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: Urban Biodiversity
How gentrification impacts urban wildlife populations (Links to an external site)
Researchers from Washington University in St. Louis and University of Health Sciences and Pharmacy in St. Louis (UHSP) contributed to a national study that identifies how gentrified parts of a city have notably more urban wildlife than ungentrified parts of the same city.
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.
Not-so-spooky sounds: Audio recordings help ID urban bats (Links to an external site)
WashU researchers at Tyson Research Center use acoustic recorders to detect bats.
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)
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.
Squirrels and the city (Links to an external site)
Elizabeth Carlen is a postdoctoral fellow with the Living Earth Collaborative at Washington University in St. Louis. She is studying how city life is changing the local populations of eastern gray squirrels (Sciurus carolinensis).
Event: Conservation Conversations (Links to an external site)
Episode 4: The wonders of urban wildlife (Links to an external site)
National Geographic Explorer Danielle Lee reveals the incredible array of wildlife often hiding in plain sight in our cities. Her other mission? As a Black scientist, she wants to open the door for others to join the field.
From pigeon stalker to squirrel chaser: Elizabeth Carlen studies urban wildlife in St. Louis (Links to an external site)
Meet Elizabeth Carlen, a Living Earth Collaborative postdoc and NSF postdoctoral fellow working in the Losos lab at Washington University
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.
Caught on camera (Links to an external site)
Wildlife of greater St. Louis area comes into focus in new biodiversity project. The St. Louis Wildlife Project is a collaboration between St. Louis College of Pharmacy and the Tyson Research Center at Washington University in St. Louis. The project aims to quantify biodiversity and improve the understanding of wildlife ecology in the greater St. Louis area.