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Advait Jukar joins Florida Museum of Natural History as newest curator of vertebrate paleontology – Research News

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The Florida Museum of Natural History welcomes Advait Jukar as its newest curator of vertebrate paleontology. He replaces curator emeritus Bruce MacFadden, who worked in the position for 47 years before retiring last month. Jukar primarily studies the fossils of large mammals that went extinct af
and Jukar quickly found himself working in a herpetology lab, which eventually led

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Disney awards funding to UF butterfly, sea turtle conservation projects – Research News

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As part of its work to save wildlife, the Disney Conservation Fund awarded funding to two University of Florida research centers to continue conservation efforts for imperiled butterflies and sea turtles. The programs will receive $350,000 each, bringing the total of Disney’s support for UF conserva
together to make an impact for wildlife, people and the planet.� The programs are led

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Three NSF grants fuel plant research at the Florida Museum’s herbarium – Research News

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Three grants from the National Science Foundation will support new discoveries at the University of Florida Herbarium, housed at the Florida Museum of Natural History. The herbarium, also known by the acronym FLAS, is the oldest and largest plant collection in the state and among the largest Neotrop
Majure is also a co-principal investigator on a three-year, $3.6 million grant led

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Florida Museum’s new permanent exhibit about water set to open in 2024 – Pressroom

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GAINESVILLE, Fla. — The Florida Museum of Natural History has finished the design and development stage of its newest permanent exhibit, “Water Shapes Florida.â€� Construction is set to begin later this month, with an anticipated open date of spring 2024. The iconic “Northwest Florida: Waterw
A field cabin replica, complete with simulated weather patterns outside its LED screen

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Ceibal – Environmental Archaeology

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Ceibal Archaeological Project Project Zooarchaeologist: Ashley Sharpe What can animal bones and shells tell us about the rise of Maya society? With a history spanning some 2,000 years, the site of Ceibal (formerly „Seibal“) has one of the longest occupation sequences anywhere in the Maya are
900) to better understand how political tensions between Ceibal and its neighbors led

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Moth workshop for kids, anyone? – Andrei Sourakov | Lepidoptera Collections Coordinator

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Recently, we conducted a hands-on science event at the Florida Institute for Human and Machine Cognition (IHMC) in Ocala, about an hour south of Gainesville. One of us (Sourakov) already had a talk prepared about moth biology in conjunction with the launch of his 2022 book, The Lives of Moths, so we
Take home messages: The final stretch of the presentation led us into a discussion

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Florida Museum researcher advances to finals in multimillion-dollar biodiversity competition – Research News

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Over the course of four weeks this summer, a motley crew of biologists, engineers, entrepreneurs and programmers gathered at predetermined sites within Windsor Nature Park, a 185-acre tropical rainforest located in the heart of Singapore. They’d traveled from all over the world to participate in a o
House is a member of Team Waponi, which is led by Thomas Walla, a professor of biology

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Jennifer Green joins the Florida Museum as new archaeology collections manager – Research News

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Jennifer Green grew up surrounded by the sub-tropical diversity of Southern Florida, where she spent most of her time exploring outside. Interested in archaeology from an early age, she found a natural progression to studying the Indigenous cultures that once inhabited the landscape around her. “
That community-building has led to the discovery of some of the oldest archaeological

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Marine fossils are a reliable benchmark for degrading and collapsing ecosystems – Research News

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Biologists attempting to conserve and restore denuded environments are limited by their scant knowledge of what those environments looked like before the arrival of humans. This is especially true of coastal ecosystems, many of which had already been drastically altered by pollution and overharvesti
currently an assistant professor of biology at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, led

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About the Ceramic Type Collection – Historical Archaeology

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The Ceramic Type collection of the Florida Museum of Natural History historical archaeology laboratory has three major components. These include the Historical Archaeology Type collections (HTC), The Lister Collection (LC), and the Illustrated Collection (IC). The Historical Archaeology Type coll
This work led to several major archaeological research collections reflecting plantation

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