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Irrigated corn at KBS Long Term Ecological Research site

The carbon footprint of irrigation

10.31.18

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

MSU Scientist Marjorie Weber with grape vines

Weber integrates evolution in agriculture at KBS

10.22.18

MSU Assistant Professor of Plant Biology Marjorie Weber is the lead investigator on a $1.1 million NSF grant to study evolutionary processes in wild grape plants for five years at KBS. Weber is broadly interested in the evolution of ... Read More

MEG lab increases possibilities for discovery

10.15.18

KBS has always been an excellent place to do research, but in the past year, its facilities’ appeal has increased thanks to the establishment of the Molecular Ecology and Genomics (MEG) lab. “The MEG lab supports the growing research and ... Read More

Chris Klausmeier and Elena Litchman

KBS aquatic ecologist awarded NSF grant to study phytoplankton traits in four southwest Michigan lakes

10.12.18

MSU/KBS aquatic ecologist Elena Litchman is leading a three-year, $993,000 project funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Environmental Biology (DEB) in collaboration with the University of Texas at Austin ... Read More

Fog in the Namib (photo credit Juliane Zeidler)

Study on fog carrying coastal microbes inland featured in The Atlantic

08.31.18

A collaborative study by KBS assistant professor Sarah Evans, KBS graduate student Robert Logan, Cary Institute researcher Kathleen Weathers and Bard College professor Eli Dueker exploring the biology of fog was recently featured in The ... Read More

Moving forward in the dark: Sean Griffin and his bees

08.27.18

Science is often a series of failures that teach us how to succeed. After a first field season riddled with messes, graduate student Sean Griffin is making a beeline toward his research on pollinators in his second year of field ... Read More

Wetzel comes to KBS to conduct research on plant-insect relationships

08.23.18

Will Wetzel, an assistant professor in MSU’s Department of Entomology, has been coming to KBS to conduct field research for the past two years. He and his team of students and postdoctoral researchers are interested in understanding ... Read More

Students walk along the dock at the Gull Lake Marina at sunset.

A change of scenery: From community college to climate change

08.15.18

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

Rotational grazing mitigates greenhouse gas emissions

07.30.18

According to data from the United Nations, livestock generate 14.5% of global greenhouse gas emissions, and cattle are responsible for more emissions than any other livestock species. Using rotational grazing is one way livestock farmers ... Read More

Mridul Thomas in Antarctica

KBS alumni update: Mridul Thomas

07.24.18

In 2007 Mridul Thomas arrived in Hickory Corners from India to pursue a Ph.D. in Elena Litchman’s lab. Since earning his Ph.D. in Zoology and Ecology, Evolutionary Biology & Behavior from MSU, Thomas spent almost three years as a ... Read More

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