Pictures Smith and Knapp lab (plus some friends) April 2024 Smith lab paints grasslands! Sampling at shortgrass steppe Mary enjoying the field Alex working hard at building a fence Alex and Mary at the Graduate Student showcase Fall 2022 Alex and Nico in Glacier National Park Fall 2021 lab photo (minus Kate and Mary) Mountains at Shortgrass Steppe Kate sampling IDE June 2019 Carina collecting soil samples from Shortgrass steppe Alex, Nico and Mendy in Glacier National Park Visiting student, Changxing Fu, conducting field work at Konza Praire Mendy and Kate hard at work Big Bluestem (Andropogon gerardii) in flower (photo: Lauren Baur) Bison calves at Konza Prairie Biological Station (photo: Francis Chaves) Francis Chaves’ project means counting 12+ species per plot! (photo: Franics Chaves) Colorful herbivores can be found all over Konza (photo: Lauren Baur) John Dietrich, Whitney Mowll (Knapp Lab), Ava Hoffman, and Jesse Gray hard at work on species composition (photo: Francis Chaves) Butterfly milkweed (Ascelpias tuberosa) earns its name (photo: Lauren Baur) A. gerardii in the greenhouse (photo: Ava Hoffman) B. gracilis at Shortgrass Steppe (photo: Ava Hoffman)