In Summer 2018, eleven high school teachers from across the state of Kansas visited Free State Prairie as part of the “Ecosystems of Kansas Summer Institute” (part of the KansasEPSCoR program, funded by a National Science Foundation grant entitled “Microbiomes of Aquatic, Plant, and Soil Systems (MAPS)).  See https://nsfepscor.ku.edu/education/ for details.

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The terrestrial part of the ecosystems institute was led by three KU scientists:

Dr. Peggy Schultz, Environmental Studies Program, Kansas Biological Survey

Dr. Jim Bever, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Department, Kansas Biological Survey

Dr. Helen Alexander, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Department