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KBS MSU Extension's Christine Charles speaks to attendees at the 2024 KBS Long-Term Agroecosystem Research Field Day in September.

Sharing our science: The broader impacts of research help connect KBS with our communities

12.18.24

KBS has always been committed to creating spaces for education and outreach to the wider community. Much of the research and community engagement work at KBS is funded by the National Science Foundation, which places a strong emphasis ... Read More

People sit in a half-circle on bales of straw listening to a presentation at the KBS Long-term Ecological Research program site.

KBS Broader Impacts: Mentoring the next generation of community-engaged scholars

11.13.24

Broader impacts, the practical component or long-term goal of most research projects, are often delegated to the final section of a grant proposal, paper or presentation. However, broader impacts are front-and-center to successful research ... Read More

A prairie strip runs through a reduced-input plot at the KBS Long-term Ecological Research program site.

KBS-based project funded by new program focused on climate resiliency in agriculture

04.30.24

A W.K. Kellogg Biological Station faculty member has secured funding for an upcoming research project, one of four studies funded by the new Agricultural Climate Resiliency Program. Dr. Christine Sprunger, an assistant professor in the ... Read More

Robin Waterman stands in the middle of a rectangular plot marked with small white flags on a sunny summer day, one of four field plots for her reciprocal transplant field experiment. Credit: Brooke Catlett.

KBS graduate student awarded fellowship to continue research on common Michigan weeds

11.01.23

Robin Waterman, a W.K. Kellogg Biological Station graduate student in the Conner Lab, has been awarded a multi-year fellowship from the USDA Agriculture and Food Research Institute. The pre-doctoral fellowship, from the Institute's ... Read More

Rye variety trials at the W.K. Kellogg Biological Station in the summer of 2021. Photo by Leon Thelen.

Cereal rye trials can help growers decide which varieties to grow for end use in distilled spirits

10.14.22

A recently published article based on a multi-year study aims to help growers and distillers select the best rye varieties for Michigan crops. A team of scientists at Michigan State University, including Brook Wilke, associate director of ... Read More

Phil Robertson smiles at the camera while crouching in an agricultural field at KBS.

Integrated approach to land management unexpectedly boosts U.S. climate mitigation capacity

06.28.22

Nature-based climate solutions like storing carbon in trees and soil are key climate change mitigation strategies, as is bioenergy coupled with geologic carbon storage. A new study from KBS faculty member and Michigan State University ... Read More

KBS LTER undergraduate researcher Annabelle McCarthy, peers through binoculars while standing in an agricultural field planted with prairie strips. Credit to Jamie Smith.

KBS joins multi-state effort to increase the adoption of prairie strips across the Midwest

09.09.21

Before there were the gently rolling hills of farmland and forest we see today, southwest Michigan’s landscape included large areas of prairie habitat. Dominated by wildflowers, grasses, and sedges, these habitats were maintained by ... Read More

Headshot photo of Bruno Basso.

Initiative to inventory soil carbon levels earns Basso, collaborator $250K prize

07.01.21

Soils store more carbon than trees, yet forested lands are the source of far more carbon credit sales than are agricultural fields. A innovative collaboration between Michigan State University Foundation Professor Bruno Basso and Kristofer ... 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

Aerial view of rows of square agricultural research plots at the W.K. Kellogg Biological Station.

KBS home to another long-term research program

01.05.21

The W.K. Kellogg Biological Station has been a destination for ecological research projects measured in decades, not months or years. Now, KBS-based research focused on sustainable agriculture has a permanent, long-term home. In 2020, ... Read More

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