-
The Damschen Plant Community Ecology Lab in the Department of Integrative Biology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison is accepting applications for 1-2 Ph.D. student positions that will start in fall 2024. Our lab seeks to understand the impact of local and regional processes on plant community composition and diversity within the context of global change
-
Written by Michelle A. Homann, Posted November 2025 One of the priorities that the Damschen Lab shares with the Midwest Climate Adaptation Science Center (CASC) is ensuring that our research is both applicable and accessible to land managers, stakeholders, and the public. We were recently invited to participate in a symposium at the Midwest Climate
-
The Damschen Lab is looking for a motivated, organized, and enthusiastic undergraduate science major with an interest in botany, ecology, or conservation biology to fill a lead research technician opening. The Damschen Lab focuses on global change impacts and plant communities from grassland and savanna ecosystems, including Wisconsin and the southeastern U.S. In particular, our
-
Damschen Lab Ph.D. Position in Plant Community Assembly The Damschen Plant Community Ecology Lab in the Department of Integrative Biology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison is accepting applications for 1 Ph.D. student that will start in Fall 2026. Overall, our lab seeks to understand the impact of local and regional processes on plant community composition
-
Written by Michelle Homann Posted April 2025 This past winter, we only had two snow events that were substantial enough to apply snow reduction and addition treatments out at Mounds View Grassland. This is where we study tallgrass prairie plant community responses to snow depth in collaboration with the Midwest Climate Adaptation Science Center. Lily
-
We seek to fill two (2) NSF Research Experience for Undergraduate (REU) positions at the Savannah River Site (SRS) Corridor Experiment (near New Ellenton, South Carolina) for projects investigating the role of corridors on insect and plant ecology in the summer of 2025. Students will work directly with Thomas Smith (University of Wisconsin, based at
-
Written by Michelle Homann Posted February 2025 Over the summer, members of the Damschen lab completed our first full field season supported by Climate Adaptation Science Center (CASC) funding. Aside from our annual plant community composition surveys, we focused on seedling survival for underrepresented prairie plant species during the spring and summer months. Our goal
-
Damschen Lab Summer Research Technician positions available! Plant Ecology in a Changing Landscape The Damschen Lab in the Integrative Biology Department at the University of Wisconsin-Madison is now accepting applications for full-time field/lab assistant positions to begin around June 1st, 2025, or earlier, and continue through the summer. All positions listed below are based in
-
The Damschen Lab in the Integrative Biology Department at the University of Wisconsin-Madison is now accepting applications for a full-time Research Manager to implement a new community assembly and restoration distributed experiment that will evaluate the effects of seed trait variability, provenancing, and species composition on community assembly in tallgrass prairies. The position involves site
-
Damschen Lab Ph.D. Position in Plant Community Assembly The Damschen Plant Community Ecology Lab in the Department of Integrative Biology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison is accepting applications for 1 Ph.D. student that will start in Fall 2025. Overall, our lab seeks to understand the impact of local and regional processes on plant community composition
-
Let the field season begin! Fieldwork is a year-round undertaking in the Damschen lab’s long-term experiment in a restored tallgrass prairie at Mounds View Grassland in Iowa County, Wisconsin, where we shovel snow in the winter, prepare for prescribed burns in spring and fall, and collect prairie plant community data in the summer. The lab
-
Subscribe
Subscribed
Already have a WordPress.com account? Log in now.
Damschen Research Lab 