Past Lab News
(for recent Lab News click here)
December 2021
April 2020
April 2020
and some old news that is still relevant on a daily basis...
June 2014
- Phoebe gives an invited talk on ecological impacts from solar radiation modification (American Geophysical Union Meeting).
- Welcome back!
- Welcome to new PhD student Hazel Anderson!
- Welcome to our new Honors College PA students, Jacklyn Alsbro and Aaron Guggenheimer!
- Ecological Society of America Meeting
- Beth presents on Frugivoria: An open trait database of birds and mammals exhibiting frugivory in the montane Neotropics
- Jasper presents on Combining open NEON and Landsat data to connect biodiversity and disturbance regime
- Phoebe moderates session on Ecological Impacts of Solar Geoengineering.
- Phoebe starts sabbatical (Lyon, France)
- Excellent undergraduate research presentations!
- KBS Research Symposium: Emily Parker & Kristin Wolford
- MSU ICER ACRES and Mid-SURE Conference: Chakata Hart
- Lots of field work at Kellogg Biological Station LTER !!
- New Open Access Papers!
- Dahlin, Kyla M., Phoebe L. Zarnetske, Quentin D. Read, Laura A. Twardochleb, Aaron G. Kamoske, Kendra Spence Cheruvelil, and Patricia A. Soranno. 2021. Linking Terrestrial and Aquatic Biodiversity to Ecosystem Function Across Scales, Trophic Levels, and Realms. Frontiers in Environmental Science.
- Charney, N.D., S. Record, B.E. Gerstner, C. Merow, P.L. Zarnetske, and B.J. Enquist. 2021. A Test of Species Distribution Model Transferability Across Environmental and Geographic Space for 108 Western North American Tree Species. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution.
- Welcome to our new undergraduate researchers and technicians! MSU Emerging Scholar Ashley Ezzo, MSU URAs: Emily Parker, Kristin Wolford; Research technicians: Sarah Johnson, Emerson Wesselhoff!
- Congratulations to our amazing graduating seniors Hazel Anderson, Nellie Chalem, and Kate Kelly!!!
- Congrats to Moriah and Kara on receiving KBS Summer Research Fellowships!!
- Beth and Hazel present their research at the MSU Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior Symposium!
- New Papers!
- Congrats to Tori on her new paper in Journal of Mammalogy! Fire-driven landscape heterogeneity shapes habitat selection of bighorn sheep
- Congrats to Beth on her new paper in Global Ecology and Conservation! Temporal matching of occurrence localities and forest cover data helps improve range estimates and predict climate change vulnerabilities
- Erik, Minali, and Hazel present at UURAF! Check out their presentations here:
- Check out the new open access paper in PNAS: Potential ecological impacts of climate intervention by reflecting sunlight to cool Earth from Phoebe and colleagues' Climate Intervention Biology Group
- Welcome Hazel to the Integrative Biology and EEB grad program! Hazel will join as a PhD student in our lab this fall to work on geographic patterns and mechanisms of plant traits!
- Phoebe gives a Cary Institute for Ecosystem Studies seminar titled Explaining Patterns of Biodiversity Across Spatial Scales with Traits, Geodiversity, and Disturbance.
- Congrats to Chakata on receiving a MSU ICER ACRES REU position with our lab this summer working on Macrosystems Biodiversity and disturbance!
- Congrats to Hazel on receiving a NSF Graduate Research Fellowship and to Kara on her NSF GRF honorable mention!!
- Congrats to Kara on her NRT IMPACTS Fellowship on computational & plant sciences!
- Congrats to Kara and Moriah on receiving KBS LTER Research Grants!
- New website for Phoebe and colleagues' NSF-funded Climate Intervention Biology Working Group!
- New article in Frontiers in Ecology & Evolution from the LTER Metacommunities Synthesis Working Group (with Phoebe and Nina) on the importance of long-term data for metacommunity ecology:
- Join Phoebe and climate science and ecologist colleagues for a special AAAS session on a hot topic: Biosphere Responses to Geoengineering!
- Check out our new website for the NSF-funded Climate Intervention Biology Working Group: www.ClimateInterventionBiology.org
- Check out our new open-access paper in Global Ecology & Biogeography: "Freshwater insects CONUS: A database of freshwater insect occurrences and traits for the contiguous United States" led by Laura Twardochleb and featuring the lab's first open-access database on freshwater insects!
- We're attending the 2020 American Geophysical Union meeting virtually! Check out our presentations:
- 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."
- 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).
- MSU NatSci Press Release on our Macrosystems research grant: MSU Integrative Biologist Utilizes NEON to Illuminate Biodiversity
- 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)!
- 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
- 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!
- 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."
- 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).
- MSU NatSci Press Release on our Macrosystems research grant: MSU Integrative Biologist Utilizes NEON to Illuminate Biodiversity
- 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)!
- 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
- 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!
- Check out our new paper! Nina and Phoebe co-author a new paper in Ecography on Multi-Species Distribution Modeling.
- The NEON Science Summit is happening!
- 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.
- 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
- 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!
- Laura presents her research on continental-scale freshwater insect traits at the Society for Freshwater Science!
- 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
- 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!
- Beth receives the Academic Programs Fellowship from KBS!
- We helped advance science through research this year! Check out our publications here.
- MSUToday: Laura and her research are featured!
- 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
- ESA in New Orleans: Phoebe presents research on NEON biodiversity and Laura and Tyler present on climate warming effects on predator-prey dynamics.
- Krymsen and Cameo join the lab as summer REU and SROP students
- 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
- Phoebe gives a plenary talk on 'the future of biotic interactions' at the International Biogeography Society meeting in Portugal
- 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!
- We helped advance science through research this year! Check out our publications here.
- 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.
- John Grady gives a joint Hanover Forest Science and ESPP VISTAS seminar on research with energy equivalence in forests.
- Congrats to Faith and Arpita on their 2nd year Honor's College Professorial Assistantships to continue research in our lab.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
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!
