.23.17

We are proud to announce that KBS professor emeritus Doug Schemske (pictured at right) was recently elected to the National Academy of Sciences. "This is the highest recognition that an American scientist can receive, and no one deserves ... Read More

Middle & high school teachers participate in a learning activity about greenhouse gases

K-12 teachers study ecology and evolution education at KBS

04.20.17

Grass-fed cars, electric fish, and marbles, anyone? Using those tools, on April 18, local K-12 teachers came to KBS for a day of professional development (PD) and learned about ecology and evolution education. Teachers participated from 16 ... Read More

Kellogg Farm grass-fed beef feeds Gull Lake High School

03.30.17

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

03.20.17

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

03.13.17

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

03.06.17

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

Gary Mittelbach at the Pond Lab research site at KBS

Mittelbach receives MSU’s William J. Beal Outstanding Faculty Award

02.09.17

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

Chris Klausmeier and Elena Litchman

Klausmeier, Litchman named Foundation Professors

01.12.17

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?

01.05.17

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

Dr. Sarah Fitzpatrick traveled to Peru earlier this year

Fitzpatrick appointed as assistant professor

12.09.16

"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

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