Hosted by the Pine Island Kiwanis Club at the Calusa Heritage Trail, the Calusa 5K took place on Saturday, January 11 with runners hailing from as far away as Chicago and ranging in age from 8 to 79. The concluding sprint on the short loop of the Calusa Heritage Trail was the course highlig
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Teamwork makes the outreach dream work! At this year’s Immokalee Cattle Drive and Jamboree at the Immokalee Pioneer Museum at Roberts Ranch in Collier County, we partnered with Mound House to share the wonder and importance of archaeology, Calusa history, and museums to southwest Florida heritage.
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Project Overview The University of Florida Herbarium (FLAS) Bryophyte and Lichen collections are being cataloged into national portals. This work is being supported by a series of grants. Bryophyte type specimens – the majority of our bryophyte type specimens were cataloged and imaged with s
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The University of Florida Herbarium applies donations to fund student, staff, and faculty research in plant systematics, and to help grow and diversify the herbarium. Past and current donations have helped to fund and train students on mounting historic plant specimens as well as trips to collect sp
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The University of Florida Herbarium is the oldest (est. 1891) and largest herbarium in Florida with approximately 500,000 specimens. It is the 4th largest herbarium in the southeastern United States. The Herbarium is a unit of the Department of Natural History of the Florida Museum of Natural Histo
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The Florida Program for Shark Research at the Florida Museum of Natural History is one of the world’s leading shark research labs and the foremost experts on human-shark interactions. Our research includes projects studying shark and ray phylogenetics, population genetics, ecology, behavior, and con
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Congratulations and Thank You to Boy Scout Troop 20 member Chris Hunkins, who supervised the repair and reconstruction of the Calusa Heritage Trail footbridge for his Eagle Scout project. Chris developed plans and budgets, met with Gary Vinson and Cindy Bear for plan approval, and supervised the w
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Beach nourishment is a hot topic in Florida… but what exactly does it mean for our sandy beaches?
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As part of our celebration of the RRC’s 25th anniversary, we invited Bill Marquardt, RRC’s co-founder and first director, to summarize some of the key events in its history. Close your eyes for a minute and listen. Unless you are hearing-impaired, you are likely to notice something – traffi
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Friends, beer and . . . butterflies? Is this how we do conservation now? Our scientists have worked hard to identify and study species at risk of extinction for decades, but they know it takes a village to pull them back from the brink. So, they got creative with beer and butterflies. Way bac
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