During our summer field season, we host presentations on a variety of environmental topics. We aim to provide a casual forum for local and national researchers to speak to our St. Louis-based community and to foster camaraderie and collaboration.
Thank you for joining us at Tyson during Summer 2024!
We look forward to seeing you at our community events next summer!
Tyson Summer Research Symposium and Dinner
THURSDAY, AUGUST 1, 2:00-5:00 PM
Poster presentations by our undergraduate fellows and high school apprentices will describe their summer research experiences. We are also welcoming poster presentations from undergraduate summer interns with WashU’s Center for the Environment and Office of Sustainability. Please meet us behind the research lab.
The symposium will be followed by a catered community dinner at the Living Learning Center.
Tyson Environmental Conference and Dinner
Living Learning Center
FRIDAY, JULY 12, 1:00-5:00 PM
1:00-1:30 pm Refreshments and Networking
1:30-2:10 pm Presentations
Spatial and temporal variation of drought vulnerability in urban and natural forests
Christine Rollinson
Forest Ecology Lab, Morton Arboretum
Tyson Host: Forest Biodiversity Team
Re-kindling old flames: Density-dependent effects of fire in fragmented plant populations
Jared Beck
Negaunee Institute for Plant Conservation Science and Action, Chicago Botanic Garden
Tyson Host: Pawpaw Patrol
2:10-2:30 pm Refreshments and Networking
2:30-3:10 pm Presentations
Are plants that flower early in the growing season vulnerable to false springs?
Jessica Savage
Institute of the Environment, University of Minnesota-Duluth
Tyson Host: Team Flora
Characterizing the role of temperature on vector-virus interactions
Rachel Fay
Department of Biology, Stanford University
Tyson Host: Team Skeet
3:10-3:30 pm Refreshments and Networking
3:30-4:10 pm Presentations
Historic breeding practices contribute to germplasm divergence in leaf specialized metabolism and ecophysiology in cultivated sunflower (Helianthus annuus)
Jordan Dowell
Department of Biological Sciences, Louisiana State University
Tyson Host: Plant Disease Team
How place based research puts the human in environmental humanities
Flannery Burke
Department of American Studies, Saint Louis University
Tyson Host: Team Humans
4:10-5:00 pm Dinner
Tyson Research Showcase
and Dinner
THURSDAY, MAY 30, 2:00-5:00 PM
Tyson-based research teams will give overviews of their summer 2024 projects.
The showcase will be followed by a catered community dinner and celebration of the start of Pride Month in June.
4:00 pm Dinner
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