Forest Park Living Lab is understanding racoon ecology in urban land through GPS tracking and how this work informs One Health programs.
Bridging movement ecology and public health through One Health (Links to an external site)
Category: Undergraduate
Spores in the city: Why some plant diseases thrive in urban environments (Links to an external site)
Assistant professor of biology, Rachel Penczykowski and 5 WashU graduate and undergraduate students tracked infestations of powdery mildew on 22 sites in the Saint Louis area.
Beyond the lab: squirrels, urban landscapes, and the joy of research (Links to an external site)
Elizabeth Carlen and two of her undergraduate researchers work to bring science outside the walls of WashU.
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.
WashU great ape, biodiversity research informs decision to expand Congolese park (Links to an external site)
This month, the Republic of Congo agreed to protect a 36-square-mile area called Djéké Triangle by making it part of the adjacent Nouabalé-Ndoki National Park. Biodiversity research led by St. Louis scientists helped inform the decision to include the Djéké Triangle in the existing national park.
The space between us (Links to an external site)
Missouri Ozarks study by WashU narrows in on spatial aspects of biodiversity, homogenization threat to forest ecosystems
Male dragonflies lose their ‘bling’ in hotter climates (Links to an external site)
New research led by post-doc Michael Moore and in collaboration with LEC Biodiversity Fellows, Kim Medley and Kasey Fowler-Finn, and several WashU undergraduate students reveals that male dragonfly wing patterns are changing in response to warming temperatures.
Rooted in St. Louis: The Elizabeth Danforth Butterfly Garden (Links to an external site)
The Elizabeth “Ibby” Danforth Butterfly Garden began as a service project of the Washington University Women’s Club in 1996, to honor the eponymous wife of former chancellor William Danforth.