Lab Positions on our Opportunities page.
I am recruiting:
1) a Summer 2020 undergraduate research opportunity (NSF REU via ICER ACRES REU)
2) a PhD student (Masters student will be considered) interested in the direct and indirect effects of climate change on plant and insect communities.


​Recent Lab News

January 2020 December 2019 October 2019 August 2019 July 2019 June 2019
  • Welcome to Tori Donovan! Tori is a visiting scholar interested in climate change, disturbance and resilience, and is taking part in the Preparing Future Faculty program at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
  • Beth receives a NASA FINESST fellowship!​
May 2019
  • Laura presents her research on continental-scale freshwater insect traits at the Society for Freshwater Science! 
February 2019
  • Our open access Global Ecology and Biogeography paper on connecting Biodiversity & Geodiversity across scales with remote sensing is published online early.
  • Laura presents her research at the MSU FW Graduate Symposium
  • Annie presents her research in the Hanover Forest Science Seminar
January 2019 December 2018
  • Beth receives the Academic Programs Fellowship from KBS! 
  • We helped advance science through research this year! Check out our publications here.
October 2018
  • MSUToday: Laura and her research are featured!
September 2018
  • Welcome to Minali and Erika, MSU Honor's College Professorial Assistants
  • Phoebe attends and presents at the Biotic Dimensions of Climate Refugia Workshop, INRA, France
August 2018
  • ESA in New Orleans: Phoebe presents research on NEON biodiversity and Laura and Tyler present on climate warming effects on predator-prey dynamics.
June 2018​
  • Krymsen and Cameo join the lab as summer REU and SROP students 
​April 2018
  • Press release on our Hemlock Woolly Adelgid research and recent Ecology paper.
  • Quentin gives a talk on Geodiversity and Biodiversity at the IALE meeting in Chicago
March 2018
  • Phoebe gives a plenary talk on 'the future of biotic interactions' at the International Biogeography Society meeting in Portugal
February 2018
  • We publish the first paper using NEON organismal data, in Ecography. Check it out!
  • Check out a recent press release on our Biology Letters paper let by Quentin, with global variation in bird body sizes and climate gradients.
  • Congrats to Laura for best poster award and Beth for honorable mention, oral presentation, at the MSU FW Research Symposium!

and some old news that is still relevant on a daily basis...

June 2014
  • The youngest members of the lab are born - welcome Annika and Zoe!
Contact:
Phoebe Lehmann Zarnetske
Michigan State University
Department of Integrative Biology
288 Farm Lane
East Lansing, MI 48824
plz (at) msu.edu    
517-355-7671
Lab Location:
Natural Resources Building
480 Wilson Rd.
East Lansing, MI 48824
Our Lab is committed to promoting Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion.