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.
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.
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.
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.
