Lab Positions on our Opportunities page.
I am recruiting:
1) a Postdoc to join a newly funded NSF Macrosystems grant #1926567 
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

August 2019

• Check out our new paper led by Franziska Schrodt in PNAS on the importance of geodiversity in addition to biodiversity.
• Annie and Nina present their research on disturbance detection and joint distribution modeling at the Ecological Society of America Meeting in Louisville, KY.
• Phoebe, Annie, and Beth present research on geodiversity, biodiversity, and functional traits at the International Biogeography Society Meeting in Quito, Ecuador.

July 2019

• 2 NSF grants are funded!! 
  • NSF Macrosystems Biology: "Local- to continental-scale drivers of biodiversity across NEON" NSF DEB #1926567
  • NSF Workshop: "Workshop on ecological impacts of solar radiation management geoengineering" NSF DEB #1937699

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

• Check out our Science paper on marine predator diversity, led by John Grady, including this Science Perspective, and example press: The Atlantic, EurekaAlert
• Our Ecography paper on trait variation across NEON is now open access! - check out our related paper on sizes, niches, and latitudinal diversity gradients in Teaching Issues and Experiments in Ecology.
• Welcome to Emma, MSU Lyman Briggs student research assistant!

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

Our Lab is committed to promoting Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion.