Faculty at WashU follow the natural world for inspiration and ideas for innovative and “wild” solutions.
Inspired by nature (Links to an external site)
Category: FPLL
Fran – the goose who knows her road signs! (Links to an external site)
Meet Fran, a Canada Goose fitted a GPS collar as part of the Forest Park Living Lab project. From Forest Park to Fairground Park and across the Mississippi to East Saint Louis, Fran is moving through the green spaces and waterways of the St. Louis region.
Coyotes Silver and Solar logged hundreds of miles crisscrossing St. Louis (Links to an external site)
Researchers with the Forest Park Living Lab say that the home ranges of both Silver, a male coyote, and Solar, a female coyote with pups, were typical for urban coyotes.
Researchers hoped to track two coyotes in St. Louis for a year. The animals didn’t make it. (Links to an external site)
Forest Park Living Lab researchers aimed to track two coyotes for a year to study their behavior and movement patterns. Unfortunately, the animals did not survive.
Bridging movement ecology and public health through One Health (Links to an external site)
Forest Park Living Lab is understanding racoon ecology in urban land through GPS tracking and how this work informs One Health programs.
Scientists track red-tailed hawks nesting near WashU campus (Links to an external site)
Researchers from the Forest Park Living Lab Project including LEC post-doc Stella Uiterwaal are conducting bird surveys to understand where and when birds like the red-tailed hawks can be found in Forest Park
Fred: a goose on a mission (Links to an external site)
Meet Fred, the Canada goose, that has been fitted with a satellite tracking tag as part of the Forest Park Living Lab project which was funded by a LEC Seed grant.
St. Louis groups hope to inspire students to become scientists through ‘living lab’ (Links to an external site)
Forest Park Living Lab partners with Gateway to the Great Outdoors (GGO) to bring St. Louis metro students from low income schools to get more students interested in science, nature, and ecology.
Into the forest (Links to an external site)
With its host of top-rated attractions and miles of bike paths and running trails, Forest Park has enticed generations of WashU community members to step outside the university’s campuses and explore. Today, students and faculty are venturing deeper into the woods to learn about the biodiversity that teems there and to highlight the connectedness between the natural and the human.
Forest Park Living Lab (Links to an external site)
Forest Park Living Lab is collaborative of six different partners: the Saint Louis Zoo, Washington University, St. Louis University, Forest Park Forever, the World Bird Sanctuary and the National Great Rivers Research and Education Center, where researchers from around the St. Louis area are tracking animals and trying to learn more about them and how they’re adapting to the urban area around the park.
How GPS tracking is helping expand our understanding of Forest Park (Links to an external site)
Learn about the Forest Park Living Lab project that started with LEC Seed grant monies. Experts in wildlife ecology, animal movement and veterinary medicine joined forces in a landmark collaboration to enhance how we understand Forest Park.
Forest Park Living Lab (Links to an external site)
St. Louis scientists including LEC postdoctoral fellow, Stella Uiterwaal, collaborate on new study of wildlife in one of America’s greatest urban parks called the Forest Park Living Lab. The Forest Park Living Lab received a LEC seed grant in 2022.