Jane Breckinridge - Euchee Butterfly Farm & Tribal Alliance for Pollinators Listen to the Podcast! We have had a bit of a podcast hiatus because things got busy for Angelina and Priscilla as things started to open up after the winter COVID lockdown. I am embarrassed to say [...]
Turkey Vulture - Cathartes aura This week, it’s time to give a big shout out to the often unloved and underappreciated Turkey Vulture. With its gnarly bald head and spectral 6-foot wingspan, the Turkey Vulture may seem rather unsavory at first glance. But look past their warty eyes and straight through their gaping nostrils [...]
Culinary Fennel - Foeniculum vulgare By Alvesgaspar - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=15855012 The species of the week is Foeniculum vulgare, also commonly called fennel. This herb that may show up in your salad has a long, varied history. It was used as medicine in Egypt and ancient China. During the [...]
Purple Passion Flower - Passiflora incarnata The species of the week is the Purple Passion Flower, Passiflora incarnata. Most Passion Flowers originate from South America with large flowers that bloom during springtime. When traveling through South America, Spanish missionaries labeled this unique-looking flower as the “Flor de las cinco lagas” or the flower of [...]
Lesser Prairie Chicken - Tympanuchus pallidicinctus The Lesser Prairie Chicken is an artist; the vanishing short grass prairie is his stage. He’s definitely in the underground music scene. You would never recognize his nondescript hang out unless you were a Lesser Prairie Chicken. A slightly raised area with minimal vegetation is his ancestral dancing [...]
Meet the Experts - Crys Davis, bryologist In this "Meet the Expert" Episode, I chat with our BioBlitz! OK moss expert, Crys Davis. We talk about how amazing mosses are, what we love most about BioBlitz!OK, and how her super rugged wheelchair allows her to explore nature and have a fun BioBlitz! experience. [...]
Meelyn Mayank Pandit - Ph.D. Candidate, University of Oklahoma Pronouns: he/him/his Race/ethnicity that you identify with: Asian - Southeast Asian (Indian) Where were you born and where did you grow up? I was born in Alabama and raised in Indiana. Education: 4th year of Ph.D. program in Biology Dream Job: To become a [...]
Luis Cueto - Ph.D. student, University of Oklahoma Pronouns: he/him Race/ethnicity that you identify with: Hispanic Where were you born and where did you grow up? I was born in a small town in the south of Peru called Cuajone. I grew up in Arequipa, which is a city near the Atacama Desert in [...]
New Podcast Episode This week our podcast transports us out of this snowy winter and back into warm summer days of buzzing bees and flowers filled with nectar. In this "Meet the Expert" episode Priscilla chats with bee expert José Montalva. You would never guess that a being on the college free diving [...]
Josh Anadu - senior undergrad, Oklahoma State University Pronouns: he/him/his Race/ethnicity that you identify with: Black Where were you born and where did you grow up? I was born in Lagos, Nigeria. I grew up in Houston, Texas. Education: Senior, Environmental Science, Oklahoma State University Dream Job: Principal Investigator studying extreme environment microbial ecology [...]
