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Scientists: ‘Time is ripe’ to use big data for planet-sized plant questions – Research News

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A group of Florida Museum of Natural History scientists has issued a “call to action” to use big data to tackle longstanding questions about plant diversity and evolution and forecast how plant life will fare on an increasingly human-dominated planet. In a commentary published today in Nature Pla
databases such as GenBank, which stores DNA sequences, iDigBio, a University of Florida-led

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The Pineland Site and Calusa-Spanish Relations, 1612-1614 – Randell Research Center

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The identification of the Pineland site as the likely remains of the important 16th-18th-century Calusa community of Tampa (see June, 2002 Friends newsletter, Vol. 1, No. 2, p. 3) along the northern Calusa frontier lends new significance to documentary evidence regarding Calusa-Spanish relations bet
Augustine during the summer of 1612, during which a launch led by Ensign Juan Rodríguez

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Teaching – Mammals Collection

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Teaching in the Caribbean islands Our collecting throughout the Caribbean has taken us to many islands. Before each trip we inquire about the local schools and arrange a trip to visit one or more. These trips are used to explain to the students why we are visiting their island, and why we value the
The beginning of the course will feature class discussions led by the instructor

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The Write Stuff – Randell Research Center

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Imagine the opportunity to step into the life of your favorite author. And imagine that he shares with you his writing techniques and life experiences. Hard to imagine? Not if the author is Randy Wayne White and you are one of the 20 aspiring and published writers who attended his writer’s workshop
After everyone was introduced and mingled while enjoying refreshments, Randy led

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96-million-year-old fossil pollen sheds light on early pollinators – Research News

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The collapse of honeybee colonies across North America is focusing attention on the honeybees‘ vital role in the survival of agricultural crops, and a new study by Florida Museum and Indiana University Southeast researchers shows insect pollinators have likely played a key role in the evolution and
combined with known structural changes occurring in flowering plants at this time, led

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New Frogmouth bird genus found in South Pacific Solomon Islands – Research News

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Your bird field guide may be out of date now that Florida Museum of Natural History scientists discovered a new genus of frogmouth bird on a South Pacific island. New genera of living birds are rare discoveries — fewer than one per year is announced globally. David Steadman and Andrew Kratte
The blunder went undetected for decades, until a collecting trip led by Kratter in

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Old Spanish mission found near Gainesville – Research News

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Rewind 300 years and imagine you are a Spanish colonist in Florida fleeing for your life to the protection of St. Augustine’s fortified walls. Or maybe you are a Native American desperate to escape the relentless assaults of slave raiders descending from the Carolinas. You pack in haste. You leave m
The test excavations led Waters to believe they were digging in the Potano village

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Florida teachers, UF scientists partner to develop science lesson plans July 7-12 – Pressroom

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GAINESVILLE, Fla. — K-12 science teachers from across Florida will spend four days this summer in a University of Florida laboratory as part of a professional development workshop hosted by the UF Thompson Earth Systems Institute titled “Florida’s Connection to the Biosphere.â€� July 7-12, 34
funded by the “Scientist in Every Florida School� project, a new initiative led

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Researchers help pinpoint key events in ancient plant evolution – Research News

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Researchers from the University of Florida and six other institutions have unlocked some of the key foundations for the evolution of seed and flowering plants. The study, to be published online Sunday in Nature, is the first to identify the occurrence of ancient genome duplication events and show
“One ancient genome duplication event led to all the diversity of flowering plants

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Teachers receive fossils, create lesson plans at museum workshop – Research News

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Florida Museum of Natural History researchers and amateur paleontologists teamed up to give K-12 teachers a crash course that came with some impressive party favors: real fossils. Through a four-day workshop in August 2017, called FOSSILs4Teachers!, 30 teachers from across the U.S. converged on a
The Florida Museum’s Victor Perez and Jeanette Pirlo, far right, led workshop participants

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