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Home | Stories and blog posts

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

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

Learning from each other at MEEC: Robert Logan

06.19.18

Each spring, over 200 early career researchers (mostly undergraduate and graduate students) meet for the three-day Midwest Ecology and Evolution Conference. Usually, the conference is held at a large university, but this year was different. ... Read More

Robert Logan sits on a bench wearing blue latex gloves and holding a syringe.

Making the most of winter by doing fieldwork in Namibia: Robert Logan

03.17.18

As a microbial ecologist, I study how microscopic organisms like bacteria and fungi drive ecosystem processes at large scales.  I am particularly fascinated by the organisms that live in very dry places.  Twice a year, I spend a ... Read More

REUs at KBS in summer 2017

Straightforward science: Nana Britwum

01.29.18

I arrived at KBS during the heat of finals season on my campus. I had just taken my in-class exams and moved my belongings out of my dorm before arriving at KBS. I was looking forward to a summer of new experiences and that is exactly what ... Read More

Tyler Treakle, wearing a red T-shirt, stands outside smiling at the camera.

Hot water and faster species: Tyler Treakle

01.15.18

 I spent the summer of 2017 at the Kellogg Biological Station (KBS) studying climate change and predation among aquatic organisms. This 11-week research experience was as eventful and influential as it could’ve been. It cemented my ... Read More

Uncovering a love for diatoms, a paleontologist’s nightmare: Sophia Beery

12.12.17

How did I get here? This thought rattled through the back of my mind as I performed phosphorus readings on the spectrophotometer. Me, a paleontologist, working with microscopic algae and being reunited with the machinery that haunted ... Read More

My first experience with research: Daijah Scott

11.27.17

I gained the opportunity to work at KBS because of a friend who had worked at KBS last summer and really enjoyed it. It even inspired her to change her major, and I decided to apply because of what she told me! I am a laboratory animal ... Read More

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