LTER All Scientist’s Meeting

Oxalis stricta (yellow wood sorrel) enjoys the early season sun before its grass neighbors grow tall.

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…

The semester is over, which means the lab is gearing up for field season! We are starting new projects and performing spring measurements on our many existing experiments. This year, Sally Koerner will be starting the CHANGE experiment, and the entire lab is launching EDGE, a huge collaborative effort across grasslands in the U.S. We’re…

Alex, Carina and Mary presented their research at the Graduate Showcase on November 16. Carina won the New Graduate Student Award! Congrats all!

We are pleased to announce that Tim Ohlert is joining the Smith Lab in Fall 2022 as our new postdoc. Check out his website for more about his research! https://timothyohlert.weebly.com/

The Smith and Knapp labs recently celebrated Carina for his master’s defense and Matt for his doctoral defense!