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Jaret Daniels has been working with imperiled butterflies for decades. From the Miami blue to the frosted elfin to the iconic Monarch, many of these species need advocacy and support from the public—especially here in Florida. Our state offers unique environments for a wide variety of butterflies an
Instructors Rachel Mallinger, assistant professor of Entomology at UF, specializes

Much of coral reef biodiversity is hidden in its Swiss-cheese like holes and crevices. Beautiful animals such as these rarely seen urchins never leave the safety of reef crevices. Spectacular species are still being discovered. Summary Strawberry Urchin (Chondrocidaris brevispina) From Guam Isl
discovered in this fauna and it is being named after a friend of mine who was a professor

The National Science Foundation has awarded emergency funding to archaeologists at three institutions to survey cultural heritage sites damaged by Hurricane Ian earlier this year. Researchers from the Florida Museum of Natural History, Pennsylvania State University and the University of Georgia coll
Isabelle Holland-Lulewicz, an assistant professor of anthropology at Penn State and

Sharks have skeletons made of cartilage, which rarely preserves in the fossil record. Gordon Hubbell has perhaps the world’s largest and best-preserved collection of rare shark jaws and teeth, including the only complete fossilized skull of a Great White Shark. Summary Ancient Great White Shark
Bruce MacFadden Curator, Vertebrate Paleontology* Distinguished Professor Florida

Two faculty members at the Florida Museum of Natural History have been elected as 2023 fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the world’s largest multidisciplinary scientific society. David Blackburn, curator of herpetology, and Robert Guralnick, curator of biodiversity
Florida were chosen as 2023 AAAS fellows, including Karen Bjorndal, a distinguished professor

Stephanie Killingsworth has been named a recipient of the Winifred Goldring Award by the Association for Women Geoscientists. This national award is presented annually to female graduate students who have demonstrated outstanding achievement and acumen in paleontology and related fields of research.
honorable mentions Awards & Honors David Blackburn named UF Research Foundation Professor

Thank you for offering me the $1,000.00 travel support last summer. This financial support allowed me to attend the 60th annual conference of the Association of Tropical Biology and Conservation (ATBC) in Kigali, Rwanda. During the conference, I presented some preliminary results from my third disse
Scott Robinson, Katharine Ordway Professor of Ecosystem Conservation and Eminent

The Namibian desert located in Namib-Naukluft Park is home to a myriad of plant species within the family Zygophyllaceae. This plant family is the focus of my dissertation project where I am interested in exploring the evolution of leaf succulence and using Zygophyllaceae as a model system. The rang
Douglas Soltis, Distinguished Professor of Biology, and Dr.

Move over, Linnaeus: There’s a new way of naming organisms. Scientists have formalized an alternative set of rules 285 years after the publication of the first edition of “Systema Naturae,� the landmark volume marking the beginning of the rank-based system for categorizing and naming life. Known
at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History, and Philip Cantino, professor

Florida Museum of Natural History student François Michonneau recently received a $15,000 National Science Foundation grant to research sea cucumbers in Japan. The NSF Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant program provides partial support for projects to improve the quality of research in the b
Michonneau will work with Tohru Naruse, University of the Ryukyus assistant professor