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Tulsa Woman Kicks off Retirement from Cricket-filled Career with ... Cricket Surveys

Peggy Hill, professor emerita with the University of Tulsa, may be recently retired, but that hasn’t stopped her from studying nature - especially the nature of crickets - or from contributing to science.

Fishing Out the Flies...Mayflies & Caddisflies

Team effort studies sensitive aquatic mayflies and caddisflies.

Oklahoma Lakes Surveyed for Invasive Plants

Priscilla Crawford, conservation biologist for the Oklahoma Biological Survey, has visited more than 100 lakes in her hunt for invasive plants.

Surveyors Savor Sweet Success in Study of Scarce Salamanders

Less than an inch of rain fell on October 9, but it was enough to prompt 196 salamanders to emerge from their underground homes and embark on their annual journey.

Ozark Plateau Refuge Studies Shed Light on Status of Bats

Biologists survey Oklahoma bats and monitor the Refuge's population for the effects of a relatively new bat disease known as white-nose syndrome.

Surveying Oklahoma’s Rivers for Endangered Least Terns

Biologists are using an airboat to cruise two Oklahoma rivers as they check in on nesting interior least terns.

A Health Checkup for Oklahoma's Frogs and Salamanders

The Wildlife Department Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History partnered to track the presence and emergence of amphibian infectious diseases.

Western Oklahoma Birds Counted in Multistate Survey

Survey teams with the Bird Conservancy of the Rockies counted birds in six states during the 2017 breeding season.

Digging Up Some Data on Shovelnose Sturgeon

Four-year shovelnose sturgeon study conducted in view of Tulsa skyline.

Night-flying Insects Surveyed in Osage County

Researchers at the University of New Hampshire partnered with the Wildlife Department to see if the rattlesnake master borer moth, and other night-flying insects were present in Osage County.