outreach – Dunlap Cognitive Ecology Lab

Introducing our work with Green House Venture

Aimee and George have been busy with a new collaboration with Green House Venture, a nonprofit in St. Louis focused on education, STEM, and agriculture.

Or here from STL|NPR: UMSL study will investigate pollinator activity at a roadside garden

Or watch this video, where we were featured on Living St. Louis on Nine PBS and where Aimee does an impression of a bumblebee grooming pollen off of itself while flying:

How Do Bees Behave Near Highways? | Living St. Louis

outreach, research

It is Cicada Time!

A 13 year periodical cicada emergence is underway in St. Louis! UMSL Biology Assistant Professor Sara Miller and History Professor Andrew Hurley have joined forces with Aimee Dunlap to study how this cicada emergence is influenced by current and historic patterns of land use in St. Louis.

Not everyone is as excited by the cicada emergence as we are, but we have been happy to talk to the press in our efforts to recruit members of the community to help us collect data.

STL|PR joined Sara and Aimee in the field at Lafayette Square Park and we joined them in the studio to talk about cicadas and the why insects are so cool. And Aimee was interviewed by the St. Louis Post Dispatch.

We are looking forward to the analysis phase of this project!

outreach, research

New WIRED article on urban bees and our orchard project

Fun to read this article today on urban pollination and the need to support bees. There are some great quotes from collaborators Gerardo Camilo, Ed Spevak, and Dean Gunderson from SeedSTL (as well as from lab PI Aimee Dunlap).

Grad student George Todd is working on this project along with Jordan Hathaway from the Muchhala Lab and a great group of undergrads.

https://www.wired.com/story/cities-need-more-native-bees-lots-and-lots-of-adorable-bees/