Biodiversity: Organisms as Tools for Discovery

The W.K. Kellogg Biological Station K-12 Partnership presents our spring workshop, Biodiversity: Organisms as Tools for Discovery, in two parts!

1. Plenary with Dr. Alisha Shah, hosted via Zoom, April 11, 4:30-6 pm
2. Field Day, IN-PERSON at Kellogg Bird Sanctuary on Saturday, April 23 from 10 am – 3pm. Click here to see the draft agenda

Thank you for an outstanding field day!

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Plenary with Dr. Alisha Shah

Title: Can insects take the heat? Using thermal tolerance to understand biodiversity and vulnerability

Dr. Shah will talk about how she experimentally measures thermal tolerance in insects and draws conclusions about why they live where they live and how vulnerable they are to climate change.

Dr. Shah is an eco-physiologist at Kellogg Biological Station, and she is interested in better understanding why some places are more biodiverse than others by using temperature tolerance of the animals as a clue. Alisha mostly uses insects in her research. She is a conservationist at heart and uses her data to predict how vulnerable insects and other animals are to climate change.

To learn more about Dr. Alisha Shah, visit her website.

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