Phoebe L. Zarnetske is a community ecologist and associate professor at Michigan State University.
[2] Her work focuses on the ecological and evolutionary mechanisms that shape natural communities across multiple spatial scales.
[1][6] In 2013, Zarnetske joined Michigan State University, and was promoted to associate professor in the Department of Integrative Biology in 2020.
[1] Zarnetske research interests center on examining how ecological communities respond to climate change and invasive species.
[10][11] Zarnetske and Jessica Gurevitch lead the Climate Intervention Biology Working Group which gathers scientists working at the intersection of climate research and ecology, and in 2021 Zarnetske led a publication in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences presenting knowledge gaps on the ecological impacts of Stratospheric aerosol injection on the natural world.