Ryan Helcoski
Ryan Helcoski is pursuing his PhD at Utah State University where he works with an international team studying the ecological impacts of terrestrial megacarcasses in South Africa. At UPR, he primarily reports on discoveries and ongoing research in the life and earth sciences.
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Part two of the series, "Tindleve ta Ndlopfu," or "Elephant Ears" we follow Utah State University scientist and UPR reporter Ryan Helcoski and his team into Kruger National Park, South Africa, as they search for a elephant carcasses. -
Elephants in South Africa repeatedly visit the carcasses of other elephants and move the bones around. Researchers at Kruger National Park are working to understand this mysterious behavior. -
1K, a celebrated California Condor born in Southern Utah, has passed away at 5 years old due to preventable lead poisoning. This is the second instance of lead poisoning that had affected 1K. -
Two Utah State University researchers, one of them UPR’s own Ryan Helcoski, published a paper in which they describe eleven new species of wasp native to Arizona. However, this is just a few of the many thousands of undescribed wasp species at USU alone. -
The field of ecology doesn’t just refer to wildlife and wildlands. An associate professor at California State University studies how humans have transformed ecosystems in urban areas over time. -
The dusky grouse was only reclassified as a separate species from another kind of grouse in 2006. A Utah State University researcher is working to fill in that knowledge gap. -
Forty years ago, USU's Intermountain Herbarium relocated to a basement for a 9-12 month stay. They're still there, and the basement is flooded — threatening hundreds of thousands of native plants. -
A Utah State University ecological researcher is teaming up with USU engineers to learn more about the spread of an invasive insect that is devastating native fir tree forests. -
Public lands are for everybody, but how long these lands can be used, and how that use may impact wildlife, depends on the attitudes of those who visit them. -
Utah State University's annual Small Satellite Conference draws researchers from across the globe. We talked to three scientists about their projects.
