Department News
George Kling
- Robert G. Wetzel Collegiate Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
- Ph.D., Duke University, 1988
Contact information
- University of Michigan
1041 Kraus Natural Science Building
830 North University
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1048 - Phone: (734) 647-0894
- Lab: (734) 647-0898
- Fax: (734) 763-0544
- Email: gwk@umich.edu
Fields of study
Ecosystem ecology and aquatic biogeochemistry
Academic background
Dr. Kling received his Ph.D. degree from Duke University in 1988, and was a postdoctoral fellow at The Ecosystems Center of the Marine Biological Lab in Woods Hole from 1988-1991. He received a National Academy of Sciences Young Investigator Award in 1993, became a National Science Foundation Presidential Faculty Fellow in 1995, and was elected as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 1997.
Graduate student
Jasmine Crumsey, Jason Dobkowski, Benjamin Miller
UM affiliation
- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Research feature
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Ancient carbon trapped in Arctic permafrost is extremely sensitive to sunlight and, if exposed to the surface when long-frozen soils melt and collapse, can release climate-warming carbon dioxide gas into the atmosphere much faster than previously thought.
Benjamin Miller, an EEB master’s student, has been awarded an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship.
The National Science Foundation has renewed Professor George Kling’s Long Term Research in Environmental Biology grant.
