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Monarch butterflies are in serious trouble. Across eastern North America, migrating populations have plummeted more than 80% over the past two decades. News in the West is even worse, with population numbers down to less than 1% of their historic size. To counteract these declines, we must work tog
The University of Florida Foundation, the gift-fund-management
What’s Changing The Florida Museum intranet equipment calendars are migrating to Microsoft 365 calendars, which is the system that currently powers Gatormail. Why We Are Migrating Migrating our equipment calendars into UF’s approved scheduling system, Microsoft 365, allows us to leverage the fami
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Megan Ennes, assistant curator of museum education at the Florida Museum of Natural History, has been named the new director of the University of Florida Thompson Earth Systems Institute. In her role, which begins July 1, Ennes will strengthen and forge new collaborations with researchers at UF and
TESI launched in 2018 thanks to a gift from longtime
Most Museum websites run the same theme, but the theme has various customization options you can edit to make the site your own. These tutorials will show you how to change your site theme colors, headers, side navigation menu and more. Videos on this page: Customizing Site Theme Optio
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The UF campus has an incredibly diverse collection of native and cultivated plants growing on its over 2,000 acres. Specimens to document the campus plant life have been preserved in the Herbarium since the 1920s. We are databasing and imaging these legacy specimens and purposefully enriching those
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In February 2020, researchers undertook a broad study of how museums used distance learning in their education programs, not anticipating the world would soon be turned on its head. With the sudden spike in the number of COVID-19 cases the following month, 90% of museums and science centers around t
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Nomenclatural type specimens are important elements of botanical nomenclature. The name of a taxon is permanently attached to the type, whether as a correct name or as a synonym. These valuable specimens should be given extra care and protection. The rules and practice of typification have changed
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1. Daily Follow-up to Mounting Do a final check on the specimen conditions and have specimens repaired that are not mounted well. Make sure each specimen is secure and has a packet. Provide feedback to the mounters. Pencil the family number on the upper right of each sheet’s label or just ab
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The University of Florida Herbarium welcomes visitors with a legitimate research interest to consult the collections. The herbarium holds a vast storehouse of information in its library and with museum specimens of historic importance dating back into the mid-1800s. The specimens are fragile and ar
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Carter Rowell Gilbert, former curator emeritus of ichthyology at the Florida Museum of Natural History, passed away peacefully earlier this year on Jan. 6 at the age of 91. A memorial service was held on Saturday, June 11, attended by friends, family and colleagues to commemorate his life and achiev
Many of Gilbert’s friends have asked about making a gift
