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Radio Broadcasts & Podcasts:


PRI, Living on Earth, March 15, 2013—Monarch migration 

AAAS Science Podcast, Dec 16, 2011—Monarch genome        

BBC Science in Action, September 25, 2009—Monarch migration

NPR Morning Edition, May 5, 2005—Monarch migration

NPR Morning Edition, May 23, 2003—Monarch migration


Video Broadcasts:


iBiology, December, 2014—Neurobiology of monarch migration
 
Neuron Video Abstract, January 27, 2011—Monarch migration
 


Art inspired by our work:

 
“Migration Grids” is a series of ceramic sculptures by Stanton Hunter centered around the monarch’s use of polarized skylight.
 


Newspapers, Magazines & Blogs:

 
The Christian Science Monitor, "Scientist crack mystery of migrating monarch navigation"
Eve Botkin-Kowackii, April 15, 2016
 
National Geographic, "Migrating Monarch Butterflies use magnetic compass to cut through clouds"
Jane L. Lee, June 24, 2014
 

USA TODAY, "Monarch butterflies use magnetic compass to cut through clouds" Hoai-Tran Bui, June 24, 2014

BBC News, "Butterflies use magnetic compass to fly across America"
James Morgan, June 24, 2014

The Scientist, "A Sense of Mystery"
Dan Cossins, August 1, 2013

Climate Central, "Spring Chill Sends Monarchs Fluttering North"
Lauren Morello, February 21, 2013

New Scientist, "Zoologger: The chilly secret to monarch migration"
Michael Marshall, February 21, 2013

US News & World Report,“Scientist Reveal Monarch Butterfly Genome", November 23, 2011

The New York Times, “Magnetic field senses by gene, study shows”
Nicholas Wade, June 21, 2011

BBC News, “Human eye protein senses Earth's magnetism”
Jason Palmer, June 21, 2011

Wired News (Blog),“Humans Could Have Geomagnetic Sight"
Brandon Keim, June 21, 2011

ScienceDaily, “Brain 'GPS' Illuminated in Migratory Monarch Butterflies”
January 26, 2011

Wired Science, “Butterflies Use Antenna GPS to Guide Migration”
Hadley Leggett, September 24, 2009

Nature News, “Butterflies’ migrational timekeeper found”
Lizzie Buchen, September 24, 2009

BioPhotonics, “Inside a fly's built-in compass”
Hank Hogan, September 2008

The Wall Street Journal, “Using Butterfly Time, We Can Learn Secrets of Our Own 'Clocks'”
Robert Lee Hotz, February 8, 2008

TheScientist, “Clocking monarch migration”
Bob Grant, January 7, 2008

Genome Biology, “Molecular pathways for Monarchs”
Clementine Wallace, May 6, 2005

The Christian Science Monitor, "Butterfly secret revealed"
Mark Sappenfield, May 23, 2003