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.
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.
Apr 21, 2022
WashU and the Living Earth Collaborative are part of a new Missouri-based conservation initiative led by the Saint Louis Zoo. Working with the Endangered Wolf Center and Tyson, scientists are looking to answer ecological and health-related questions about canids — red foxes, gray foxes and coyotes — as well as bobcats, which live in close association with canids.
Aug 18, 2021
In Global Change Biology, recent research from the Urban Wildlife Information Network explores how mammal diversity varies with economic factors and urban intensity. Tyson scientists Solny Adalsteinsson and Beth Biro, and collaborator Whitney Anthonysamy, contributed to this large-scale effort to understand patterns of wildlife species in urban areas.
In this report, we celebrate the work of our students, staff, and faculty over the last year by highlighting some key accomplishments and presenting stories on individual successes.
During the 2018-2019 academic year, investigators from 16 Washington University departments and 28 institutions conducted research at Tyson. Our education programs —integrated into our research activities—supported more than 30 high school and undergraduate researchers.
