Konza Prairie News
LTER Executive Board Message on Recent Events |
The LTER Executive Board recently posted a message regarding recent events. |
KNZ LTER REU student, Molly Fisher, writes for blog |
Former KNZ LTER REU student, Molly Fisher's blog entry is featured on Short Stories About Long Term Research, an LTER graduate student generated blog. Molly was a student in the lab of Dr. Walter Dodds. |
Avolio named ESA Fellow |
KNZ LTER investigator, Meghan Avolio, was named an Ecological Society of America 2020 Early Career Fellow. |
Kaufmans honored |
Don and Glennis Kaufman were recognized by the American Society of Mammalogists with the establishment of a graduate student research award named in their honor. |
Zeglin receives NSF CAREER award |
KNZ LTER investigator, Lydia Zeglin, receives NSF CAREER award to measure soil microbe and grazer interactions. |
Konza featured on Iowa Public Radio |
KNZ LTER's burn research was recently featured on Iowa Public Radio. |
Welti featured on NPR |
Former KNZ LTER PhD student in the KSU Division of Biology, Ellen Welti recently discussed her research on NPR. While at KSU, Welti was a member of the Joern lab. She is now a postdoc with Mike Kaspari at the University of Oklahoma. Her interview covers her recent PNAS paper which was based solely on long-term grasshopper and plant data collected at Konza Prairie coupled with new analyses. |
Allenbrand Three Minute Thesis Finalist |
KNZ LTER graduate student, Jaide Allenbrand, was one of eight students selected as a finalist in the KSU Three Minute Thesis contest. Allenbrand is a member of the Zeglin lab. |
Smith's synthesis working group selected |
The Long Term Ecological Research (LTER) Network Office announced the award of three new synthesis working groups. Konza LTER investigator, Melinda Smith (CSU)'s group will be conducting a global synthesis of multi-year drought effects on terrestrial ecosystems. |
Dodds discusses new book |
Konza LTER investigator, Walter Dodds, discusses his new book, "The World's Worst Problems." Using a scientific approach, Dodds quantifies world problems based on actual danger and probability of deaths and human suffering. |