Lab News

December 2020August 2020July 2020June 2020May 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 2020January 2020August 2020July 2020June 2020May 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 2020January 2020December 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!
December 2017
  • We helped advance science through research this year! Check out our publications here.
November 2017 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 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!