Grassland community & landscape ecology

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Tales from the lab

2 February 2020 – I’m accepting applications for a MS student to work on machine learning and pollinator ecology. More details here.

15 December 2019 – Our USDA NIFA Pollinator Health proposal was funded! We’ll be using machine learning to automate bee identification from images and video. I’m really excited about this collaborative effort.

17 November 2019 – Off to STL for EntSoc to talk about using machine learning to automate bee identification from images

17 July 2019 – Headed to UC Davis for the 2019 International Conference on Pollinator Biology Health and Policy

1 March 2019 – Our grassland bee paper is highlighted on the cover of EcoApps!

5 Sept 2018 – New paper in Ecological Applications! Bee response to grassland harvesting depends on nesting guild. This was the product of a great collaboration between the Gratton lab at UW-Madison and the Issacs lab MSU.

1 Sept 2018 – I’m excited to be joining the Entomology Department at Kansas State University as a Research Assistant Professor. Hello Manhattan!

23 July 2018 – Our USDA CIG proposal was accepted. In collaboration with Ebony Murrell at the Land Institute and Tania Kim at K-State, we will look at how border crops affect pollinators and predators .

11 Jan 2018 – USDA NIFA/AFRI proposal funded! I will be collaborating with Claudio Gratton and Tania Kim to examine how spatiotemporal variability in prey affects predator dynamics in Wisconsin landscapes.

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Brian J Spiesman, PhD
Research Assistant Professor

bspiesman@ksu.edu

Office: 205 Waters Hall Annex
Lab: 237 Waters Hall
Department of Entomology
Kansas State University
Manhattan, KS 66506

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