Jun 15, 2026
Inside a World War II-era bunker at Tyson Research Center, preserved birds, handwritten logs and mold-covered artifacts tell a story of science, stewardship and changing times.
Kathleen Dobbs publishes senior thesis research
A Rest Stop for the Winged: Bird Banding at Tyson
May 20, 2025
Deep in the heart of the 2,000 acres of Tyson Research Center, as the early morning light filters through the trees, a dedicated team of bird banders is hard at work. Their mission? To track and study migratory birds, contributing to broader research on bird populations and conservation.
Meet Sam Ko, Tyson Tick Hunter
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
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
New ForestGeo paper advances understanding of global biodiversity patterns
Tyson welcomes first cohort of TCC interns
Nothin' but pawpaws in the pawpaw patch
Tyson provides drone's-eye view of the flooded Meramec River
WashU researchers studying urban heat islands and their impacts on public health
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
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
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
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
Tyson Flora Project Catalogs Plant Biodiversity
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.
