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The Shah Lab’s Postdoctoral Research Associate Rosemary Martin holding an eastern red-spotted newt from inside the KBS pond lab.

Inside the Pond Lab: Studying climate change through aquatic species at KBS

07.23.25

At Michigan State University’s W.K. Kellogg Biological Station, Dr. Alisha Shah and her team conduct hands-on fieldwork to better understand how climate change affects aquatic related organisms. On June 3, 2025, members of the Shah Lab, ... Read More

Head shot portrait of Christine Sprunger.

Sprunger receives TAP Award, recognized as changemaker in global food security

07.07.25

W.K. Kellogg Biological Station faculty member Christine Sprunger is one of 39 visionaries named to the 2025 Top Agri-food Pioneers, or TAP, list by the World Food Prize Foundation. Now in its second year, the TAP list honors individuals ... Read More

Phil Robertson elected to National Academy of Sciences for 2025

06.30.25

Phil Robertson, University Distinguished Professor of ecosystem science at the W.K. Kellogg Biological Station and in Michigan State University’s Department of Plant, Soil and Microbial Sciences, has been elected to the National Academy of ... Read More

A BioBlitz participant takes a close-up photo of an oak seedling. The phone containing the image of the seedling is visible in the photo.

Saturday, June 14 | KBS BioBlitz at the Bird Sanctuary

05.28.25

Join the W.K. Kellogg Biological Station on Saturday, June 14, to kick off the third annual KBS BioBlitz at the W.K. Kellogg Bird Sanctuary. KBS naturalists and local scientists will be on hand to explore and document the diversity of life, ... Read More

A Florida scrub jay perches on a tree branch.

Conservation focusing on birds of a feather may have mixed results, MSU- and KBS-led study shows

05.27.25

Conservation strategies are turning back the doomsday clock in threatened Florida Scrub-Jays – but not without caveats, a new study published in Current Biology shows.  In the early 2000s, conservationists proposed a plan to move ... Read More

Data Nuggets Fellow Samson Stynen speaks to a room full of educators seated at round tables.

Science communication and data literacy: Reflections on a Data Nuggets fellowship

05.19.25

As a first-year graduate student moving from Reno, Nevada, I had some hesitation about whether I’d find connections in Michigan or at the W.K. Kellogg Biological Station. I never expected that one of my strongest connections would be with ... Read More

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Elena Litchman named a fellow by the Ecological Society of America

05.02.25

Elena Litchman, a W.K. Kellogg Biological Station faculty member and MSU Research Foundation Professor of aquatic ecology in Michigan State University’s Department of Integrative Biology, is one of eight recent fellows named by the ... Read More

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Haddad among four MSU researchers named AAAS Fellows

04.02.25

In March 2025, W.K. Kellogg Biological Station faculty member Nick Haddad, along with Michigan State University colleagues Gemma Reguera, Laura McCabe and Michael Thoennessen, were recognized as 2024 fellows of the American Association for ... Read More

A single cow stands in the pasture at the W.K. Kellogg Biological Station Pasture Dairy Center.

KBS Pasture Dairy Center wraps up 15 years of innovation

03.28.25

Starting in 2009, the Pasture Dairy Center at the W.K. Kellogg Biological Station pioneered automatic robotic milking combined with data-driven intensive rotational grazing methods for dairy cattle. After 15 years of innovation and ... Read More

Close-up photo of a zebra longwing butterfly, a brown butterfly with yellow stripes, perched on a green leaf.

A country without butterflies? New study raises the possibility

03.28.25

A sweeping new study published in the journal Science tallies, for the first time, butterfly data from more than 76,000 surveys across the continental United States. The results: From 2000 to 2020, the total butterfly abundance fell by 22% ... Read More

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