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  • KBS LTER scientists use machine learning to improve prediction of US cropland nitrous oxide emissions
  • Undergraduate and graduate KBS researchers show how climate warming may be a boon for native goldenrod
  • Graduate research from the KBS LTER reveals plant traits that predict ecosystem stability
  • Farmscapes to Forests: An evening with KBS LTER’s 2025 Artists-in-Residence
  • RET Melissa Frost to visit Konza LTER in cross-site synthesis effort
  • Humanizing the Science: LTER Artist-in-Residence program marks its fifth year
  • LTER researchers collaborate with local educators to promote outdoor STEM education
  • KBS grad student earn awards for national energy research for harnessing soil microbes
  • Thirty years of data reveal major declines in lady beetles and their pest-fighting power in Midwestern farmland
  • KBS LTER graduate student receives prestigious MSU science award
  • MiSTRIPS program extends its impact beyond farm fields to classrooms and communities
  • Creativity and curiosity: K-Woods students explore science and art at KBS
  • MiSTRIPS impacts farmers beyond their fields
  • MiSTRIPS program inspires local artists and strengthens community connections
  • 8th Annual Underground Innovations to expand regenerative farmer networks in Michigan
  • MiSTRIPS program sparks new research and stronger community partnerships
  • Elizabeth Schultheis awarded fellowship to tackle science misconceptions
  • Graduate research from the KBS LTER highlights the role of drought in altering plant-environment interactions
  • Graduate student joins Artist-in-Residence program through KBS Outreach Fellowship
  • MiSTRIPS celebrates five years of success in sustainable agriculture with prairie strips
  • Graduate research from the KBS LTER reveals how nematodes contribute to soil food web stability in droughts
  • Sprunger receives TAP Award, recognized as changemaker in global food security
  • Nature-based climate solutions are a powerful tool to reverse the warming caused by deforestation
  • Nurturing nature in Detroit: Students, gardens, and the power of outdoor learning
  • Prairie strips that pay – upcoming MiSTRIPS Field Day
  • Listening first: How KBS is expanding the reach of conservation research
  • New research leverages long-term treatments in novel ways to study plant biotic interactions
  • Announcing the 2025 KBS LTER Artists-in-Residence!
  • Graduate research from the KBS LTER reveals the value of soil microbe diversity for sustainable agriculture
  • Science Communication and Data Literacy: Reflections on My Fellowship with Data Nuggets 
  • Now & Then: An evening with KBS LTER Artist-in-Residence, Erica Bradshaw
  • Phil Robertson elected to National Academy of Sciences for work in sustainable agriculture
  • Collaboration between Michigan farmers and LTER researchers provides insights into soil health at the margins of agricultural fields
  • Long-term research at the KBS LTER reveals how changes in land use shape soil structure and carbon storage
  • Collaborative study with Michigan DNR to support agriculture and conservation
  • Bird Sanctuary to feature poetry by Artist in Residence, Mikayla Thompson, this April
  • Nick Haddad, co-Director of the KBS LTER, recognized as 2024 AAAS Fellow
  • Kara Haas, KBS LTER K-12 Partnership Coordinator, wins MSU award for community engagement
  • MSU researchers uncover decline in butterfly populations, highlighting urgent need for conservation efforts
  • Long-term study reveals best practices for building soil carbon in agricultural soils
  • Prairie strips: a refuge in an agricultural desert or an ecological trap for native pollinators?
  • Long-term data provides new perspective on agricultural impacts on arthropod diversity
  • Graduate research from the KBS LTER explores grassland resilience to climate change
  • Award-winning graduate research highlights previously unrecorded benefits of prairie strips
  • 7th Annual Underground Innovations set to take place February 4-5, 2025
  • Using community-engaged scholarship to address conservation barriers in rural Michigan croplands 
  • MSU KBS broader impacts: Mentoring the next generation of community-engaged scholars
  • An educator’s perspective on the 2024 KBS LTER All Scientist Meeting
  • Good Neighbors: An evening with KBS LTER Artist-in-Residence, Trevor Grabill
  • New prairie strip partial budget tool from MiSTRIPS team
  • KBS LTER welcomes Erica Bradshaw as our 2024 Artist in Residence
  • Kellogg Biological Station’s K-12 Partnership Summer Institute to mark its 25th anniversary this month
  • KBS LTER Scientists, Robertson and Sprunger, named 2024 ESA Fellows
  • Melissa Frost, KBS LTER RET, named Michigan Department of Education’s Region 7 Teacher of the Year!
  • Drought effect on pore structure in soils: Reflections from an LTER Fellow
  • Exploring the effects of multiple crises on the global food trade system: Reflections from an LTER Fellow
  • Underground Innovations 2024 event taking place in Frankenmuth, MI
  • Trials and tribulations of a PhD student: Reflections from an LTER Fellow
  • Pools of phosphorus across the LTER: Reflections from an LTER Fellow
  • Buchanan students visit KBS LTER and Kellogg Bird Sanctuary with RET Melissa Frost
  • Combine art and science in a sun print workshop at the Kellogg Bird Sanctuary 
  • 2023 KBS LTER Artist-in-Residence set for June 12-18
  • Long-time collaborator with KBS, Dean Baas, recognized as NRC-SARE Hero
  • Area educators invited to Kellogg Biological Station K-12 Partnership’s Summer Institute 
  • DreamScene Placemaking: Artists-in-Residence 2022
  • Similar invasive insects coexist through slight differences in environmental responses
  • KBS Long-Term Ecological Research program awarded $7.65 million NSF grant
  • Article featuring KBS research wins outstanding paper award
  • Welcoming the new LTAR Associate Director for Engagement, Tayler Ulbrich
  • KBS LTER helps prospective biological science grad students envision the field
  • Building relationships by the ocean
  • The ABC’s – Agriculture, Beneficial Beetles and Conservation: Reflections from an LTER Fellow
  • Little strips of prairie can go a long way
  • Prairie strip and soil health farm field day to be held in Cassopolis on August 26th
  • Transforming Michigan’s agricultural landscapes – Do prairie strips diversify insect communities in squash production?: Reflections from an LTER Fellow
  • New KBS LTER Artist-in-Residence program aims to create intersection between art and research
  • Sarah Evans named to prestigious 2022 Earth Leadership Program cohort
  • Prairie strip ecology, art, and advocacy in the LTER: Reflections from an LTER Fellow
  • Studying small populations using big experiments: Reflections from an LTER Fellow
  • Disentangling the complex effects of climate change on above and belowground communities: Reflections from an LTER Fellow
  • Species interactions in prairie strips: Reflections from an LTER Fellow
  • Scaling-up conservation practices: How much can farmers afford?
  • Measuring and predicting soil carbon to offset climate change
  • Studying climate change effects on plant traits: Reflections from an LTER Fellow
  • Global warming impacts of intensively managed agricultural landscapes in SW Michigan: Reflections from an LTER Fellow
  • My Spartan Summer: Creating drought conditions
  • Kellogg Biological Station joins multi-state effort to increase the adoption of prairie strips across the Midwest
  • Are zebra mussels eating or helping toxic algae?
  • Insects, big data and a passion for open science launch a rewarding career
  • Organic field day to be hosted at KBS
  • Herbicide resistant weeds threaten conservation agriculture
  • Designing agricultural landscapes to provide more than crops
  • Novel windows through time open fresh views of long-term research
  • Science on the Hill: connecting research to policy through virtual Congressional meetings
  • Bridging the gap between our community and science with Film
  • Data Nuggets researchers lead collaborative study examining representation in STEM curriculum
  • Between friends and foes – when is it best for plants to avoid vs. interact with soil symbionts? Reflections from an LTER fellow
  • On-farm conservation practices to build resilience: Notes from a virtual field day
  • A new perspective – using bioenergy crops to alleviate global warming: Reflections from an LTER fellow
  • The metamorphosis of the monarch butterfly and the citizen scientist

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