Semester Fellowships
2020-2021
- Oishi Bagchi: (Plant, Soil and Microbial Sciences) – Microbial dormancy and resuscitation in response to stress- associated phytohormones
- Isabela Lima Borges: (Kellogg Biological Station, Integrative Biology) – Testing the effects of inbreeding and soil legacy on legume-rhizobia mutualisms (lightning talk)
- Grant Falvo: (Plant, Soil and Microbial Sciences) – Resilience of microbial communities and soil organic matter formation to more extreme precipitation regimes across agricultural landscapes
- Veronica Frans: (Fisheries and Wildlife, Environmental Science and Policy Program) – New era, new niche, new theory: revising ecological niche theory to account for human influence in the Anthropocene
- Jinho Lee: (Plant, Soil and Microbial Sciences) – Long-term effect of plant diversity on soil C dynamics and C-based interactions between plant diversity, physical micro-environment and microorganisms
- Daniel Hoffman: (Plant, Soil and Microbial Sciences) – Plant diversity Ecosystem Services and Resiliency
- Vidhya Ramalingam: (Environmental Engineering Department) – Evaluation of 1,4-Dioxane Biodegradation Using
Various Soil Inocula and Biomolecular Tools - Doug Slater: (Department of Community Sustainability) – Farmer Mental Models of Nutrient Management Decisions
- Allison Zahorec: (Entomology) – Does prairie strip establishment alter the vertical stratification of microarthopod
communities? - Xinyi Tu: 9Plant, Soil and Microbial Sciences, Environmental Science and Policy Program) – Translating Science to
Practice: Soil Health Assessment Adoption by Farmers in Michigan
2019-2020
- Isabela Borges (IBIO) – Testing the effects of inbreeding and soil legacy on legume-rhizobia mutualisms
- Lindsey Kemmerling (IBIO) – Tradeoffs among ecosystem services and functions for different methods of crop management
- Alyssa Kim (PSMS) – Long-term effect of plant diversity on soil micro-scale physics and its implications for O2 supply and N2O production
- Craig Kohn (Teacher Education) – Future of Agriculture Curriculum for Teaching Sustainability (FACTS)
- Jennifer Lai (Sociology) – Comparing environmental knowledge: The case of scientists and farmers in the Midwestern United States
- Cheyenne Lei (GESS) – Albedo induced global warming potential on biofuel cropping ecosystems
- Yingjie Li (FW) – Ecosystem services dynamics and interactions in globalized agricultural landscapes
- Corinn Rutkoski (IBIO) – Soil microbial dynamics in newly established conservation strips
- Ben Tirrell (PSMS) – Understanding SOC dynamics under different management systems in Michigan: calibration of an in-situ reflectance method for SOC pools initialization
- Xinyi Tu (PSMS) – Connecting on-farm study and long-term ecological research to improve nitrogen synchrony
- Allison Zahorec (Entomology) – Evaluating soil microarthropod community structure across a gradient of agricultural intensification
Full Year Fellowships
2018
- Heather Kittredge (IBIO) – The role of horizontal gene transfer in facilitating adaptation to extreme drying-rewetting
2017
- Riva Denny (SOC) – The Role of Environmental Knowledge in Farmer Conservation Decision-making
2016
- Susan Magnoli (PBL) – Evolution in the LTER: the role of rapid adaptation in plant population establishment
2015
- Dustin Kincaid (ZOL) – Broad-scale comparative studies of inland wetland across LTER sites
2014
- Leah Palm-Forster (AFRE) – Integrating economic and ecological models to inform policies that enhance ecosystem services in working agricultural landscapes
2013
- Placid Mpeketula (CSS) – Investigation on soil carbon accumulation, mycorrhizal community composition, soil aggregation and water infiltration along a management intensity gradient
2012
- Leilei Ruan (CSS) – International collaboration: Expanding the influence of the KBS LTER in mainland China and Taiwan
2011
- Lauren Kinsman-Costello (ZOL)
- Project 1. Phosphorus cycling: Cross-site data synthesis and collaboration
- Project 2. Leaving a data legacy: Towards graduate student data sharing
Summer Fellowships
2018
- Willam ‘B.J.’ Baule (GEO) – Field level validation for modeling the effects of precipitation variability on nitrogen loss in agricultural systems
- Heather Kittredge (IBIO) – Horizontal gene transfer of nitrogen fixation genes
- Reid Longley (MMG) – Analyzing the soy-associated microbiome and its effect on plant health
- Andrew Myers (ENT) – The role of ants in monarch butterfly egg and larval survival in grasslands
- Eeswaran Rasu (PSMS) – Physical controls and stability analysis of soil moisture across different agricultural systems
- Michael Ryskamp (PLB) – Effects of nitrogen addition on plant-virus interactions in prairie grasses
- Braeden Van Deynze (AFRE) – Why do farms custom hire for pest control? Pest population dynamics as transaction cost drivers
2017
- Tyler Hampton (EES) – Revealing a New Mechanism for Hyporheic Denitrification and Greenhouse Gas Production
- Matthew Houser (SOC) – Farmer fertilizer use and climate change: A social-ecological systems approach
- Jean René Thélusmond (CEE) – Determining the Potential of Diverse Soil Communities to Metabolize Emerging Environmental Contaminants using Metagenomics
- Prakash Kumar Jha (PSMS) – Understanding Drivers of Cropping Systems Dynamics in Southwest Michigan
- Guanyuan Shuai (EES) – Using Radarsat-2 data to quantify the effects of management on spatial variability of crop growth at the LTER and scale-up fields
2016
- Sydney Ruhala (EES) – Revealing the role of stream-groundwater interactions on watershed carbon processing
- Riva Denny (SOC) – US Farmers’ Actions and Beliefs Pertaining to Nutrient Management and Climate Change
2015
- Michelle Quigley (PSMS) – Biogeochemical cycling and microbial community composition in unconsolidated detrital accumulations in shallow aquatic ecosystems
- Elizabeth Schultheis (PLB) and Melissa Kjelvik (ZOL) – Unearthing scientific stories: Creating Data Nuggets with over 25 years of LTER data to improve K-16 quantitative literacy
2014
- Dustin Kincaid (ZOL) – Biogeochemical cycling and microbial community composition in unconsolidated detrital accumulations in shallow aquatic ecosystems
- Brendan O’Neill (PSMS) – An interdisciplinary approach for linking soil agroecosystem functions with farmer decision-making
2013
- Christina Leshko (SOC), Samantha Noll (PHL), Zachary Piso (PHL), and Ian Werkheiser (PHL) – Recognizing value pluralism among ecosystem services experts and public stakeholders
2012
- Moslem Ladoni (CSS) – Effects of cover crop on soil carbon sequestration and nitrate levels
- Lisa Stelzner (PLB) – Phenology, abundance, diversity and arrangement (scattered versus clumped) of forbs in biofuel sites classified as marginal land
2011
- Nikhil Jaikumar (CSS) – Ecophysiology of perennial grain crops
- Megan Woltz (ENT) – Effects of landscape characteristics on predatory insect abundance, movement, and resulting biocontrol of crop pests