09/29/2026
Future employers: We need grads with more field research experience.
Students: We want to go to science camp. 🔬 ⛺
Drs. Carrie Leslie and Trey Lee: Hold my matcha. 🍵
Flashback to last summer, when students in a new DGES field course spent time at the Lake Texoma OU Biological Station collecting environmental data and putting their geospatial skills to work — the first time a DGES interdisciplinary field research course was offered at the Bio Station!
Students from Geospatial Science, GIS, Environmental Sustainability, Biology, Psychology and Multidisciplinary Studies worked in research groups investigating water quality, red cedar encroachment, native and edible plants, and the ecology of a nearby island.
Along the way, they gained hands-on experience with geospatial data collection, field mapping and environmental sampling while exploring ecoregions, ancestral land rights and local wildlife. They even went on a field trip to Hagerman National Wildlife Refuge.
Take us back!