WashU Expert: Four factors that drove 2023’s extreme heat
The year 2023 was the hottest in recorded history. WashU professor Michael Wysession explains four factors that drove 2023’s extreme heat and climate disasters — and what this means for the future.
For the birds
Nathan Jacobs leads team that developed BirdSAT, a tool for classification and ecological mapping of global bird species.
Some mosquitoes like it hot
Mosquito heat tolerance varies by population, according to a new study; findings could change estimates of vector-borne disease risk.
Undergraduate Academics and Programs
Washington University in St. Louis offers a variety academic programs, majors, and courses for undergraduate and graduate students.
Climate Curriculum Database
The Climate Curriculum Database is designed to allow students, professors, and others in the WashU community to find courses related to climate change in all of its related disciplines, from economics to architecture to engineering. Each course links to the WebStac course listing, where more information about syllabi, course descriptions and enrollment can be found.
Climate Curricular Guides
Originally compiled by the WashU Climate Change Program, these guides pull climate-related courses into thematic lists to provide interested students with suggested courses that can be taken along any course of study. The Climate Curricular Guides are simply meant to assist students in course selection.
WashU Arboretum
The more than 300 species of trees on the Danforth Campus play a major role in the outdoor architecture as key elements of the campus landscape. The campus canopy is the result of careful planning for the continued success of the local plant community.
St. Louis Policy Initiative
The St. Louis Policy Initiative brings diverse theoretical and methodological perspectives to study policy in our region.
Center for the Environment Kick-Off Week
The center and its partners hosted a week of events celebrating, promoting, and connecting the critical environmental work happening throughout the WashU community and beyond. The kick-off week began on Monday with a science communications Q&A with students and Assembly Series talk by Pulitzer Prize-winning author and journalist Elizabeth Kolbert. The week continued with workshops, […]
Konecky and Climate and Paleoclimate Lab: Tropical monsoons during the Last Glacial Maximum
Research Focus How does Earth’s climate behave during ice ages? How do tropical monsoons react when the planet warms or cools? The peak of the last ice age, or the Last Glacial Maximum (abbreviated as the LGM), was a period of extensive Northern Hemisphere glaciation that took place about 21,000 years ago, when ice sheets […]