Sarah Diamond, an assistant professor in biology at Case Western Reserve University, has been awarded a National Science Foundation (NSF) Early Career Development (CAREER) grant for her research on the movements of butterflies across the Midwest. She conducted her work with the help from “citizen scientists.” Among the people including Diamond will continue to work with on her research are CWRU undergraduate students.
“Species are on the move, appearing in places they never used to be and disappearing from areas where they once were common,” Diamond wrote in her grant application. While many butterfly species are moving toward the poles or up mountains, some do not and “ecologists are trying to understand these differences.”