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Lab News

December 2020
  • We're attending the 2020 American Geophysical Union meeting virtually! Check out our presentations:
    • Jasper Van doninck: B072-06 - Explaining patterns of biodiversity across spatial scales with improved detection and attribution of disturbances
    • Kyla Dahlin: B070-02 - Mapping dimensions of biodiversity in forested ecosystems with lidar and imaging spectroscopy fusion
August 2020
  • We're attending the 2020 Ecological Society of America meeting virtually! Check out our lab members' presentations: Jon Knott, Jasper Van doninck, Phoebe Zarnetske. 
  • Laura's Ecology paper is online! Foraging strategy mediates ectotherm predator–prey responses to climate warming. And this cool video of predator-prey dynamics in a warming world.
    • ​NatSci Press Release: "Under climate change, good things come to bugs who wait."  
July 2020
  • We've launched our Macrosystems Biodiversity website featuring research related to the NSF Macrosystems research on ecological observation networks, including the National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON).
    • ​https://neon-biodiversity.github.io/​
June 2020
  • MSU NatSci Press Release on our Macrosystems research grant: MSU Integrative Biologist Utilizes NEON to Illuminate Biodiversity
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!
    • Watch Laura's PhD seminar!
  • ​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
  • Watch our Video on understanding and protecting biodiversity, highlighting Phoebe and the SpaCE Lab's research with current and past lab members featured!
  • MSU Today and NatSci Press Release on Global Ecology & Biogeography: Beyond counts and averages: Relating geodiversity to dimensions of biodiversity
January 2020
  • See our new paper out in Global Ecology & Biogeography: Beyond counts and averages: Relating geodiversity to dimensions of biodiversity led by Quentin!
  • New NEON blog post on our Macrosystems Biology research!​
August 2020
  • We're attending the 2020 Ecological Society of America meeting virtually! Check out our lab members' presentations: Jon Knott, Jasper Van doninck, Phoebe Zarnetske. 
  • Laura's Ecology paper is online! Foraging strategy mediates ectotherm predator–prey responses to climate warming. And this cool video of predator-prey dynamics in a warming world.
    • ​NatSci Press Release: "Under climate change, good things come to bugs who wait."  
July 2020
  • We've launched our Macrosystems Biodiversity website featuring research related to the NSF Macrosystems research on ecological observation networks, including the National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON).
    • ​https://neon-biodiversity.github.io/​
June 2020
  • MSU NatSci Press Release on our Macrosystems research grant: MSU Integrative Biologist Utilizes NEON to Illuminate Biodiversity
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!
    • Watch Laura's PhD seminar!
  • ​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
  • Watch our Video on understanding and protecting biodiversity, highlighting Phoebe and the SpaCE Lab's research with current and past lab members featured!
  • MSU Today and NatSci Press Release on Global Ecology & Biogeography: Beyond counts and averages: Relating geodiversity to dimensions of biodiversity
January 2020
  • See our new paper out in Global Ecology & Biogeography: Beyond counts and averages: Relating geodiversity to dimensions of biodiversity led by Quentin!
  • New NEON blog post on our Macrosystems Biology research!​
December 2019
  • Check out our new paper! Nina and Phoebe co-author a new paper in Ecography on Multi-Species Distribution Modeling.
October 2019
  • The NEON Science Summit is happening!
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!
December 2017
  • We helped advance science through research this year! Check out our publications here.
November 2017
  • Laura presents her research at Kellogg Biological Station and the EEBB Colloquium.
  • Congrats to Ethan who received a 2018 CANR Undergraduate Research Assistantship to continue research in our lab. 
October 2017
  • John Grady gives a joint Hanover Forest Science and ESPP VISTAS seminar on research with energy equivalence in forests.  
September 2017
  • Congrats to Faith and Arpita on their 2nd year Honor's College Professorial Assistantships to continue research in our lab. 
August 2017
  • Simone, Jay, Elizabeth, Alex, and Amy present on their summer research at MSU symposia.
  • Check out our ESA sessions in Portland:
    • Ignite Session and Evening Session on Remote Sensing to Biodiversity Science in the Anthropocene
    • Quentin speaks on our NEON project in our Organized Oral Session: Challenges and Opportunities for Investigating Ecological Communities Across Space and Time: Insights from Coordinated Research Networks.
May 2017
  • Congratulations to Laura Twardochleb on her successful NASA NESSF Graduate Fellowship: "Predicting freshwater biodiversity across scales using measures of land use, climate, and primary productivity." See the KBS write-up here.
  • Congrats to Ethan Hiltner who received a 2017 CANR Undergraduate Research Assistantship to conduct research in our lab. 
​April 2017
  • Congrats to Kileigh Welshofer on successfully defending her MS Thesis!
  • ​Congratulations to Collin Love who was accepted to a Shoals Marine Lab undergraduate summer research position in parasite ecology! Read more about it here.
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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!
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