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Meet Sam Ko, Tyson Tick Hunter
Meet Sam Ko, Tyson Tick Hunter

Apr 30, 2025

Tyson undergraduate researcher Sam Ko has been studying ticks for the last year of her college career. Her legacy will be confirming the arrival of a tiny invasive species raising big concerns.

Tyson tick expert interviewed on St. Louis Public Radio
Tyson tick expert interviewed on St. Louis Public Radio

Mar 18, 2025

Solny Adalsteinsson, Tyson senior staff scientist, was interviewed on St. Louis on the Air about the first finding of the longhorned tick in St. Louis County.

Tyson scientists contribute to study on mammal activity patterns
Tyson scientists contribute to study on mammal activity patterns

Mar 14, 2025

St. Louis Wildlife Project collaborators Solny Adalsteinsson, Beth Biro, and Whitney Anthonysamy contributed local data to a global study of mammalian temporal activity. Findings published in Science Advances indicate that the timing of daily activities is highly changeable under human environmental impacts.

Invasive longhorned tick discovered at Tyson
Invasive longhorned tick discovered at Tyson

Feb 27, 2025

WashU researchers recently identified the first longhorned tick found in suburban St. Louis County. In concert with Tick Watch STL, the researchers will conduct additional tick investigations in the region.

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New ForestGeo paper advances understanding of global biodiversity patterns

Feb 26, 2025

Jonathan Myers, Professor of Biology and Tyson’s ForestGeo PI, collaborated with 36 investigators across 21 ForestGeo plots to assess aggregation patterns in forests across latitudes.

Tyson welcomes first cohort of TCC interns
Tyson welcomes first cohort of TCC interns

Jan 23, 2025

Starting this past fall semester, Tyson has launched a paid internship program through the Tyson Conservation Corps (TCC). The TCC Internship program seeks to keep WashU undergraduates connected to Tyson’s research, education, and community during the academic year.

Nothin' but pawpaws in the pawpaw patch
Nothin' but pawpaws in the pawpaw patch

Jan 9, 2025

A new study led by WashU graduate student Anna Wassel and her research team at Tyson Research Center uncovers how pawpaw trees upend the typical dynamics of plant competition in forest understories, fostering a habitat that is more random and unpredictable.

Tyson provides drone's-eye view of the flooded Meramec River
Tyson provides drone's-eye view of the flooded Meramec River

Nov 15, 2024

When the Meramec River flooded, students in the "Geospatial Field Methods" course in Arts & Sciences had an opportunity to study a significant regional event in real time.

WashU researchers studying urban heat islands and their impacts on public health
WashU researchers studying urban heat islands and their impacts on public health

Aug 27, 2024

KMOV reporter Nathan Vickers talks to Heather Navarro, director of the Midwest Climate Collaborative, and Kim Medley, director of Tyson Research Center, about the impacts of urban heat islands.

Tyson Research Center gets local high schoolers involved in research
Tyson Research Center gets local high schoolers involved in research

Aug 13, 2024

Launched in 2009, the Tyson Environmental Research Apprenticeship (TERA) program has provided about 200 mentored field research opportunities to high school students from across the St. Louis region. TERA aims to treat high schoolers like undergraduate students, giving them more responsibility than they’ve likely had before and holding them to high expectations.

HEC-TV showcases the St. Louis Wildlife Project
HEC-TV showcases the St. Louis Wildlife Project

Jul 24, 2024

Kathleen Berger, HEC executive producer for science and technology, covered our favorite wildlife monitoring project in Caught on camera! The St. Louis Wildlife Project captures animal diversity and interactions.

WashU Class of 2024: Committed to climate solutions
WashU Class of 2024: Committed to climate solutions

May 3, 2024

Tyson community members Sophia Hatzikos (master’s degree in visual art from the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts) and Carol (Yunfeng) Ge (bachelor’s degree in biology from Arts & Sciences) are celebrated as graduates of the WashU Class of 2024.

Gentrified areas have more urban wildlife
Gentrified areas have more urban wildlife

Apr 23, 2024

Tyson researchers report on how gentrification impacts urban wildlife populations in a new publication in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. This work also shows how gentrification further limits marginalized communities’ opportunity to connect with nature.

Exploring the humanities at Tyson
Exploring the humanities at Tyson

Apr 11, 2024

Learn about the Center for the Humanities’ Redefining Doctoral Education in the Humanities initiative to support innovative, interdisciplinary graduate work and to encourage the next generation of humanities scholars and practitioners.

Tyson Flora Project Catalogs Plant Biodiversity
Tyson Flora Project Catalogs Plant Biodiversity

Mar 19, 2024

Learn about Erin O’Connell and Doug Ladd’s lofty new endeavor: to document and preserve a physical representative of every plant species growing across Tyson Research Center’s 2,000 acres.

Some mosquitoes like it hot
Some mosquitoes like it hot

Jan 8, 2024

Certain populations of mosquitoes are more heat tolerant and better equipped to survive heat waves than others, according to new research from Tyson’s Team Skeet. Former undergraduate fellow Ben Orlinick is the study’s first author.

Audio recordings help ID urban bats
Audio recordings help ID urban bats

Oct 30, 2023

In recent years, WashU researchers working with the St. Louis Wildlife Project have started using acoustic recorders at their wildlife monitoring stations to detect bats for the first time.

Summer 2023: Educational Programming Adapts to New Growth
Summer 2023: Educational Programming Adapts to New Growth

Oct 26, 2023

With a record number of researchers for summer 2023, Tyson staff needed to reimagine the possibilities of the educational programming and make changes to a longstanding structure.

Tyson observatory is WashU's dark sky site
Tyson observatory is WashU's dark sky site

Sep 28, 2023

Amateur astronomers and professionals alike are discovering that it is increasingly difficult to find night sky viewing areas. The Tyson observatory offers local users a one-of-a-kind stargazing experience.

Climate change intensifies impact of urbanization on city-dwelling wildlife
Climate change intensifies impact of urbanization on city-dwelling wildlife

Sep 5, 2023

Leaders of the St. Louis Wildlife Project, along with colleagues across the Urban Wildlife Information Network, recently published research in Nature Ecology & Evolution showing the effects of climate, urbanization, and species traits on wildlife in cities.

Rockwood School District highlights student research at Tyson
Rockwood School District highlights student research at Tyson

Aug 22, 2023

Three TERAs and one Tyson undergraduate fellow were recently highlighted in the Rockwood School District newsletter.

Katie Westby presents at international mosquito conference
Katie Westby presents at international mosquito conference

Apr 26, 2023

In our increasingly globalized world, tackling mosquito-borne disease means engaging in discussion across disciplines as well as regional borders. Last month, Staff Scientist Katie Westby traveled to an international conference to add Tyson research to the conversation.

Obituary: Richard W. Coles, first director of Tyson
Obituary: Richard W. Coles, first director of Tyson

Apr 21, 2023

Richard W. (Dick) Coles, who served as the inaugural director of Tyson and also as an adjunct professor of biology for more than 25 years, died Dec. 10, 2022, in Longmont, Colo. He was 83. A celebration of life is planned for 1 p.m. April 29 at Tyson.

Kaylee Arnold joins Tyson team as LEC postdoc
Kaylee Arnold joins Tyson team as LEC postdoc

Mar 22, 2023

Through a new position as a Living Earth Collaborative postdoctoral research associate, Dr. Kaylee Arnold hopes to combine plant microbiome research with local K-12 outreach.

Tyson researchers awarded seed grants from Taylor Geospatial Institute
Tyson researchers awarded seed grants from Taylor Geospatial Institute

Mar 16, 2023

Tyson researchers Rachel Penczykowski, Kasey Fowler-Finn, and Kim Medley have been awarded seed grants from Taylor Geospatial Institute to conduct research using geospatial technology.

Tysonite Jonathan Myers awarded NSF grant to study chemical ecology and latitudinal tree diversity
Tysonite Jonathan Myers awarded NSF grant to study chemical ecology and latitudinal tree diversity

Mar 16, 2023

Jonathan Myers has been awarded a three year grant from the National Science Foundation with Brian Sedio and Annette Ostling at UT Austin.

Tyson spotted salamanders are on the move
Tyson spotted salamanders are on the move

Mar 7, 2023

Scientists have conducted amphibian surveys at Tyson Research Center for years, but only recently joined a larger research network that is monitoring changes in the timing of major life events, like mass breeding. Read “Secret lives of salamanders” in the WashU Newsroom.

Tysonite Colleen McDermott tells their story for The Story Collider
Tysonite Colleen McDermott tells their story for The Story Collider

Feb 28, 2023

On February 13, Colleen McDermott spoke onstage at St. Louis Public Radio for The Story Collider. Here, they reflect on their experience and the power of storytelling in science.

Tysonite Rachel Penczykowski wins prestigious NSF CAREER award
Tysonite Rachel Penczykowski wins prestigious NSF CAREER award

Jan 30, 2023

This highly sought-after NSF award is reserved for early career faculty who excel at mentoring while successfully integrating research and education. Through the TERA program, the award will provide paid internships to high school students who will work on the project with Rachel and her research team.

Apply for the 2023 Tyson Undergraduate Fellows Program
Apply for the 2023 Tyson Undergraduate Fellows Program

Jan 27, 2023

The Tyson Undergraduate Fellows Program provides college students the chance to work elbow-to-elbow with a mentor on current environmental research projects. Applications for summer 2023 are due February 15. Read perspectives from some of last year’s undergraduate fellows!

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