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
KBS Broader Impacts: Mentoring the next generation of community-engaged scholars
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
KBS-based project funded by new program focused on climate resiliency in agriculture
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
KBS graduate student awarded fellowship to continue research on common Michigan weeds
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
Cereal rye trials can help growers decide which varieties to grow for end use in distilled spirits
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
Integrated approach to land management unexpectedly boosts U.S. climate mitigation capacity
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 joins multi-state effort to increase the adoption of prairie strips across the Midwest
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
Initiative to inventory soil carbon levels earns Basso, collaborator $250K prize
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
Bur Oak tree a long-term tribute to KBS researcher Richard Harwood
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
KBS home to another long-term research program
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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