Dein Suchergebnis zum Thema: Model

The Daniels Lab at the Florida Museum of Natural History was recently awarded two grants to help support pollinators in Florida. The Florida Department of Transportation has set aside $155,002 for the team to plant and monitor thousands of milkweeds along roads in North Florida, and Duke Energy Flor
identify these plants and monitor the populations long term.� Solar farms are a model

The spindly filaments and coral-like colonies of the ancient phylum of marine animals known as bryozoans likely aren’t the first thing that come to mind when you envision safe and protective child care. But a new study on the 600-million-year history of these obscure animals highlights the import
Cheilostomes are great model systems because they preserve well, and their reproductive

Ants offer a window into the scale of the invasive species problem and Florida hosts 12 of the worst invasive ant species worldwide.
 Although discussed during the lesson, but not as part of the intended ant model

Nitrogen fertilizers make it possible to feed the world’s growing population, but they are also costly, harm ecosystems and require a lot of energy to manufacture. However, a few plants have evolved the ability to make their own nitrogen with the help of bacteria. A new study helps explain how they
“Breeding and crop improvement efforts often focus on a single model species, which

Takeaways from the University of Florida’s 10th annual Climate Communications Summit The way we tell the climate story has the power to transform a feeling of collective overwhelm into one of collective empowerment.   The University of Florida’s 10th annual Climate Communications Summit brought
environmental reporting with a focus on human-centered storytelling can serve as a model

The Florida Museum of Natural History recently welcomed Arthur Porto as its first curator of artificial intelligence for natural history and biodiversity. Prior to joining the museum, Porto was an assistant professor of biology at Louisiana State University where he used machine learning and image-b
time-consuming process of pinpointing the location of physical features on a 3D model

Get an up-close look into the lives of humpback whales and the detailed process of rearticulating Humphrey, the Museum’s humpback whale skeleton that hangs in front of the Discovery Zone. Humpback whales were once on the verge of extinction, but thanks to global conservation efforts their populatio
Photos by Jason Bourque Ariel Bowman was inspired to sculpt a scale model of Humphrey

A paradox presents itself frequently at the Calusa Heritage Trail as visitors gripping the newest smart phones express pleasure that pieces of the past are preserved and valued. They ponder shells comprising the bulk of mounds that stood through centuries of human experiences and view illustrated po
Further, they note that their model did not account for the “conservative estimate

The human environmental footprint is not only deep, but old. Ancient traces of this footprint can be found in animal bones, shells, scales and antlers at archaeological sites. Together, these specimens tell the millennia-long story of how humans have hunted, domesticated and transported animals,
We have a long human record that we can look back to and model off of.”

Researchers have long thought that snail and clam shells found at Caribbean archaeological sites were evidence of “starvation food� eaten in times when other resources were lacking. Now, a University of Florida study suggests these shells may be evidence of children helping with the grocery shopping
first to document child labor in an archaeological context, provides an important model