Celebrate ‚International Women and Girls in Science Day‘ with hands-on activities and experiments during this FREE program open to everyone. In 2015, the United Nations selected Feb. 11 as ‚International Women and Girls in Science Day‘ in order to encourage more female participation in science. Joi
Soltis Lab– Dive into DNA extraction with strawberries.
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advance ethical open science Environmental Archaeology new study on Colonial horse DNA
What is Environmental Archaeology? Environmental archaeology is the interdisciplinary study of past human interactions with the natural world – a world that encompasses plants, animals, and landscapes. We seek to reconstruct ancient environments associated with archaeological sites and the use of p
of speciality, often rely on biomolecular sciences for their research, studying DNA
Hickory horned devils look fierce, but they’re just the caterpillar stage of a beautiful moth. A few weeks ago, a Florida Museum visitor brought this one to us because she found it in her backyard and wasn’t sure what to do with it. After one of our scientists checked it out, and staff took a few
: Ray and Kirk dig Florida Creative Outreach: TreeTender at Dragon Con Cattle DNA
The Florida Museum is saddened to announce the sudden death of botanist Mark Whitten. Whitten was well known for his love of living things, his collegial spirit and gentle, kind manner. He began his work at the University of Florida in 1981 as a graduate student of Norris Williams, curator eme
Molecular Systematics and Evolutionary Genetics where he was developing new methods of DNA
Herbarium Methodologies Learn about herbaria and the techniques we use to preserve and study plant specimens. A herbarium is a collection of plant samples preserved for long-term study. These collections are diverse, including pressed, dried and mounted plants, seeds, wood sections, pollen, microsc
dried and mounted plants, seeds, wood sections, pollen, microscope slides, frozen DNA
The Florida Museum of Natural History recently recognized operations coordinator Kurt Auffenberg as the 2010 recipient of the Thompson Van Hyning Award. The service award, the highest given to museum employees who are not faculty members or students, honors the museum’s first director, Thompson V
: Ray and Kirk dig Florida Creative Outreach: TreeTender at Dragon Con Cattle DNA
Our last Volunteer Enrichment Workshop of the season was a blast! Nicole Fuller, Collections Manager of the Florida Museum of Natural History’s Environmental Archaeology collections and program, along with our director, Michelle LeFebvre, provided an overview of cutting-edge environmental archaeolog
archaeology geochemical and biochemical analysis techniques (e.g., isotopes, ancient DNA
A new book by Nicolas Delsol, a courtesy faculty member and former researcher at the Florida Museum of Natural History, reveals the profound role cattle played in shaping the Americas. Delsol is currently in the Laboratoire d’Archéologie at Université Laval in Quebec, Canada. In this book, Delsol
their impact in the Americas by using a broad range of methods, such as ancient DNA
Ava Johnson Undergraduate volunteer I love all things insects, but especially Lepidoptera! I’ve been raising caterpillars since as long as I can remember, from swallowtails to monarchs to woolly bears and even hornworms. These creatures inspire me not only as a scientific curiosity, but they als
My main duties lie in the molecular lab, where I perform DNA extractions, PCR, DNA
