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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June 2023

• Phoebe, as IBEEM Director and PI, leads a scientific team to redefine scientific exploration and compete for the $10 million XPRIZE Rainforest as part of the team ACT NOW Amazonas Action Alliance.
• Welcome to Adrian Noecker, our 2023 KBS REU student working on soil microbial and plant responses to climate change at the Kellogg Biological Station!
• New paper in Ecology is out: Diversity–stability relationships across organism groups and ecosystem types become decoupled across spatial scales, with co-authors Phoebe, Annie, and Nina is out! 

May 2023

• Congratulations to Beth, Pat, and Phoebe on the open access paper in Global Ecology & Biogeography, Frugivoria: A trait database for birds and mammals exhibiting frugivory across contiguous Neotropical moist forests​ and accompanying open database in EDI!
  • ​Press release: Supersized fruit eater database on climate change frontline​​
• ​Congratulations to Phoebe and Lala on a successful EEB Seed Grant Proposal to study climate change and climate intervention risk to marine systems!

April 2023

• Phoebe presents a collaborative performance with composer Lyn Goeringer: "Potentialities I and 2", contrasting the potential impacts of climate change on biodiversity, according to different emissions scenarios. The performance occurred during the MSU Science Festival as part of the Falling Tree Collaborative.
  • video available on PBS!
• Congratulations to Kara on her MSU Collections Fellowship!
• Congratulations to Moriah on her KBS Research Fellowship!

February 2023

• Congrats to Laura, Chris Klausmeier and Phoebe on their publication in Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Life-history responses to temperature and seasonality mediate ectotherm consumer–resource dynamics under climate warming. 
  • Nice write-up from NatSci here: Mixing theory, observation to envision warmer world

January 2023

• Phoebe speaks on biodiversity & geodiversity at the Royal Society Geodiversity Meeting.
• Phoebe serves on 2 National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM) Committees: (1) Research at Multiple Scales: A Vision for Continental Scale Biology; (2) Climate Intervention in an Earth Systems Science Framework: A Workshop​. Media releases:
  • ​​Zarnetske to serve on National Academies committee
  • Two MSU scholars to serve on prestigious National Academies committee​

November 2022

• New paper in Nature Ecology & Evolution is out: Consistent stabilizing effects of biodiversity across spatial scales and environmental gradients with Phoebe and other members of the NEON Biodiversity project as co-authors.
  • ​Press: Nature Ecology and Evolution Behind the Paper, NEON Observatory Blog

August 2022

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

July 2022

• ​Multiple papers out in the Ecosphere Special Issue from the NEON Biodiversity group co-led by Phoebe and Sydne Record, from the 2019 NEON Science Summit: 
  • Standardized NEON organismal data for biodiversity research. 
  • Community stability is related to animal diversity change. 

June 2022

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

May 2022

• New collaboration with the MSU ERSAM lab: paper in Global Ecology and Biogeography: Towards mapping biodiversity from above: Can fusing lidar and hyperspectral remote sensing predict taxonomic, functional, and phylogenetic tree diversity in temperate forests? with Quentin and Phoebe co-authors.
  • Press: NEON Observatory Blog
• 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.
• Congrats to Hazel on the MSU Collections Summer Fellowship!

Past Lab News

SpaCE Lab Location: 405 Natural Science Building