Co-author Alexi Shalapyonok secures FlowCytobot (FCB) underwater at the Martha’s Vineyard Coastal Observatory (MVCO) tower. FCB, an automated submersible flow cytometer, operates unattended at MVCO for 6 months or longer, measuring thousands of individual microscopic plankton every hour. Sean Whelan
We characterized the sensitivity of biological soil crusts to drought (drought plot in photo) in dry grassland ecosystems (Fernandes et al. 2018). We also documented plant evolutionary responses to drought (Whitney et al. 2019) Lauren Baur
We are directly testing how climate mean and variance interacts by building the first field experiments that cross long-term drought with increased rainfall variability. Jennifer Rudgers
Scott Collins
Will Pockman
Anny Chung
A prairie strip growing in wheat at the KBS LTER Main Cropping Systems Experiment. Kurt Stepnitz
A KBS LTER graduate student collects soil cores in a prairie strip on the Main Cropping Systems Experiment. Kurt Stepnitz
A research technician samples greenhouse gases on the KBS LTER Main Cropping Systems Experiment Kurt Stepnitz
Late fall switchgrass harvest at the GLBRC / KBS LTER biofuels scale-up site; Photo Credit: J.E.Doll, Michigan State University J.E. Doll- Michigan State University
