Summer Day Camps

Follow the trail in a high-tech scavenger hunt, get muddy while learning about wetland creatures, dig for fossils, launch a rocket, or solve a mystery at the museum in our one-day Summer Science Camps. Now enrolling for June 2009!

Field Notes

Scientists at KU's Biodiversity Institute are blogging about their research from the field. Home to about 60 graduate students and 30 research scientists and curators, research takes place on all seven continents in areas such as entomology, paleontology and more.

Visit the Field Notes blog today!

The Life of the Planet

Visit our interactive video presentation showcasing current research by Biodiversity Institute scientists.

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Ecological Forecasting in the Central Plains

The three-year National Science Foundation (NSF) award will link researchers at KU, Kansas State University, and Fort Hays State University in a study of changes occurring in the climate, land-use, biogeochemistry, hydrology and biodiversity along the Kansas Rvier Basin.

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