Kansas Bio Survey & Center for Ecological Research
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University of Kansas terrestrial, aquatic and geospatial research center focused on ecology. Established 1911. We also manage the @KUFieldStation.
Lawrence, Kansas
Joined August 2021
That's Ted in the red shirt, fourth photo. Tom Coole is holding the sediment sample. Christine Cornish in yellow vest. Jude Kastens (wearing hat), research prof in our Kansas Applied Remote Sensing Program, stopped by on the way home from a meeting in Great Bend.
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As part of the Water Injection Dredging (WID) experiment at Tuttle Creek, our Lake Assessment Lab, headed by Ted Harris, is sampling sediment in the density current left by the dredging before the sediment flows out the reservoir gates and downstream.
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Great day at the State Fair with our displays on monarch butterflies, Kansas mussels, corn plants + microscope, and a giant satellite-image puzzle = our work on land, in water and in the sky. Researchers Dana Peterson, Kristen Baum, Maggie Wagner and Debbie Baker represented us.
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Join us tomorrow 9/5, 12:15 p.m. for this week's Friday Ecology Seminar with Johanne Gresse, grad student in plant ecology from the Univ of Tübingen, Germany: "Ecological drivers of plant population and community stability." Info + parking + Zoom: https://t.co/UBQqOBBUlB
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Happening at KU now: The 2025 International Monarch Science Symposium. We're proud to be the admin home for the host—@monarchwatch. Dozens of researchers have gathered to share info on how to protect this species and how our lives are affected by monarchs and other pollinators.
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In KU’s West District Greenhouse, grad student Rashmi Liyanage (left) and undergrad Grace Francis collect data for an NSF-funded study that aims to help us better understand how microbiomes influence plant performance in both ecological restoration and agricultural systems.
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Slowly, the West Campus Pocket Prairie is becoming itself. Seeded in late winter 2024, it's showing a little color. Here, pitcher or blue sage, bee balm and silflower. The prairie is still extremely weedy and will be for several years—restoration takes time and patience.
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Grad students (l-r) Marcos Gimenez Diaz, Lydia Regier and Lydia Westberg of the Baer Lab were out this week surveying plant communities at a long-term research site at @KonzaLTER. Photos by Ashley Bowman, who just defended her doctoral dissertation and graduated.
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Warmer weather ~ algal blooms. Our Lake Assessment Lab folks were out last week at Marion Reservoir. Their buoy helps provide an early warning system to @KDHE and drinking water treatment plants to help them know when blooms and metal issues will affect the lake.
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A lot of rain lately, and the folks from the Kansas Division of Emergency Management tell us our Kansas Flood Mapping Dashboard has been a big help. Check out this interactive app developed by the Kansas Applied Remote Sensing (KARS) Program: https://t.co/8Vk6VloGZ7
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It's been used to monitor crops, assess damage from drought, detect changes in land use, and track vegetation recovery following a disaster. More—from KU News—on the powerful new Sentinel GreenReport Plus app.
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The Sentinel GreenReport Plus has been used to assess damage from drought and to track vegetation recovery following a disaster.
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"A powerful tool that democratizes satellite data for a wide audience, from farmers to researchers": KU researchers under the KansasView program launch new web-based geospatial app. https://t.co/jImjfGKTxE
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A handful of our researchers met at noon today to add extra plants from the West Campus greenhouse to the West Campus Pocket Prairie, which is just a year old and typically weedy—but just wait a couple of years. Thanks, Peggy, Tom, Reb, Holly and Aoesta!
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What are we learning about the KU Field Station's tree species mix from aerial imagery collected there by @NEON_sci? Implications for larger scale analyses? Join researcher David Weiss this Friday, 5/2, for our final spring 2025 ecology seminar. Info: https://t.co/SGLXGgvt55
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When populations of animals or plants fluctuate together across vast distances ("spatial synchrony"), they're responding to ecological factors. This can affect farming and more right here in Kansas.
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Click for more on study in Ecology Letters
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Congratulations to the recipients of our 2025 Student Research Awards: Yufan Zhou, Alexandra Coveney, Mira Rausch and Mackenzie Grover. We're excited to to help support your research that can benefit the lands, waters and animal life in Kansas and beyond.
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The Kansas Biological Survey & Center for Ecological Research at KU has awarded $4,000 in funding this spring for student research to be conducted this year.
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As wetlands disappear in Kansas, wet areas along reservoir shorelines may replace part of what's lost. Join us Friday, 4/18, for our weekly ecology seminar. Researcher Debbie Baker will discuss wetland surveys at Kansas reservoirs. Info: https://t.co/SGLXGguVfx
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Gardeners and farmers buying mycorrhizae (a billion-dollar market) might not be getting what they think. The experts on these fungi? Here at our research center, where the world's largest collection is stored, studied and shared. https://t.co/u1xdWqAntY
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Podcast Episode · Up From Dust · 04/01/2025 · 26m
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Bonus ecology seminar this Wed., 3/26, 3 pm: Onofrio Mazzarisi, former postdoc here, is visiting from Trieste, Italy. He'll talk about how details of population self-regulation matter for the stability of large ecological communities. Info+Zoom+parking: https://t.co/pCf9EueAKw
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Join us tomorrow for this week's (3/7) 12:15 Friday Ecology Seminar with Joel Swift, NSF Postdoctoral Research Fellow at KU: "Roots to shoots: Exploring eastern gamagrass diversity across the Central U.S." Info+Zoom+parking: https://t.co/7Riq9E549T
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