Author Archives: Kathy

It doesn’t seem possible that our work here is over half-way over…it seems like we just got started!  We had a great July 4th with fireworks and a cookout, and now we’re on the downhill side of the research experience. … Continue reading →

Not much going on here at OSU this weekend…everyone seems to have cleared out!  I hear there’s a rodeo in Perkins, but it’s just too hot for me to want to drive anywhere.  I may venture into the swelter occasionally. … Continue reading →

Yesterday was blah…so I’m just gonna forget it happened and go on to today – FRIDAY!  That automatically makes a better day, right? Most of the morning was spent taking care of lizards.  This includes checking the incubator for newly-hatched, … Continue reading →

Today we piled thirteen adults into a van and headed for Tulsa to tour the OSU BioMed research facility and meet with a couple of the researchers working there. They are married and alternately completed their undergraduate, masters, doctoral, and … Continue reading →

Having finished gathering my data (all of the male anoles were tired of me stressing them), it was time to sit down with a statistics program and see what the numbers could tell us.  I was enthralled!  I sat in … Continue reading →

I spent most of the morning trying not to get out of bed…anybody else ever have that kind of Monday? Actually, I was waiting on a call from Michelle to see if she needed any assistance this today, and she … Continue reading →

Today was spent helping a grad student.  Michelle is in charge of the lizards that I have been studying and she needed to do some tests herself.  I volunteered to help and figured I could learn some tips, since she … Continue reading →

Seems we arrived in the middle of a heat wave…I just figured it was normal Oklahoma hot!    It’s 10 p.m and it’s still 91 degrees outside.  There has not been a single day since we arrived when the high temperature … Continue reading →

I knew things were going too well this summer.  The data collection is finished for my research; I’ve gotten all my literature sources together; the rowdy kids on the dorm hall have gone home; I toured the vet school here … Continue reading →

I don’t know how many of you reading this blog have ever done any research, the results of which you would like to have published…but I salute you!  The research itself – in my case: observing the behavior and physiological … Continue reading →