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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.