Congratulations to members of our summer research team on their poster presentations (listed below) at the Tyson Summer Research Symposium!
- Golde Umlas – Summer Undergraduate Research Guided Experience (SURGE) Program & Living Earth Collabative (LEC) Summer Undergraduate Researcher, WashU: Why do some introduced plants dominate over others? How drought and soil microbes impact native and introduced Plantago species
- Grace Wereley-Bross – Tyson Undergraduate Fellow, WashU: Ailanthus altissima dispersal and implications for Lycorma delicatula control (poster)
- Louis Paese – Tyson Undergraduate Fellow, University of Vermont: Does prescribed fire affect ant-mediated seed dispersal in oak-history forests?
- Marlie Duggin – Tyson Environmental Research Apprenticeship (TERA) Program, Maplewood Richmond Heights High School: Does the decomposition of the herbaceous plant layer impact existing overstory growth in deciduous forests? (poster)
- Rachel Derner – Tyson Undergraduate Fellow, University of Missouri-Columbia: Decline in oak (Quercus spp.) recruitment in a Missouri oak-hickory forest: 40 years of change (poster)
- Sienna Staten – Tyson Environmental Research Apprenticeship (TERA) Program, Kirkwood High School: The effect of slope aspect on tree mortality with prescribed fire (poster)
- Stella Parker – Tyson Undergraduate Fellow, WashU: The plant nextdoor: Exploring neighborhood level interactions of bush honeysuckle (Lonicera maackii) (poster)
Photo: Rachel Derner (Tyson Undergraduate Fellow, University of Missouri-Columbia), Carly Ramacher (Research Technician), and Jonathan at Rachel’s poster presentation.