Archived News

• In December 2019, The Crone lab hosted a workshop on Species Interactions and Shifting Phenologies, with researchers attending from Tufts, University of Georgia, Montana State University, and Washington State.
• Collin Edwards has joined the lab as a Post Doc
• Eric Scott has joined the lab as a PhD
• James Michielini has joined the lab as a Post Bacc
• Natalie Kerr has successfully defended her PhD thesis. Congratulations, Nat!
• James Michielini has successfully defended his senior honors thesis. Congratulations, James!
• Elizabeth has been recognized by Representative Ayanna Pressley for receiving NSF funding to investigate the rapid decline in western monarchs.
• The Source-Sink Project Team has been honored with a SERDP 2018 Project of the Year Award for Resource Conservation and Resiliency.
• Atticus Murphy has joined the lab as a PhD
• Genevieve Pugesek passed her qualifying exam, yay!
• Rachel Bonoan has joined the lab as a Post Doc
• Nick Dorian starts his PhD in the Crone lab
• June Arriens has joined the lab as a Post Bacc
• Robert Bosso has joined the lab as the new Lab Manager
• Lee Browne and Norah Warchola have re-joined the lab as a Research Associates
• Xianfeng Yi has joined the lab as a Visiting Scholar.
• Elizabeth was inducted into the Finnish Academy of Science and Letters.
• PhD candidate Natalie Kerr passed her qualifying exam, congrats!
• Undergraduate Lauren Redosh co-authors a paper on mouse population cycles published in Ecology and Evolution
• Finnish PhD student Kirsi Alahuhta visits lab for two weeks in October 2016
• PhD student Michał Bogdziewicz's paper on the effects of nitrogen on masting in red oaks is published in Journal of Ecology
• Elizabeth and collaborators Lee Brown and Cheryl Schultz win a SERDP award to study butterfly population dynamics and conservation
• Former undergraduate Nick Dorian wins best poster at SCCS-NY 2016
• Elizabeth gives a talk at a BIRS theoretical ecology workshop titled, "Combining models and data to set guidelines for butterfly conservation"
• Postdoc Norah Warchola begins teaching classes at Tufts University as a part-time instructor
• PhD student Natalie Kerr attends EVODEMO conference in Washington D.C. and presents a poster on her work with optimal body size in bumble bee workers
• Nick Dorian and Lauren Redosh both successfully defend their undergraduate honors theses
• PhD student Genevieve Pugesek and another Tufts Biology graduate student win a Wendy and Neil Sandler International Research Program grant to conduct research on pollinators on coffee farms in Costa Rica
• Elizabeth and collaborator Neal Williams' paper on modeling bumble bee population dynamics is published in Ecology Letters

Lab in the Media

• CREATE Solutions for a Changing World (2021)
• Climate change to blame for monarch butterfly's recent decline (2021)
• Scientists Try to Save Migratory Western Monarch Butterflies as a Mystery Unfolds (2021)
• Recent Decline of the Monarch Butterfly Linked to Climate Change (2021)
• More Year-round Monarchs than Migrants (2021)
• Resident Monarch Populations on the Rise in California: What Does this Mean for the Western Migratory Population? (2021)
• Tufts Earns Bee-Friendly Certification (2020)
• Tufts Biologists Find Virtual Ways to Study the Outdoors (2020)
• Tufts University becomes first urban Bee Campus USA in Massachusetts (2020)
• Scientists look to public to help migratory monarch butterflies bounce back (2020)
• What’s Happening to the Monarch Butterfly Population? (2020)
• When Fires Burn on the Prairie, Coneflowers Bloom More Often (2020)
• Tufts Gains Pollinator-Friendly Status (2020)
• Will Monarch Butterflies Bounce Back? (2020)
• A Prairie Flower That Flourishes With Fire (2020)
• Elizabeth Crone and the Declining Western Monarchs (2020)
• Thanksgiving Count Shows Western Monarchs Need Our Help More than Ever (2020)
• Elizabeth Crone: 'Why Are Monarchs Declining in the West?' (2020)
• Urban areas offer surprisingly useful ‘stepping stones’ for at-risk species (2019)
• Can good enough be better than great? (2019)
• These Super Rare Butterflies Thrive on Army Bases. The U.S. Military is Helping Them (2019)
• Study on Weed Killers and Monarch Butterflies Spurs Ecological Flap (2019)
• The Number of Monarch Butterflies in Western North America Is Plummeting (2017)
• West Coast monarchs face steep decline (2017)
• Monarchs in western U.S. risk extinction, scientists say (2017)
• Monarch butterflies are disappearing, but they may be saved (2017)
• Western monarchs have dropped 97% in 35 years (2017)
• Can the Maple Syrup Industry Weather the Effects of Climate Change? (2017)
• You're the Expert (NPR science-comedy podcast): Butterflies (2017)
• What's the best way to improve bee habitat? (2016)
• Sap to Syrup (2016)
• Combining Models and Data to Set Guidelines for Butterfly Conservation (2016, video)
• The Butterfly Effect (2015)
• Molly and the Checkerspot (2015, video)
• The Bloom Is On for Maple Syrup (2015)
• Whitebark Pine Trees: Is Their Future at Risk? (2013)
• Massachusetts butterfly communities (2012)
• Effects of landscape and climate change on butterflies: Can simple models predict population responses (2012, video)
• Butterfly Habitat in Massachusetts (2012, video)