The MSU SpaCE Lab is committed to promoting Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion.
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 Positions on our Opportunities page.

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

​Recent News:

May 2020
  • Check out the MSU NatSci Virtual Event: "Biodiversity" by Phoebe Zarnetske and Elise Zipkin - featuring work by many students and postdocs in the lab!
  • Congratulations to Hazel Anderson for receiving a College of Natural Science Undergraduate Research Award to conduct research on plant and frugivore traits!
  • Congratulations to Dr. Laura Twardochleb for successfully defending her PhD!!! We're so proud of you!
  • ​Welcome to Jasper Van doninck and Jon Knott! Both postdocs join the lab this month to work on our new NSF Macrosystems grant investigating drivers of biodiversity across scales.

April 2020
  • We're excited to welcome Moriah Young and Kara Dobson to the lab in Fall 2020 as incoming PhD students! Both will be working on aspects of climate change effects on ecological communities, with our warmXtrophic experiment.
    • Moriah Young received a NSF GRFP to conduct her PhD research and Kara Dobson received a MSU CNS fellowship (and honorable mention on her NSF GRFP)!
February 2020 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!
Lab Location:
Natural Resources Building
480 Wilson Rd.
East Lansing, MI 48824