Smith lab in the news!
Melinda Smith discussing the International Drought Experiment (IDE)
Read about the lighter side of field work at Konza Prairie, written by Mary Linabury
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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!
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!
Congrats to Alicia!
Congratulations to Alicia for successfully defending her Master’s thesis focused on the Shortgrass Steppe! The Smith lab is excited to see the great things Alicia does next!
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….
Oxalis stricta
Oxalis stricta (yellow wood sorrel) enjoys the early season sun before its grass neighbors grow tall.