Meet the team
Solny Adalsteinsson, PhD
Principal Investigator
Senior Scientist, Tyson Research Center
Research & Conservation Project Coordinator 2022-
Co-leader, Team Flora 2023
Living Earth Collaborative Postdoctoral Fellow, Co-mentored with Rachel Penczykowski & Danielle Lee
Olivia
Ciolino, BS
Research field technician 2024 -
Undergraduate Researcher & Technician 2022 -
Tyson Undergraduate Research Fellow 2022
Joey Kizior, BS
Research field crew leader 2024 -
Undergraduate Researcher, Brown University 2023 -
Tyson Undergraduate Research Fellow 2023
Lab Alumni
Undergraduate Researcher 2022 - 2023
Tyson Undergraduate Research Fellow 2023
Tyson Environmental Research Apprentice 2021, 2022
Tyson Undergraduate Research Fellow 2023
Undergraduate Researcher & Technician 2021-2022
Tyson Undergraduate Fellow 2020, 2021
Research Technician/Lab manager 2020-2022
Former Tyson Undergraduate Fellow 2019
Currently: Project Scientist at TriLeaf Corporation
Living Earth Collaborative Postdoctoral Fellow
Currently: Applied Ecologist at San Francisco Estuary Institute
Undergraduate Researcher & Technician 2022-2023
Tyson Undergraduate Research Fellow 2022
Currently: Research Technician, Drexel University
Tyson Undergraduate Research Fellow 2022
Tyson Undergraduate Research Fellow 2022
Tyson Environmental Research Apprentice (High School program) 2021
Tyson Environmental Research Apprentice (High school program) 2021
Tyson Environmental Research Apprentice (High school program) 2021
Undergraduate Researcher 2021 - 2022
Tyson Undergraduate Research Fellow 2021
Undergraduate Researcher 2021-2022
Tyson Undergraduate Research Fellow 2020, 2021
Tyson Undergraduate Research Fellow 2021
Tyson Undergraduate Research Fellow 2020, 2021
Tyson Environmental Research Apprentice (High School program) 2019
Currently: Undergraduate at Cornell University
Tyson Undergraduate Research Fellow 2020
Currently: Undergraduate student at McKendree University
Tyson Undergraduate Research Fellow 2020
Tyson Undergraduate Fellow 2018, 2019
NIH NIDDK Intern 2019
Saint Louis University McNair Scholar
Currently: PhD student at University of Illinois
Ecology Technician/Lab manager 2019
Currently: Harris County Public Health Mosquito and Vector Control Division
Tyson Undergraduate Fellow 2019
Tyson Research Fellow 2019
Currently: MS student
Tyson Environmental Research Apprentice (High School program) 2019
Currently: Tyson research technician, Mosquito team
Hanna Peterman
Student Coordinator for the Tyson Conservation Corps 2019
Undergraduate Research Assistant 2018
Tyson Undergraduate Fellow 2017
Currently: Wildlands Engineering
Lab manager & research technician 2018
Tyson Undergraduate Fellow 2017
Tyson Undergraduate Fellow 2018
Tyson Undergraduate Fellow 2018
Tyson Environmental Research Apprentice (High School program) 2018
Tyson Environmental Research Apprentice (High School program) 2018
Thomas Van Horn
Undergraduate Researcher 2017-2018
Tyson Undergraduate Fellow 2015-2016
Currently: Student at WashU Medical School
Aaron Heisey
Tyson Undergraduate Fellow 2017
National Great Rivers Research and Education Intern 2017
Leslie Sterling
Tyson Undergraduate Fellow 2017
*Portrait-style photos and profiles were taken by undergraduate research fellows as part of a project led by Susan Flowers and Dr. Suzanne Loui profiling the Humans of Tyson Research Center.
