Matthew Hufford, associate professor of ecology, evolution and organismal biology, has been awarded the Cassling Family Professorship by Iowa State University’s College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.

AMES, Iowa – A recent ecosystem modeling study conducted by Iowa State University scientists shows how crop production in the United States has led to an increase in the emissions of nitrous oxide, a potent greenhouse gas, throughout the last century.
 

The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) is honoring six Iowa State University researchers for their work in biology, statistics and physics.

Katherine Gross honored with Distinguished Alumni Award

Iowa State University graduate students Colton Poore, left, and Erika Ibarra-Garibay were surprised to find a rusty patched bumble bee earlier this spring in Frederiksen Court on campus. The bee species was placed on the endangered species list in January 2017.

Lynn Clark named interim chair of the Department of Ecology, Evolution and Organismal Biology

 Iowa State University has named Lynn Clark interim chair of the Department of Ecology, Evolution and Organismal Biology (EEOB). Clark, a professor of botany, begins her one-year term on June 16. The department is co-administered by the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences and the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences. 

In the world's effort to cut greenhouse gas emissions, the source of our food is coming into the spotlight. There's good reason for that: Agriculture accounts for 16 to 27% of human-caused climate-warming emissions. But much of these emissions are not from carbon dioxide, that familiar climate change villain. They're from another gas altogether: nitrous oxide (N2O).

Lu recognized for achievements in research

Dr. Chaoqun (Crystal) Lu, from the Ecology, Evolution, and Organismal Biology Department is recognized by the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences for their extraordinary achievements in research.

Wendel receives ICAC Research of the Year Award 2021

Dr. Jonathan Wendel is a recipient of the International Cotton Advisory Committee (ICAC) Researcher of the Year Award for 2021.

The 2021 Rossmann Manatt Faculty Development Award has been presented to Amy Toth, associate professor of ecology, evolution and organismal biology and entomology at Iowa State University.

The award, announced March 22 during the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences’ virtual Faculty and Staff Awards ceremony, recognizes a tenured faculty member who has demonstrated an exceptional level of creativity and productivity in scholarship, teaching and service and who shows great promise continuing such achievement.

Peiyu Cao is one of the fourteen Iowa State University students to be selected to receive $140,000 in Brown Graduate Fellowship Program funding to support strategic university research over the next year. Peiyu’s research focuses on the assessment of the nitrogen budget within agricultural systems through data synthesis and empirical and process-based modeling. This work has served as a solid basis for crop yield estimation, environmental consequence analysis, and economic assessment, and will benefit a broad community far beyond ecosystem modelers.

AMES, Iowa – Climate change doesn’t affect every species equally.

Even among species that share the same habitat, some organisms adapt more readily than others to environmental fluctuations wrought by climate change. This realization has led biologists to try to predict which species are most vulnerable to climate change.

Celebrating the Ada Hayden Herbarium’s 150th Anniversary

The novel technique is great news for Guam’s brown tree snakes, bad news for the island’s nesting birds.

A few heavy storms cause a big chunk of nitrogen pollution from Midwest farms

Some effects of extreme weather are visible – like half a million acres of flattened corn in Iowa left behind after a derecho that hit the Midwestern United States on Aug. 10.