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Tufts Pollinator Initiative Western Monarch Mystery Challenge
September 2022
- Leslie Spencer has joined the lab as a research assistant.
August 2022
- The Google Foundation has agreed to provide funding in support of our on-going collaborative research efforts with Washington State University on western monarch butterflies.
- Genevieve Pugesek has joined the lab as a post-doc.
June 2021
- Jenny Pugesek has successfully defended her PhD thesis, entitled “The cryptic life cycle stages of bumble bees: using natural history to guide conservation.”May 2021
- Collin Edward has been awarded the E.C. Pielou Award for his talk at the August 2020 meeting of the Ecological Society of America.
April 2021
- The Phenology project team's presentation at the 2021 Spring In Progress Review was well-received by the SERDP-ESTCP Technical Committee.
February 2021
- Our lab is participating in the Western Monarch Mystery Challenge community science campaign.
September 2020
- Lee Brown has been appointed to a faculty position in the Tufts Environmental Studies Program.
- James Michielini has joined the lab as a PhD
August 2020
- Our lab has received a grant from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Great Lakes Restoration Initiative to study the Great Lakes nesting ecology of the rusty patch bumblebee.
- Rachel Bonoan has accepted a tenure-track Assistant Professor position in the Biology Department at Providence College.
- Sylvie Finn has joined the lab as a PhD
June 2020
- The Tufts Data Intensive Studies Center (DISC) has awarded a seed grant to Collin Edwards, Elizabeth Crone, and Benjamin Wolfe to work on community analyses of microbiomes.
May 2020
- The Tufts Climate, Renewable Energy, Agriculture, Technology, and Ecology (CREATE) Solutions group has awarded a seed grant to Atticus Murphy and Elizabeth Crone to write a synthesis of current research into pollinator habitat in the human-dominated landscapes of the 21st century.
March 2020
- Jenny Pugesek placed first for 15 Minute Talks at the Graduate Research Symposium.
January 2020
- Collin Edwards was awarded an Honorable Mention for the best postdoc talk at the American Society of Naturalists meeting.