University of Oklahoma
Biological Station
1949-2008
1959
May 2002
May 2002
July 2007
DIRECTORS
OF THE
BIOLOGICAL STATION
Carl D. Riggs
1959
Director, 1950-1969
Carl & Pat Riggs
July 2001
Assistant Director, 1967-1969
Director, 1969-1998
Loren G. Hill
William J. (Bill) Matthews
Interim Director of
Research
1997-1998
Interim Director of
Programs
1999
Lawrence J. (Larry) Weider
Director of Research, 1999
Director, 2000-2012
FLOODS
1990 Flood
1990 Flood
1990 Flood
1990 Flood
1990 Flood
1990 Flood
1990 Flood
1990 Flood
Denison Dam, July 6, 2007
Photo by Amy Govert-Larson
Photo by Kerstin Harville
2007 Flood
2007 Flood
2007 Flood
2007 Flood
2007 Flood
2007 Flood
2007 Flood
2007 Flood
2007 Flood
2007 Flood
07/05/2007
2007 Flood
STORMS
August 2002
August 2002
August 2002
CHANGING
SEASONS
SUMMER
SESSIONS
George Moore and
daughter
1952
1952 Natural History of
Vertebrates
1953
1957
THEN
1957 Parasitology Lab
NOW
1959 Animal Behavior
1959
1961
Doc’s lizard watch
1963
1963 UOBS Staff
Summer Session 1985
COURSES OFFERED DURING THE
1980’S
•Advanced Ecology
•Host-Parasite Relationships
•Algal Ecology
•Animal Behavior
•Aquatic and Wetland Vascular
Plants
•Aquatic Botany
•Biology of Fishes
•Comparative Ecology
•Ecological Genetics
•Experimental Ecology
•Experimental Limnology
•Field Botany
•Field Ecology
•Field Entomology
•Herpetology
•Ichthyology
•Larval Fish Ecology
•Limnology
•Mathematics for Ecologists
•Natural History of Vertebrates
•Ornithology
•Phycology
•Physiological Ecology of Algae
•Plant Ecology
•Pollination Ecology
•Reservoir Fisheries Biology
•Stream Ecology
•Zooplankton Ecology
Summer Session 2008
Courses
May Session
May 18-31, 2008
•Bird Ecology
•Molecular Techniques for Field Biology
•Senior Capstone: Evolutionary Medicine
•Wetlands Management and Science
•Wetlands Science
August Session
July 27-Aug. 8, 2008
•Field Botany
•Field Herpetology
•Field Mammalogy
•Introduction to Stream Ecology
•Senior Capstones: Multi-scale
Perspectives on Global Environmental
Change
Summer Session 2009
May Session
May 26-June 6, 2009
•Experimental Design & Statistical
Concepts
August Session
Aug. 2-14, 2009
•Field Herpetology
•Field Mammalogy
•Introduction to Stream Ecology
•Molecular Techniques for Field Biology
•Senior Capstone
•Vascular Aquatic Plants
•Wildlife Conservation
Please visit our Web site at ou.edu/uobs/courses.html for
updates regarding courses to be offered during 2009.
Charles
(Chuck)
and
Mary
Carpenter
Geoff Carpenter & Charles Painter
August 2008 Field Herpetology
with instructors outside the
classroom dedicated to Dr.
Charles C. Carpenter
Emilie Carpenter
August 2008 Field Herpetology Class
Kim Hauger
Student 1977/78
and
Marian McCarley
Geoff Hauger
Student
August 2008
Reservoir Fish Ecology Class
Carl Riggs (1st director of the Biological Station) and Teague Self
Barbara and Jack
1966
Charles C. Carpenter and “mystery student” 
George M. Sutton and Charles C.
Carpenter
THEN
Cindy’s Place
NOW
RESEARCH
Nicole (Luke)
Kohmescher
•Attended Precollegiate
Program
•Worked in the lab on a
grant project
•Research work on her
Master’s Thesis
Experimental analysis of
grazing and life history traits
in Daphnia pulicaria fed the
toxic algae Prymnesium
parvum
Dr. Punidan Jeyasingh
former Graduate Student
Studies on how relative supply of biogenic elements
impact key
eco-evolutionary processes
Assistant Professor of Zoology
Oklahoma State U.
Starting 1 January 2009
Dr. Rachael
Remington,
former Graduate
Student
(Currently at BYU)
Ecology and
evolution of turbid
water adaptations in
fishes
Dr. Rickey Cothran,
former Graduate Student
(Current Postdoc, U. of Pittsburgh)
Ecological context and the
evolution of mating biases in
a freshwater amphipod
species complex
Zoology
Department
Retreat
After
the
work
was
done!
October 2004
Jeff Wesner, graduate student and
Kim Hauger, member of the Friends Executive Committee,
former Chair and former student
Guest Speaker 2007
David Sibley
Future Reservoir Fish Ecology Students?
Moonlighting?
Richard Page
Facilities Manager
Jeff Wesner
Graduate Student