Research and News

June 13, 2023 - IBEEM affiliate Jack Liu's article in National Science Review looks at how events and crises sweep across the globe

May 30, 2023 - IBEEM affiliate Jack Liu leads a key United Nations environmental report on global challenges.

May 11, 2023 - IBEEM affiliate Mariah Meek is part of a team looking to identify, map and preserve climate change refugia, reported in High Country News

May 3, 2023 - IBEEM PI Phoebe Zarnetske and IBEEM affiliate Sarah Fitzpatrick receive seed grants to help launch competitive proposals for significant external resources

April 27, 2023 - IBEEM Co-PI Elise Zipkin named a laureate with the International Recognition of Professional Excellence Prize

April 26, 2023 - IBEEM PI Phoebe Zarnetske and IBEEM affiliate Christopher Klausmeier were co-authors on a study seeking to predict climate change effects better.

April 17, 2023 - An international team including IBEEM affiliate Jianguo "Jack" Liu found that Private landowners in rural Brazil can exempt land from conservation efforts - with consequences.

March 29, 2023 - IBEEM affiliate Jianguo "Jack" Liu is the senior author on a study showing that high-income countries are outpacing low-income countries, possibly slowing improvements in planetary health.

March 28, 2023 - IBEEM Postdoc fellow Kelly Kapsar and IBEEM affiliate Jianguo "Jack" Liu join researchers at the University of Alaska to explore the changes climate is bringing to the Bering Strait region

Feb. 27, 2023 - IBEEM PI Phoebe Zarnetske and IBEEM affiliate Jianguo "Jack" Liu will work on the Continental Scale Biology Committee to identify biological research themes, theory.

Feb. 25, 2023 - IBEEM affiliate Jianguo "Jack" Liu is on the five-year project to develop food system resiliency, funded by USDA's National Institute of Food and Agriculture.

Feb. 6, 2023 - MSU's Long-Term Ecological Research program awarded $7.65 million NSF grant. IBEEM faculty affiliates Nick Haddad and Sarah Evans led the grant proposal, detailing the program’s new focus on climate change and land use change.

Jan. 18, 2023 - IBEEM Co-PI Elize Zipkin, IBEEM affiliate Andrew Finley, and IBEEM postdoc Jeff Doser are teaming up with the National Audubon Society to help protect declining bird populations across North America

Jan. 9, 2023 - An IBEEM Postdoc in Science weighs in about whether species’ adaptations can keep pace with climate change.

Nov. 20, 2022 - IBEEM affiliate Jack Liu led group that found a new and better way using remote sensing to understand where coastal dead zones are and predict changes

Nov. 11, 2022 - IBEEM affiliate program, Kellogg Biological Station, declared a model for its quantifiable commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion

Oct. 10, 2022 - a research team including IBEEM affiliates Nick Haddad and Sarah Fitzpatrick are launching a Midwest Climate Adaptation Science Center to lend a hand to a rare butterfly

Jan. 13, 2023 - IBEEM PI and Director, Phoebe Zarnetske, to help organize a workshop on applying an Earth system science approach to research on climate intervention

Dec. 5, 2022 - IBEEM affiliates in BioScience underscore local adaptation in pathways to second chances when climates change

Nov. 17, 2022 - A research team, including IBEEM affiliate Lars Brudvig, shows how the land's history of being restored shapes the success of conservation efforts

Nov. 8, 2022 - A research team, including IBEEM affiliate Sarah Fitzpatrick, confirm that many harlequin frogs once believed to be extinct are, in fact, persisting

Sept. 21, 2022 - IBEEM affiliate Jianguo "Jack" Liu accepts his Gunnerus Sustainability Science Award in Norway with an address about pandas, people and hope for the future.

Jan. 11, 2023 - A research team, including IBEEM affiliate Mariah Meek, in a journal article, informs how to reach conservation goals in the face of climate change.

Dec. 2, 2022 - IBEEM affiliate Jack Liu along with one of his PhD candidates look at what it takes to protect 30% of the Earth's surface in advance of the international biodiversity conference

Nov. 16, 2022 - IBEEM faculty affiliate, Jack Liu, made 2022's Clarivate Highly-Cited Researchers list

Oct. 31, 2022 - Notes from IBEEM affiliate Kay Holekamp's lab in Kenya: Meet the south clan

Aug. 31, 2022 - A research team including IBEEM affiliate Jack Liu outline how today's catastrophes play out differently in the modern world, with effects often reverberating farther and faster than their historic counterparts

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