Michael Reichert, Assistant Professor
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I have a broad background in biology, but over the years my research interests have homed in on amphibian behavior and ecology. I did my master’s thesis at Southeastern Louisiana University on feeding behavior in toads (Incilius nebulifer) and have several ongoing herp-related projects. I first became interested in bioacoustics during my graduate research, which had an important vibrational/sensory dimension. Last summer I worked with the Wyoming Department of Game & Fish to develop automated call recognizers using a handy R package (monitoR) to assist with amphibian population monitoring efforts. Check out my website to learn more about me and some of my research at muddynaturalist.com.

My interests in biology are in Animal Behavior, but especially in the fields of cognition and communication. I did my undergrad at North Dakota State University where I did research in Dr. Dochtermann’s Lab. In between my time as an undergrad and grad school I did work out in the Tall Grass Prairie Preserve in Oklahoma. There I primarily worked with Prairie Mole Crickets and the American Burying Beetle. Through the field jobs and Dochtermann’s Lab I have gained an interest in working with invertebrates.

Iván has a degree in Biology (2003) from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM), where he also completed his PhD in 2009 under the supervision of José Luis Tellería and Javier Pérez-Tris. Shortly afterwards, he was awarded with a postdoctoral grant that allowed him a 2-year stay (2010-11) within Marcel Visser’s Lab at the Netherlands Institute of Ecology (NIOO-KNAW), plus one additional year (2012) at Universidad del País Vasco (UPV-EHU). Since January 2013 he was employed as a temporary research assistant in different institutions (e.g. UCM, NIOO-KNAW and various NGOs dedicated to birds). He was a research assistant at University College Cork from 2015-2019 before coming to Oklahoma State in April 2020.

Nicole is a Wentz Scholar working on her Honors thesis project. She is studying how the hormone Arginine Vasotocin affects competitive behavior in a frog model system.

Cheyenne is a OK-LSAMP scholar studying whether male frogs are responsive to female chemical cues.

Madisen is a Freshman Research Scholar studying temperature, aggression and cognition in crickets.

Rachel is a HHMI Life Sciences Freshman Research Scholar studying the effects of temperature on the response to competition in frogs.

Jacinda is a HHMI Life Sciences Freshman Research Scholar studying whether photos can be used to identify individual treefrogs.

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