Lab Positions on our Opportunities page.
I am recruiting 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

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.
  

  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!

December 2017

• We helped advance science through research this year! Check out our publications here.

November 2017

• Laura presents her research at Kellogg Biological Station and the EEBB Colloquium.
• Congrats to Ethan who received a 2018 CANR Undergraduate Research Assistantship to continue research in our lab. 

October 2017

• John Grady gives a joint Hanover Forest Science and ESPP VISTAS seminar on research with energy equivalence in forests.  

September 2017

• Congrats to Faith and Arpita on their 2nd year Honor's College Professorial Assistantships to continue research in our lab. 

August 2017

• Simone, Jay, Elizabeth, Alex, and Amy present on their summer research at MSU symposia.
• Check out our ESA sessions in Portland:
  • Ignite Session and Evening Session on Remote Sensing to Biodiversity Science in the Anthropocene
  • Quentin speaks on our NEON project in our Organized Oral Session: Challenges and Opportunities for Investigating Ecological Communities Across Space and Time: Insights from Coordinated Research Networks.

May 2017

• Congratulations to Laura Twardochleb on her successful NASA NESSF Graduate Fellowship: "Predicting freshwater biodiversity across scales using measures of land use, climate, and primary productivity." See the KBS write-up here.
• Congrats to Ethan Hiltner who received a 2017 CANR Undergraduate Research Assistantship to conduct research in our lab. 

​April 2017

• Congrats to Kileigh Welshofer on successfully defending her MS Thesis!
• ​Congratulations to Collin Love who was accepted to a Shoals Marine Lab undergraduate summer research position in parasite ecology! Read more about it here.

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 Forestry
480 Wilson Road
East Lansing, MI 48824
plz (at) msu.edu    
517-355-7671