KNZ LTER investigator, Lydia Zeglin, receives NSF CAREER award to measure soil microbe and grazer interactions.

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.

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.