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Emeritus Curator of Vertebrate Paleontology Florida Museum of Natural History Professor
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Emeritus Curator of Vertebrate Paleontology Florida Museum of Natural History Professor
from the Florida Museum of Natural History
Awards & Honors Robert Guralnick named UF Research Foundation Professor August
Florida Museum of Natural History researcher Larry Page will deliver a congressional briefing in Washington Tuesday about the value of digitizing biological collections. Page is president of the National Science Collections Alliance and will be speaking on behalf of the organization, a nonprofit
kicks off Oct. 15 Awards & Honors Robert Guralnick named UF Research Foundation Professor
Former Students Tania Pineda Enriquez Ph.D. 2022, Zoology “Diversity and evolution of brittle stars across the worlds ocean: Revisionary systematics of ophiolepidoids” Jenna Moore Ph.D. 2019, Zoology “Phylogeny, systematics, and evolution of functional morphology in Chaetopteridae (Annelida)
inferences from the molecular systematics of reef-associated crustaceans” Associate Professor
From July 11-15, 12 Florida middle school teachers came together to kick off our yearlong professional development program titled, „AI Learning in K-12 with Fossil Sharks.“ During this unique experience, teachers learned how to bridge the fields of artificial intelligence (AI) and paleontology in
Instructors Bruce MacFadden, TESI Director and Distinguished Professor, Florida
Using a branch of AI called “machine learning,” humans will teach computers to identify the teeth of the extinct giant shark megalodon.
answer other scientific questions,” said MacFadden, who is also a distinguished professor
A new Florida Museum study that determined the age of skeletal remains provides evidence humans reached the Western Hemisphere during the last ice age and lived alongside giant extinct mammals. The study published online today in the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology addresses the century-lo
Barbara Purdy, right, University of Florida anthropology professor emeritus and archaeology
Using the largest dated evolutionary tree of flowering plants ever assembled, a new study suggests how plants developed traits to withstand low temperatures, with implications that human-induced climate change may pose a bigger threat than initially thought to plants and global agriculture. T
human-induced climate change, said study co-author Pam Soltis, a distinguished professor
The Earth BioGenome Project (EBP), a global effort to map the genomes of all 1.8 million known species of plants, animals, fungi and other eukaryotic life on Earth, is entering a new phase as it moves from pilot projects to full scale production sequencing. Pamela Soltis, a plant biologist at the Fl
resources for us in ways that we can’t even anticipate,” said Soltis, a distinguished professor
The Florida Museum of Natural History’s Lawrence Page and Douglas Soltis have been named 2019 fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the world’s largest multidisciplinary scientific society. Fellows are elected on the basis of their scientifically or socially distingu
Page, Florida Museum curator of fishes and a University of Florida adjunct professor