Lab Members Receive KBS LTER 2023-24 Fellowship

May 1, 2023

KBS LTER 2023-24 Fellowship Recipients

With support from the MSU Graduate School and the National Science Foundation, each year the KBS LTER
program awards MSU students fellowships to further our research of the ecology of agricultural landscapes.
Congratulations to all awardees, and thank you to all those who applied. We had a fantastic pool of excellent
and diverse proposals. Ten funded proposals from ten Fellows represented six Departments and the College
of Agriculture and Natural Resources, the College of Natural Science, and the College of Engineering!

Fellowship Recipients:
• DeShae Dillard; Entomology – Functional diversity and community composition of Diptera in
agroecosystems
• Juliana Hanle; Earth and Environmental Sciences – Can synthetic aperture radar remotely identify
climate-smart management and crop yield?
• Jincheng Huang; Fisheries and Wildlife, Center for Systems Integration and Sustainability – The impacts
of COVID-19 on global agricultural landscapes and biodiversity
• Nan Jia; Fisheries and Wildlife, Center for Systems Integration and Sustainability – Climate change
drives crop-weed competition shifts and threatens future food security
• Tvisha Martin; Plant, Soil and Microbial Sciences – Can soil food webs recover from drought? Assessing
nematode communities within rain exclusion shelters that vary in drought intensity
• Prateek Sharma; Earth and Environmental Sciences – Understanding the major drivers for N2O
dynamics under different management systems
• Goutham Thotakuri; Plant, Soil and Microbial Sciences – Effects of water stress on soil pore structure in
plant systems of contrasting biological diversity
• Ethan Weinrich; Plant, Soil and Microbial Sciences – Bioassay for detecting the coupled effects of cover
crop species and AMF on soil phosphorus acquisition from disparate soils
• Moriah Young; Integrative Biology – Uncovering short- and long-term temporal changes of an early
successional field’s soil microbial community affected by climate warming and drought
• Zheng Li; Civil and Environmental Engineering – Examining the microorganisms assimilating carbon
from 1,4-dioxane in contaminated and uncontaminated soil sediments

For more information on the KBS LTER fellowships, including how to apply, links to past awardees and
commonly asked questions, please visit: https://lter.kbs.msu.edu/get-involved/grants-and-fellowships/
Curious about the research experiences and results of past awardees? Check out our KBS LTER blog page at:
https://lter.kbs.msu.edu/blog/