Gloria Caddell, Ph.D.

Gloria Caddell, Ph.D., is currently the associate dean of the College of Mathematics and Science and a professor of biology.  Her interest in nature was sparked as a child by camping and hiking in the forests of southern Alabama, canoeing the streams of the Mobile Delta and walking the Gulf Coast beaches. Caddell's B.A. and M.A. degrees are in anthropology from the University of Alabama, where she specialized in the analysis of archaeological plant remains. She earned a Ph.D. in biology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.  Her dissertation, on the population genetics and pollination ecology of camellia, is based on research she conducted as a research student in Japan for two and a half years.  Caddell has taught biology at UCO since 1990 and chaired the Department of Biology for four years.  She received the Provost’s Modeling the Way Award (2017), the Neely Excellence in Teaching Award (2010) and the Vanderford Distinguished Teacher Award, College of Mathematics and Science (2006). Her research focuses on the flora of Oklahoma, particularly the native plant communities of gypsum outcrops of northwestern Oklahoma and the pollination of Oklahoma prairie plants.  She is the managing editor of the Oklahoma Native Plant Record and a member of the Flora of Oklahoma Editorial Committee.

Plant Biology

Plants and Life

Environmental Biology

General Biology

Biology II for Majors

Plant Taxonomy

Plant Ecology

Pollination Biology

Introduction to Biological Research

Grass and Composite Taxonomy

Oklahoma Field Biology (Vascular Plants section)

   Ph.D. in Biology, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, December, 1989

   Research Student, Kyushu University, Japan, January 1983- August 1985

   M.A. in Anthropology, The University of Alabama, 1979

   B.A. in Anthropology, The University of Alabama, 1974

      

Caddell, G. 2019.  Roots, branches, flowers, fruits, and seeds: My transformation into a

  botanist and teacher. Chapter 21, pp. 177-183 In  Sims, Jeanetta, Ed Cunliff,

  and Anna Doré (eds.).  Inspired Learning: 50 Insights from Personal Transformative

  Learning Journeys. University of Central Oklahoma, Edmond.

Ryburn et al. Flora Oklahoma Editorial Committee. 2018. Flora of Oklahoma: Keys and

  Descriptions, 2^nd edition. Flora Oklahoma Incorporated.

Caddell, G. M., K. Chritoffel, C. Esqueda, and A. Smith. 2017. Vascular flora of E. C. Hafer

    Park, Edmond, Oklahoma.  Oklahoma Native Plant Record 17:53-68.

Caire, W., K. B. Ganow, R. S. Matlack, G. M. Caddell, and P. Crawford.  2014.

    Loss of a significant Brazilian Free-tailed Bat (Tadarida brasiliensis) maternity

    population in Oklahoma. Southwestern Naturalist 59(2):274-277.

Hites, R., G. M. Caddell, M. E. B. Stone, and P. A. Stone.  2013. Relationships of body size and

     male melanism to biting propensity in red-eared sliders (Trachemys scripta). Herpetological

     Review 44: 46-49.

Caddell, G. M. and K.D. Rice. 2012. Vascular flora of Alabaster Caverns State Park, Cimarron

     Gypsum Hills, Woodward County, Oklahoma. Oklahoma Native Plant Record 12:43-62.

Butler, C., L. Pham, J. Stinedurf, C. Roy, E. Judd, N. Burgess, and G. Caddell.  2010.

    Yellow Rail (Cortunicops noveboracensis) winters in Oklahoma.  Wilson Journal of

    Ornithology 122(2):385-387.

Caire, W. and G. M. Caddell. 2006. Westward range extension of the eastern chipmunk,

     Tamias striatus (Rodentia: Sciuridae) in central Oklahoma. Proceedings of the Oklahoma

     Academy of Science 86:91-92.

Hoagland, B. W., A. Buthod, and G. Caddell. 2005.  The occurrence of Cerastium pumilum   

     (Caryophyllacea) in Oklahoma.  Sida 21(4): 2439-2440.

Buckallew, R. and G. Caddell. 2003.  Vascular flora of the Selman Living Laboratory,

     Woodward County, Oklahoma.  Proceedings of the Oklahoma Academy of Science 83:31-

      45.

Nisbett, R.A., W. Caire, M.D. Stuart, G.M. Caddell, and C.H. Calisher. 2001.  Serological

     survey of Oklahoma rodents: evidence for the presence of a hantavirus and an arenovirus.

     Proceedings of the Oklahoma Academy of Science 81:53-66.

Caddell, G. M. 1986.  A summary for a paleoethnobotanical study.   pp. 468-470 in A. E.

     Radford, Fundamentals of plant systematics, Harper and Row, New York.

Uemoto, S. and G. M. Caddell. 1985.  The distribution of wild Camellia japonica in Japan and

       South Korea.  International Camellia Journal 17:73-76.

Caddell, G. M. 1983.  Charred plant remains from the Cedar Creek and Upper Bear Creek

     Reservoirs.  Chapter 10 in E. M.  Futato (ed.), Archaeological investigations in the Cedar

     Creek and Upper Bear Creek Reservoirs.  University of Alabama Office of

     Archaeological  Research, Report of Investigations No. 13, Tennessee Valley

     Authority Publications in Anthropology No. 32.

Caddell, G. M. 1982.  Plant resources, archaeological plant remains, and prehistoric plant-use

     patterns in the central Tombigbee River Valley.  Bulletin No. 7, The Alabama Museum of

     Natural History, University, Alabama.

Smith, C. E., Jr. and G. M. Caddell. 1977. Plant remains. In The Bellefonte site: 1 Ja 300, by

     E. M. Futato. Research Series 2, Office of Archaeological Research, The University of

    Alabama.