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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Lab News!
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October 2024

• Congratulations to Moriah and Kara on their co-first authored Ecology publication, Plant community responses to the individual and interactive effects of warming and herbivory across multiple years! Mark and Phoebe are co-authors.
  • https://esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/ecy.4441
  • Press: What's bugging you? Long-term impacts of warming and herbivory on plant communities
    • ​https://www.kbs.msu.edu/2024/10/kbslter-plant-stress-study/ 
    • https://eeb.msu.edu/news/Long-term-impacts-of-warming-and-insect-herbivory-on-plants.aspx
• National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM) report on a Vision for Continental Scale Biology: Research Across Multiple Scales is released! Phoebe is a co-author.
  • nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/27285/a-vision-for-continental-scale-biology-research-across-multiple-scales

September 2024

• Congratulations to Kara on her successful PhD defense!
• Welcome to Ann, Ava, and Maddie ​who are Honors College Professorial Assistant students joining the lab, working on our avian interaction database project!

July 2024

• Congratulations to Hazel on a successful M.S. Thesis defense! 

April 2024

• Kara and Moriah present their research at the MSU EEB Graduate Student Symposium. 
• Giovanni, Caroline, India, and Emily present their research on the Avian Interaction Database at the 2024 MSU Undergraduate Arts Forum.

February 2024

• ​Lala, Phoebe, and coauthors' poster, Can solar radiation modification mitigate future increases in marine heatwaves? is at the 2024 Ocean Sciences Meeting. 

November 2023

• Welcome to Kelly Kapsar who is joining the lab as a data scientist with IBEEM and as a postdoc with our NEON Macrosystems Biodiversity project!

October 2023

• Phoebe co-leads the Climate Intervention Biology Working Group meeting at the University of Minnesota.

September 2023

• Congrats to Beth on a successful defense of her Ph.D.!
• Kara, Moriah, Phoebe, Mark, and Emily attend the KBS LTER All Scientists Meeting and present research and synthesis projects.
• Phoebe presents her research and participates in a panel for the Rights of Nature conference with the MSU Law School.​​

August 2023

• Kara, Moriah, Phoebe, Hazel, Beth, and Casey all attend ESA in Portland, Oregon to present research!

July 2023

• Adrian, our 2023 KBS REU student presents her research on soil microbial responses to drought and warming at the KBS Undergraduate Research Symposium!

Past Lab News

SpaCE Lab Location: 404 Natural Science Building