Thanks to everyone who contributed to and attended the 2019 KBS LTER All Scientist Meeting and Investigators Field Tour. It was our best attended meeting for many years with about 110 participants over the two days
On Thursday, September 19 the program included a plenary session, field visit, discussion groups, and a poster session and buffet dinner reception
On Friday, September 20 the program included a Keynote seminar and building network presentations and discussion sessions
Keynote seminar
- Matt Liebman: Iowa State University, Dept. of Agronomy. Enhancing Biodiversity in the Corn Belt to Improve Environmental Quality and Crop Production
Plenary session
- Neville Millar, LTER Science Coordinator provided an introduction to the event and program overview
- Nick Haddad, LTER Principal Investigator provided an overview of past, current, and new directions for the project: KBS-LTER at 30: Looking to the Future
The LTER executive team provided overviews of our integrated research themes on resilience:
- Sarah Evans and Sandy Marquart-Pyatt: Resources
- Doug Landis: Diversity
- Jen Lau and Scott Swinton: Adaptation
- Bruno Basso: Scaling-up
- Julie Doll: Scaling-out
Building across Networks
Network leaders from the National Science Foundation and United States Department of Agriculture discussed current and future funding, initiatives, and collaborations
- Dan Gruner (NSF Macrosystems): NSF research and training opportunities
- Roland Roberts (NSF NEON): NEON: Observatory status, future plans, and research intersections
- Teferi Tsegaye (USDA ARS – LTAR / CEAP): An overview of ARS: water availability and watershed management and the Long-term Agroecosystems network
Building Networks at KBS-LTER
KBS LTER faculty discussed national networks they helped form and coordinate
- Kay Gross: The evolution of a network: productivity-diversity-traits and more
- Steve Hamilton: Cross-site LINX experiments (1995-2007): Nitrogen cycling in streams of diverse biomes across North America
Field visit
A field visit to the Main Cropping System Experiment included wagon rides, lunch, and research presentations, primarily from LTER graduate students, including a number who have received recent LTER Fellowship awards. Research themes covered included prairie strips, drought responses, greenhouse gas exchange, and remote sensing.
- Corinn Rutkoski: How do prairie strips influence soil health?
- Allison Zahorec: Microarthropod response to prairie strips
- Zach Luther: What incentives are needed to encourage farmers to plant prairie strips?
- Steve Hamilton: Rainout shelters – overview
- Kevin Kahmark: Creating drought: the optimal rainout shelter
- Jennifer Jones: Microbial inoculation and resilience to drought
- Grant Falvo: Soil carbon as a mechanism of resilience
- Brandon Latorre: Prairie restoration effects on plant-pollinator interactions
- Alyssa Kim: Long-term effect of plant diversity on soil micro-scale physics and its implications for O2 supply and N2O production
- Ben Tirrell: Understanding SOC dynamics under different management systems: calibration of an in-situ reflectance method for SOC pools initialization
- Yingjie Li: Ecosystem services dynamics and interactions in globalized agricultural landscapes
- Xinyi Tu: Connecting on-farm study and long-term ecological research to improve N synchrony
- Di Liang: Nitrification kinetics along a management gradient
- Cheyenne Lei: Spatiotemporal variability of albedo in bioenergy cropping systems
Research opportunities discussion groups
Attendees participated in break out groups to brain-storm various research initiatives, the results of which will be posted here at a later date and may be used to help inform future work
- Doug Landis and Braeden Van Deynze: Leveraging experiments (prairie strips)
- Jen Lau and Jennifer Jones: Leveraging experiments (rainout shelters)
- Scott Swinton and Lukas Bell-Dereske: New frontiers (plot to field scale studies)
- Bruno Basso and Ben Tirrell: New frontiers (remote sensing – KBS and beyond)
- Julie Doll and Craig Kohn: Broader impacts (outreach to engage stakeholders and the public)
Poster reception
Posters were presented and discussed during a dinner buffet reception at the Carriage House. Poster presentations will be available here soon.
Members of our Science Advisory Committee attended the meeting to provide feedback on various aspects of the project:
- Doug Jackson-Smith: The Ohio State University
- John Blair: Kansas State University
- Jeannine Cavender-Bares: University of Minnesota
- Sarah Garlick: Hubbard Brook Research Foundation
- Christine Hawkes: North Carolina State University
- Matt Liebman: Iowa State University
If you have any questions, please contact Neville Millar, KBS LTER Science Coordinator.——————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————-
Posters
- Allison Zahorec and Doug Landis Agricultural Intensification: Impacts on Microarthropod Communities abstract poster
- Binod Basyal and Sarah Emery Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi benefit switchgrass growth and root architecture under extreme drought abstract poster
- Braeden Van Deynze Technology and Trade-Offs in Managed Ecosystems: The Case of Glyphosate-Tolerant Soybeans abstract poster
- Carissa Gervasi Resilience through the lens of long-term research: a critical assessment of LTER site proposals abstract poster
- Corinn Rutkoski and Sarah Evans How do prairie strips influence soil health? abstract poster
- Di Liang and G Philip Robertson Nitrification-Derived Nitrous Oxide (N2O) Emissions from Annual and Perennial Cropping Systems in Southwest Michigan abstract poster
- Hsun-Yi Hsieh From drone images to pollination services: a case study at KBS Long-term Ecological Research site abstract poster
- Jennifer Lai Changes in farmer environmental knowledge: influences from information sources abstract poster
- Jesse Puka-Beals and Greta Gramig Combining Cover Crops, Strip Tillage and Biodegradable Mulches in Carrot Production abstract poster
- Joe LaRose and Rob Myers Cover Cropping for Wildlife abstract poster
- Kara Haas Science Education Professional Development abstract poster
- Lindsey Kemmerling, Sean Griffin, and Nick Haddad Choice of biofuel crop affects yield and pollinator conservation abstract poster
- Matthew A Belanger The effect of wetting and drying on carbon availability in switchgrass soils abstract poster
- Pietro Sciusco Spatiotemporal variations of albedo in managed agricultural landscapes: Inferences to global warming impact (GWI) abstract poster
- Stephanie Clark, Jackson A. Helms IV, Jamie Smith, Kathleen Knupp, Nick M. Ha... Conventional and organic farming methods alter ant activity during the Michigan growing season abstract poster
- Yahn-Jauh Su The rhythm of carbon cycle in agricultural ecosystems and its drivers: an application of wavelet analysis abstract poster
Presentations
- Allison Zahorec Microarthropod response to prairie strips abstract presentation
- Alyssa Kim Long-term effect of plant diversity on soil micro-scale physics and its implications for O2 supply and N2O production abstract presentation
- Ben Tirrell Understanding soil organic carbon (SOC) dynamics under different management systems in Michigan: calibration of an in-situ reflectance method for SOC pools initialization abstract presentation
- Brandon Latorre Prairie restoration effects on plant-pollinator interactions abstract presentation
- Bruno Basso Scaling-up abstract presentation
- Cheyenne Lei Spatiotemporal variability of albedo in bioenergy cropping systems abstract presentation
- Corinn Rutkoski How do prairie strips influence soil health? abstract presentation
- Dan Gruner NSF Research and Training Opportunities abstract presentation
- Di Liang Nitrification kinetics along a management gradient abstract presentation
- Doug Landis Diversity abstract presentation
- Grant Falvo Soil carbon as a mechanism of resilience abstract presentation
- Jen Lau and Scott Swinton Adaptation abstract presentation
- Jennifer Jones Microbial inoculation and resilience to drought abstract presentation
- Julie Doll Scaling-out abstract presentation
- Kay Gross The Evolution of a Network: Productivity-Diversity-Traits and More abstract presentation
- Kevin Kahmark Creating drought: the optimal rainout shelter abstract presentation
- Matt Liebman Enhancing Biodiversity in the Corn Belt to Improve Environmental Quality and Crop Production abstract presentation
- Nick Haddad KBS-LTER at 30: Looking to the Future abstract presentation
- Roland Roberts NEON: Observatory Status, Future Plans, and Research Intersections abstract presentation
- Sarah Evans and Sandy Marquart-Pyatt Resources abstract presentation
- Steve Hamilton Rainout shelters – overview abstract presentation
- Steve Hamilton Cross-site LINX experiments (1995-2007): Nitrogen cycling in streams of diverse biomes across North America abstract presentation
- Teferi Tsegaye An overview of ARS: water availability and watershed management and the Long-term agroecosystems network abstract presentation
- Xinyi Tu Connecting on-farm study and long-term ecological research to improve N synchrony abstract presentation
- Yingjie Li Ecosystem services dynamics and interactions in globalized agricultural landscapes abstract presentation
- Zach Luther What incentives are needed to encourage farmers to plant prairie strips? abstract presentation
Meeting held on: 2019-09-19