The MSU SpaCE Lab is committed to promoting Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion.

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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

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Resources page: COVID-19; Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion; Mental Health, Work-Life, Funding 

​Recent News:

August 2022

• Welcome to Lala Kounta (MSU African Future Leadership Postdoctoral Fellow) and Casey Youngflesh (MSU EEB Presidential Postdoctoral Fellow).
• Welcome to India Hisrchowitz (Honors College PA student).

June 2022

• Welcome to the field team: Jordan Zapata, Lisa Leonard. 

May 2022

• Congratulations to Kara and Moriah on advancing to PhD candidacy!
• Congratulations to graduating senior Emily Parker! Emily will continue in the lab as a research technician.

December 2021​

• Phoebe gives an invited talk on ecological impacts from solar radiation modification (American Geophysical Union Meeting). 

September 2021

• Welcome back!
  • Welcome to new PhD student Hazel Anderson!
  • Welcome to our new Honors College PA students, Jacklyn Alsbro and Aaron Guggenheimer!

August 2021

• Ecological Society of America Meeting​
  • Beth presents on Frugivoria: An open trait database of birds and mammals exhibiting frugivory in the montane Neotropics 
  • Jasper presents on Combining open NEON and Landsat data to connect biodiversity and disturbance regime
  • Phoebe moderates session on Ecological Impacts of Solar Geoengineering.
• Phoebe starts sabbatical (Lyon, France)

​June/July 2021

• Excellent undergraduate research presentations!
  • KBS Research Symposium: Emily Parker & Kristin Wolford
  • MSU ICER ACRES and Mid-SURE Conference: Chakata Hart 
• Lots of field work at Kellogg Biological Station LTER !!
• New Open Access Papers!
  • ​​Dahlin, Kyla M., Phoebe L. Zarnetske, Quentin D. Read, Laura A. Twardochleb, Aaron G. Kamoske, Kendra Spence Cheruvelil, and Patricia A. Soranno. 2021. Linking Terrestrial and Aquatic Biodiversity to Ecosystem Function Across Scales, Trophic Levels, and Realms. Frontiers in Environmental Science.
  • ​Charney, N.D., S. Record, B.E. Gerstner, C. Merow, P.L. Zarnetske, and B.J. Enquist. 2021. A Test of Species Distribution Model Transferability Across Environmental and Geographic Space for 108 Western North American Tree Species. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution.

May 2021

• Welcome to our new undergraduate researchers and technicians! MSU Emerging Scholar Ashley Ezzo, MSU URAs: Emily Parker, Kristin Wolford; Research technicians: Sarah Johnson, Emerson Wesselhoff!
• Congratulations to our amazing graduating seniors Hazel Anderson, Nellie Chalem, and Kate Kelly!!! 
• Congrats to Moriah and Kara on receiving KBS Summer Research Fellowships!!
• Beth and Hazel present their research at the MSU Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior Symposium!
• New Papers!
  • Congrats to Tori on her new paper in Journal of Mammalogy! Fire-driven landscape heterogeneity shapes habitat selection of bighorn sheep
  • Congrats to Beth on her new paper in Global Ecology and Conservation! Temporal matching of occurrence localities and forest cover data helps improve range estimates and predict climate change vulnerabilities

April 2021

• Erik, Minali, and Hazel present at UURAF! Check out their presentations here:
  • Using species’ traits to improve extinction risk assessments - FIRST PLACE AWARD!!!
  • Using plant and frugivore traits to understand biodiversity across scales and inform conservation
• Check out the new open access paper in PNAS: Potential ecological impacts of climate intervention by reflecting sunlight to cool Earth from Phoebe and colleagues' Climate Intervention Biology Group
  • ​MSU press release, Stony Brook press release, UMN press release, CUNY press release
  • ​CBC's Quirks & Quarks episode
• ​Welcome Hazel to the Integrative Biology and EEB grad program! Hazel will join as a PhD student in our lab this fall to work on geographic patterns and mechanisms of plant traits!
• Phoebe gives a Cary Institute for Ecosystem Studies seminar titled Explaining Patterns of Biodiversity Across Spatial Scales with Traits, Geodiversity, and Disturbance.

March 2021

• Congrats to Chakata on receiving a MSU ICER ACRES REU position with our lab this summer working on Macrosystems Biodiversity and disturbance!
• Congrats to Hazel on receiving a NSF Graduate Research Fellowship and to Kara on her NSF GRF honorable mention!!
• Congrats to Kara on her NRT IMPACTS Fellowship on computational & plant sciences!
• Congrats to Kara and Moriah on receiving KBS LTER Research Grants!
• New website for Phoebe and colleagues' NSF-funded Climate Intervention Biology Working Group!

February 2021

• New article in Frontiers in Ecology & Evolution from the LTER Metacommunities Synthesis Working Group (with Phoebe and Nina) on the importance of long-term data for metacommunity ecology: 
  • Novel Insights to Be Gained From Applying Metacommunity Theory to Long-Term, Spatially Replicated Biodiversity Data
  • Summary article on the LTER Network Website
• Join Phoebe and climate science and ecologist colleagues for a special AAAS session on a hot topic: Biosphere Responses to Geoengineering!
• Check out our new website for the NSF-funded Climate Intervention Biology Working Group: www.ClimateInterventionBiology.org 

January 2021

• Check out our new open-access paper in Global Ecology & Biogeography: "Freshwater insects CONUS: A database of freshwater insect occurrences and traits for the contiguous United States" led by Laura Twardochleb and featuring the lab's first open-access database on freshwater insects!

Past Lab News

SpaCE Lab Location: 405 Natural Science Building