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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Aug 22, 2023

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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!

Dec 1, 2022

Tyson Undergraduate Fellow Colleen McDermott presented a talk on the “Humans of Tyson” project during the 2022 Kansas and Missouri Environmental Education Conference, held Nov. 4-5 in Kansas City. They also presented a poster on the ArcGIS StoryMap-based interactive project about the summer 2022 Tyson community.

Nov 28, 2022

Sam Ko and Dev Mukundan had all expenses covered to attend the SEEDS leadership meeting held at the Arizona Institute for Resilient Environments & Societies. Sponsored by Tyson, SEEDS STL is the St. Louis chapter of the Ecological Society of America’s Strategies for Ecology Education, Diversity, and Sustainability Program.

Nov 8, 2022

Congratulations to our colleagues in WashU Marketing & Communication! The video “Our world by degrees: In search of refuge” highlights research at Tyson Research Center and at the Missouri Botanical Garden.

Nov 3, 2022

Tyson forest ecologist and WashU PhD candidate Anna Wassel is the current focus of the Smithsonian ForestGEO Spotlight Series. Learn about her career journey and how Tyson has played a role.

Oct 4, 2022
Three recent publications from the Tyson mosquito lab explore the range of the invasive Aedes albopictus across the St. Louis urbanization gradient.

Aug 11, 2022

Tysonite and Living Earth Collaborative postdoctoral fellow Liz Carlen is studying how city life is changing the local populations of eastern gray squirrels (Sciurus carolinensis).

May 31, 2022

Previously a member of Jonathan Myers’ Forest Biodiversity Team, Jacqueline Reu is first author on research published in the journal Ecology. The study determined that tree beta diversity matters more for ecosystem functioning than other components of biodiversity at larger scales.

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.