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  • Congrats, Matt Stephenson, on a successful PhD defense! Matt's dissertation will be posted under Lab Publications in the next several weeks.

  • Lab graduate, Ellen Audia, just published a second paper from her thesis: "Measuring changes in financial and ecosystems service outcomes with simulated grassland restoration in a Corn Belt watershed" was published in the journal Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems. Ellen finished her MS in spring of 2021. She is now a PhD student at Southern Illinois University. Congrats, Ellen! We're glad but not surprised you're doing so well!

  • Congrats to Jordan Giese for winning a student award for the presentation "Grassland Bird Response to Prairie Strips in Agricultural Landscapes" at the 2022 American Ornithological Society conference in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Very proud of you, Jordan!

  • We welcome our Summer 2022 undergraduate research technicians Fatima Najar and Katherine Berber-Solis to our team! We're excited to work with you.

  • Congratulations to Alyssa Baldwin, Joseph McGovern and Maura Speck for completing their undergraduate degrees at ISU! Also, Mary Kate Shaver graduated last December. We're very proud of you and know you will go far in life and your careers. Keep in touch!

  • Lisa Schulte Moore receiving CSSP's 2022 Citation for Leadership and Achievement

    On May 1, Lisa Schulte Moore received the 2022 Citation For Leadership and Achievement from the Council of Scientific Society Presidents (CSSP). The citation was delivered at the Council's Spring Leadership Workshop in Washington, DC.

  • On March 25th, Lisa spoke at Minneapolis' Westminster Town Hall Forum on  'Climate Solutions Rooted in the Soil'. The Forum engages "the public in reflection and dialogue on the key issues of our day from an ethical perspective." This spring's series includes the voices of 5 women working on the forefront of climate change solutions.

  • Find lab members Andres Vargas and Melanie Bogert presenting their research at the North Central Branch of the Entomological Society of America meeting in Minneapolis, March 20-23.

  • Lab members Jim JordahlRichard Magala, Suraj Upadhaya, and Lisa Schulte Moore were recognized for their contributions to the crafting the report, Carbon Science for Carbon Markets for the State of Iowa, with the 2022 Dean’s Citation Award. They were honored for their achievements at the annual College of Agriculture and Life Sciences awards program on Thursday, March 10.

  • Jordan, Lisa, Mary Kate, and Matt are all presenting at the Midwest Fish and Wildlife Conference in Des Moines, February 13-16. 

  • The second paper from Matt's Master's thesis, Miniature temperature data loggers increase precision and reduce bias when estimating the daily survival rate for bird nests, was recently published in the Journal of Field Ornithology. Well done, Matt!

  • Check Out New Perspectives Paper in Nature Sustainability

    Schulte Moore and colleagues publish new paper, Meeting global challenges with regenerative agriculture producing food and energy, in Nature Sustainability.

  • PEWI v4 is launched after several years of development. It boasts a more interactive display, overlay options with the biophysical map layers, and a BRAND NEW economics module. We have over 25 student developers to thank for making this happen. Learn about a few of these developers here (video). Read press release here.

  • According to the MacArthur Foundation, Schulte Moore received the fellowship "for implementing locally relevant approaches to build soil, improve water quality, protect biodiversity, and strengthen the resilience of row crop agriculture."

  • Lisa Schulte Moore was appointed to a State of Iowa agricultural workgroup, which will support the work of the Iowa Carbon Sequestration Task Force.

  • Once again, we'll have a full lab this summer. We welcome with Maura Speck as a field research assistant, Sandra Campos-Diaz as a visiting scholar-teacher, and Sofia Guzman and Mary Elisabeth Kitundu CyBound Scholars.

  • Pollinating insects can help soybean yields

    Insects can help soybean yields by carrying out more effective pollination. A new study by Schulte Moore and colleagues suggests introducing pollinator habitat to soybean fields may lead to production benefits, in addition to environmental advantages.

  • Congrats to our Spring 2021 lab graduates: Ellen Audia (MS Wildlife Ecology), Neh Batwara (MS Information Systems), Jacob Handel (BS Environmental Science), and Kyla Yuza-Pate (BS Animal Ecology). We so appreciate these scholars and all their contributions to the lab. They will be missed!

  • Climate-friendly farming strategies can improve the land and generate income for farmers

    What do climate-smart croplands look like? They have a lot more prairie strips, wetlands, and perennial crops.

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