Four easy tips for preparing a field experiment (Part I)

by Sara Colom, graduate student in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of Michigan Preparing a successful field project can be boiled down into two major themes, a good experimental design and organization of time and materials. To keep things short and sweet I will go over the experimental design here…

Rain dance for science

By Sara Colom, a University of Michigan graduate student in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology The summer of 2017 was a tough year for plants, it was very hot and very dry. Plants not adapted to hot and dry conditions suffered stunted growth, low fertility and premature death, assuming that they managed to…