Current Research Projects - Department of Ecology

Montane meadow

The following research projects are now completed:

GRG Grassland

Iowa Monarch Conservation Consortium
The Grand River Grasslands research was featured in the May/June 2014 issue of Iowa Outdoors magazine.
Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture research on the complex role of tall fescue in grassland systems
Patch-burn grazing approaches to grassland restoration. See the Leopold Center video summarizing the patch-burn grazing project
Restoring prairie habitats that have incurred biodiversity loss.
For a book describing my research on this topics see "The Prairie Builders: Reconstructing America's Lost Grasslands" by

Sneed Collard

I was a Co-PI on an NSF ADVANCE grant for Institutional Transformation. This project focused on improving the recruitment and retention of women in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) fields at Iowa State University. ISU ADVANCE Program

Current and Previous Research Projects