Author Archives for Jessa Watters

Jack Chlebanowski Biography

April 3, 2023 4:16 pm Published by Comments Off on Jack Chlebanowski Biography

My name is Jack Chlebanowski, I am an undergraduate sophomore majoring in Paleontology. My goal is to graduate and go to graduate school to study vertebrate paleontology...


Trinity Cordy Biography

April 3, 2023 4:12 pm Published by Comments Off on Trinity Cordy Biography

Trinity is a biology major from Frisco, TX. She is a undergraduate student at the University of Oklahoma. Some of her interests and hobbies include animals, with...


Sydney Phan Biography

February 10, 2023 4:58 pm Published by Comments Off on Sydney Phan Biography

My name is Sydney Phan. I am an undergraduate senior at the University of Oklahoma majoring in Biology. My goal after school is to attend graduate school...


Xavi Molina Biography

February 10, 2023 4:48 pm Published by Comments Off on Xavi Molina Biography

Hi I’m Xavissa (Xavi) Molina from Belize! I enjoy mostly anything related to biology. By a very interesting stroke of luck, I worked with crocodiles in Placencia,...


OK Amphibian Disease Citizen Science Program Results

January 6, 2023 8:46 pm Published by Comments Off on OK Amphibian Disease Citizen Science Program Results

Global amphibian populations are declining rapidly, due largely to infectious diseases such as chytridiomycosis caused by the fungal pathogen Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis (Bd). The Herpetolo18gy Department at the...


Oklahoma Infectious Disease Citizen Science Project

December 13, 2022 9:35 am Published by Comments Off on Oklahoma Infectious Disease Citizen Science Project

Have you ever wanted to be a scientist? Or help a scientist make new discoveries? Join the Herpetology Department of the Sam Noble Museum in a brand-new citizen...


New phylogenetic inference methodology

September 21, 2022 3:48 pm Published by Comments Off on New phylogenetic inference methodology

Many processes of biological diversification can simultaneously affect multiple evolu- tionary lineages. Examples include multiple members of a gene family diverging when a region of a chromosome...


Emma Franklin Biography

September 14, 2022 4:26 pm Published by Comments Off on Emma Franklin Biography

Emma Franklin is an undergraduate student at the University of Oklahoma majoring in Biology with a minor in German. She was admitted to OU with the hope...


Sibuyan Island, Philippines herpetological diversity

September 13, 2022 3:59 pm Published by Comments Off on Sibuyan Island, Philippines herpetological diversity

Despite multiple recent field studies, herpetological species diversity of the Romblon Island Group in the central Phil- ippines—particularly Sibuyan Island—has remained underestimated. Recently, we investigated the diversity...


3D visualization methods

September 13, 2022 3:49 pm Published by Comments Off on 3D visualization methods

The study of biological form is a vital goal of evolutionary biology and functional morphology. We review an emerging set of methods that allow scientists to create...