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Washington University's Tyson Research Center

Tyson's mission is to provide a living landscape for environmental research and education as a component of Washington University's International Center for Advanced Renewal Energy and Sustainability (I-CARES). Tyson provides:

• A landscape-scale experimental venue for studies on ecosystem sustainability
• A 2,000 acre outdoor laboratory for important research and teaching opportunities from Washington University and other nearby institutions
• Research and educational opportunities for undergraduate and graduate students related to the environment and sustainability

Featured Research and Development

Nutrient Network

The Nutrient Network is a consortium of more than 40 grassland sites around the globe implementing identical experimental procedures in order to understand the separate and combined influence of nutrients and consumers on grassland ecosystem processes. Drs. John Orrock and Ellen Damschen are spearheading a Nutrient Network site at Tyson, placing research at our site in the context of a broader international effort to understand how global change alters the structure of ecosystems.

News and Events

• TERF Symposium

  Tyson Research Center has partnered with the National Science Foundation and Shaw Nature Reserve (a division of the Missouri Botanical Garden) on a project entitled Making Natural Connections: an Authentic Field Research Collaboration. As part of this project, 17 high school students from throughout the St. Louis area completed a one-month fellowship at Tyson during the summer of 2009. These students recently put on a symposium to highlight the research they did this summer and more than 70 people came to Tyson to learn about their work. We congratulate these students and mentors for all the hard work they put into everything. learn more.
  
  

  Living learning Center News

  An excellent article about the new Living Learning Center at Tyson Research Center has made it into the Journal of Green Building. The authors are Dan Hellmuth, of Hellmuth-Bicknesse Architects, and Tyson's own Dr. Kevin Smith and Dr. Jon Chase among others. It is titled Biology and Building-The Living Learning Center at Washington University's Tyson Research Center. The article goes over all the planning, hurdles and hard work that went into making that building exist. It also talks extensively about many of the buildings complex systems such as the rainwater filtration system and the composting toilet. Read it now. It is reprinted by permission of the Journal of Green Building.

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