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  • Holly Tuten in tick hunting gear

    Hunting a creature that hunts me

    Aug 20, 2021 8:15 am

    INHS vector ecologist Holly Tuten describes her work at "tick ground zero," investigating Heartland virus in Illinois ticks.

  • researcher looking at tray of ice and mosquitoes in a petri dish.

    Starving mosquitoes for science

    Feb 22, 2024 8:00 am

    A behind the scenes look at the Medical Entomology Laboratory at Illinois Nature History Survey and the work of Jiayue (Gabriel) Yan on Aedes aegypti mosquitoes.

  • researcher holding a bird in hand

    Following in the footsteps of early 20th century naturalist Elizabeth Kerr

    Jun 13, 2023 4:15 pm
  • farmer tosses a net into a prawn and rice farm pond

    Learning by listening to the people who live it

    Mar 18, 2024 8:00 am

    Experts from Illinois visit a cooperative prawn and rice farm in Southeast Vietnam to hear the farmers' stories about their challenges and adaptations to a changing climate. 

  • Blue and green-winted teal and northern pintail seen on the Illinois River during an aerial waterfowl inventory over Chautauqua National Wildlife Refuge in Havana.

    Counting ducks from 500 feet above

    Dec 21, 2021 8:15 am

    Josh Osborn has a unique job. The Navy veteran turned ecologist leads the waterfowl aerial inventories from the Illinois Natural History Survey's Forbes Biological Station in Havana. Taking to the skies every autumn and spring during migration seasons, Osborn makes regular educated estimates of the number and types of birds flocking along 212 miles of the Illinois River and 214 miles of the Mississippi River.