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A green golf cart donated to the Kellogg Bird Sanctuary sits next to a large pile of wood chips, with a shovel leaning against the bed of the cart.

Generous donations help Kellogg Bird Sanctuary motor on

11.17.21

Providing excellent care for the W.K. Kellogg Bird Sanctuary's resident birds and the grounds they call home can require some heavy lifting. Thanks to the donation of an electric golf cart by the Greenfield family, Sanctuary staff has a ... Read More

Cheyenne Cope, wearing a pink baseball cap, smiles at the camera while standing in a wooded area.

Hungry geese and hidden birds: A summer at Kellogg Bird Sanctuary

08.10.21

If there’s one word Cheyenne Cope would use to describe her summer at W.K. Kellogg Biological Station, it would be corn. Cheyenne is the visitor experience intern at Kellogg Bird Sanctuary. For this internship, she greets visitors to ... Read More

Head shot photo of Ashlynn Toles wearing an MSU T-shirt against a grey background.

Care and conservation: A summer for the birds

08.10.21

Many students gain valuable experience spending the summer at the W.K. Kellogg Biological Station. This is especially true for intern Ashlynn Toles. Ashlynn is a rising senior at Michigan State University, studying environmental biology and ... Read More

Ceco Maples, wearing a black T-shirt and a blue baseball cap, smiles at the camera against a background of trees and shrubs.

Digging into summer: Research and recreation at KBS

07.28.21

For Ceco Maples, summer at W.K. Kellogg Biological Station means spending as much time outdoors as possible. Ceco is a rising junior at Michigan State University, studying biology and anthropology. He is an Undergraduate Research ... Read More

Katherine Egeler, wearing a black T-shirt with a Monarch butterfly image, stands against a black and yellow mural of a butterfly.

Stepping out into a new field: A summer student’s venture into ecology

07.20.21

In anticipation of spending the summer in a research lab, Katherine Egeler had some uncertainties. “I was really nervous that I would get to my lab and I would not know how to do anything,” says Katherine. “I don’t really know why I was ... Read More

Joseph Savage sits in a classroom, focused on working on his computer. Equations are written on a chalkboard in the background.

Seeing what happens: A summer of coding and canoes

07.02.21

As a summer researcher in the Klausmeier Lab, Joseph Savage is spending a lot of his time coding and doing math. Joseph is a member of the Research Experiences for Undergraduates—REU—program at W.K. Kellogg Biological Station. A rising ... Read More

Richard Harwood, seated, smiles while looking away from the camera.

Bur Oak tree a long-term tribute to KBS researcher Richard Harwood

02.19.21

The memory of a treasured colleague of many at W.K. Kellogg Biological Station will endure here in arboreal form. Last November, KBS grounds staff and faculty planted a Bur Oak tree (Quercus macrocarpa) near the KBS Long-term Ecological ... Read More

Alyssa Schuck stands in a field, smiling and making a peace sign.

Love at first sight: The beauty of hard work and research at Kellogg Farm

10.26.20

Falling in love with the W.K. Kellogg Biological Station was like meeting a mysterious person in a bar. I saw KBS for the first-time last summer; I was so captivated by the beauty that the idea of hard work was non-existent. Brook Wilke, ... Read More

Karina Cortijo-Robles smiles while sitting at a desk with a laptop computer.

An unusual engagement: Presenting and networking virtually at the ESA annual meeting

10.02.20

This summer was a whirlwind of unusual virtual meetings, from participating in a remote Research Experience for Undergraduates program to presenting at the 2020 Ecological Society of America, or ESA, from my living room. Remote research ... Read More

Intern Kylee Kunse pours feed into a trough at Kellogg Farm.

Life lessons in the field: Reflections on a KBS summer interning at Kellogg Farm

09.23.20

When I was told I would be spending the summer working on a study with grass-fed beef steers at the W.K. Kellogg Farm, I was thrilled. When the first day of preparation for the trial rolled around, I was more than ready to get started and ... Read More

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