Shortgrass Steppe
Although most of the Smith Lab works at Konza, we sometimes visit the Shortgrass Steppe site in Eastern Colorado. Early season rainfall brings out the color at EDGE!
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Alex, Carina and Mary presented their research at the Graduate Showcase on November 16. Carina won the New Graduate Student Award! Congrats all!
ESA 2014
Sally Koerner, Qiang Yu, Francis Chaves, John Dietrich, and Ava Hoffman have been accepted to present at Ecological Society of America’s 99th annual meeting in Sacramento, CA. Congratulations!
Smith Lab Takes on ESA 2025!
The Smith Lab had a strong showing at the 2025 Ecological Society of America Annual Meeting in Baltimore, MD! Our students shared their exciting research through both oral presentations and posters, highlighting the breadth of work happening in the lab. From below-ground ecosystem dynamics to grazing and grassland community ecology, our team contributed new insights…
Defense Celebration!
The Smith and Knapp labs recently celebrated Carina for his master’s defense and Matt for his doctoral defense!
Grassland Ecologists.. in the lab!
We are interested in species changes at the community level, but we’re also interested in different, smaller scales. Looking at how transcription changes can help identify unique expressed signatures of different species and how they respond to different environments. Below, graduate students Francis Chaves and Ava Hoffman prepare samples in liquid nitrogen for RNA sequencing….
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Can’t get enough of grasslands!