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Caddo County Prairie Landscape

Personnel

Amy with the rare Royal Catchfly
Amy Buthod

Heritage Botanist

Amy surveys the state for rare and invasive plants.  She conducts floristic inventorys across Oklahoma including Registered Natural Areas, The Nature Conservancy preserves, State Wildlife Management Areas, and National Forests.  She is also the Collections Manager in the Bebb Herbarium.

Email: amybuthod@ou.edu

Priscilla on top of a mountain.
Priscilla Crawford

Heritage Program Coordinator
Heritage Ecologist

She is currently studying native plant restoration, pollinator habitat improvements, and Monarch butterfly migration and reproduction in Oklahoma.

Email: prill@ou.edu

Priscilla's Webpage

Owen with a headlamp holding a frog.
Owen Edwards

Heritage Zoologist

Owen is a herpetologist, with a focus on frogs and turtles.   His current research is on crawfish frogs and green tree frogs.

Email: OwenEdwards@ou.edu

Illiyana with a sel-made Monarch Butterfly sticker
Illiyana Ferguson

Student Assistant

Illiyana is the Data Analyst for the Oklahoma Natural Heritage Inventory, and she helps to report information on endangered species in Oklahoma.

Email: illyferg@ou.edu 

James in the field
James Hung

Assistant Professor and Heritage Zoologist

James is a community ecologist studying pollinator diversity and conservation, with a focus on bees. He also studies pollination biology and climate change. 

Email: KLJHung@ou.edu

James' Webpage

Headshot of Jeremy
Jeremy Ross

Assistant Professor & Heritage Zoologist

Area of Study: Winter grassland bird movement ecology and conservation. Creating sustainable landscapes. Severe weather ecology

Email: rossjd@ou.edu

Jeremy's Webpage