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Robert Guralnick, curator of bioinformatics at the Florida Museum of Natural History, is a member of an international team that won first place in the five-year XPRIZE Rainforest competition. The winners were announced Friday, Nov. 15 at a summit held in Rio de Janeiro. More than $7 million was awar
Museum, and Julie Allen, former Florida Museum Ph.D. student and current assistant professor

With the full onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in early 2020, museums faced the dilemma of having to maintain outreach efforts without the ability to showcase in-person exhibits. Roughly 90% of museums worldwide closed their doors to the public, and many remained shuttered for the remainder of the yea
at all levels,� said study co-author Gail Jones, alumni distinguished graduate professor

The migration of mature female tiger sharks during late summer and fall to the main Hawaiian Islands, presumably to give birth, could provide insight into attacks in that area, according to a University of Florida scientist. In a new seven-year study, researchers from the Florida Museum of Na
Christopher Lowe, a professor in the biological sciences department at California

Scientists analyzed more than 31 million iNaturalist records in a new study to find out who most often uses the popular nature app and what types of observations they submit. iNaturalist allows anyone with a phone or camera and an Internet connection to upload and identify photos of plants and anima
This isn’t necessarily bad, said senior author Allen Hurlbert, a professor in the

In 2012, a crop of California’s most prized ornamental trees was overrun by an invisible invader. The growing shoots of coral beans — the official city tree of Los Angeles — began wilting and falling away, revealing stems that had been hollowed out from the inside by the caterpillars of Erythrina st
analysis of insects provided by the late Dan Lindsley, formerly a retired UC San Diego professor

When it comes to camels, it’s difficult not to think of the Old World depicted through Arabian Nights – Bedouin travelers crossing vast, radiant deserts by day, through dark, star-spotted Arabian nights. But according to the fossil record, the ancestors of modern camels were creatures of the New Wor
Florida Museum photo by Jeff Gage Barry Albright, a professor of earth science at

The selected projects are intended to communicate Earth systems science research to either K-12 students and teachers or lifelong learners.  
production.   “What had more of an impact than the topic was the enthusiasm my professor

In late 1891, Peter Henry Rolfs began collecting specimens of wild plants in Florida, essentially marking the formation of the University of Florida Herbarium. The University of Florida Herbarium (FLAS) contains about a half million specimens, including about 350,000 vascular plants, 70,000 bryophy
Lake City (Columbia County), through the efforts of Peter Henry Rolfs (1865-1944), professor

T he National Science Foundation has awarded iDigBio nearly $20 million to continue its mission of digitizing natural history collections nationwide, making them available online to researchers, educators and community scientists around the world. For the past decade, iDigBio, a collaborative
rates, said botanist Austin Mast, a co-principal investigator on the grant and professor

A Florida Museum of Natural History study shows that mollusk fossils provide a reliable measure of human-driven changes in marine ecosystems and shifts in ocean biodiversity. Collecting data from the shells of dead mollusks is a low-impact way of glimpsing how oceans looked before pollution, habi
conducted the work as a postdoctoral researcher at the museum and is now an assistant professor