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from the Florida Museum of Natural History
Awards & Honors Robert Guralnick named UF Research Foundation Professor August
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
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
Department Chair David Blackburn Herpetology Department Chair, Associate Director for Research & Collections, and Curator Affiliate Appointments: Biology, School of Natural Resources and Environment, Wildlife Ecology & Conservation, School of Art + Art History Contact: 352-273-1943 | db
Lockwood Jr., Professor of Historical Archaeology Curator Affiliate Appointments:
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
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Distinguished Curator of Vertebrate Paleontology Florida Museum of Natural History Professor
