Brian Spiesman
Assistant Professor and Head of the Pollinator Ecology Lab at K-State
From the Pacific Northwest, Brian did his graduate work in Florida studying the landscape ecology of plants and their pollinators. For his postdoc, Brian studied how pollinator communities respond to land cover change in Wisconsin agroecosystems. He is now working on pollinator ecology and conservation in Kansas prairies while developing new technology to identify and monitor native bees using computer vision.
-Photo by Lucas Boland
Graduate Students
Dani Holthaus
Dani is a MS student studying the ecology and distribution of North American bumble bees.
Heather Poyner
Heather is a MS student studying the network ecology and conservation of grassland pollinators.
Sadika Shaik
Sadika is a MS student studying data analytics and working on BeeMachine data workflows.
Undergraduate Students
Max Contreras
Melody Hudson
Makay Davis
INSECT ECOLOGY LAB @ K-STATE
Dr. Tania Kim
We are close collaborators withthe Kim Eco Lab, led by Tania Kim. They study plant-insect interactions and the movement ecology of beneficial species.
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