Awards for Fellowships for Long-term Ecological Research

Semester Fellowships

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

Heather Kittredge (IBIO) – The role of horizontal gene transfer in facilitating adaptation to extreme drying-rewetting

Riva Denny (SOC) – The Role of Environmental Knowledge in Farmer Conservation Decision-making

Susan Magnoli (PBL) – Evolution in the LTER: the role of rapid adaptation in plant population establishment

Dustin Kincaid (ZOL) – Broad-scale comparative studies of inland wetland across LTER sites

Leah Palm-Forster (AFRE) – Integrating economic and ecological models to inform policies that enhance ecosystem services in working agricultural landscapes

Placid Mpeketula (CSS) – Investigation on soil carbon accumulation, mycorrhizal community composition, soil aggregation and water infiltration along a management intensity gradient

Leilei Ruan (CSS) – International collaboration: Expanding the influence of the KBS LTER in mainland China and Taiwan

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

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

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

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

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

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

Christina Leshko (SOC), Samantha Noll (PHL), Zachary Piso (PHL), and Ian Werkheiser (PHL) – Recognizing value pluralism among ecosystem services experts and public stakeholders

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

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