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Florida Museum scientists publishing the first study on butterflies and moths of Guantanamo Bay Naval Station have discovered vast biodiversity in an area previously unknown to researchers. Appearing in the Bulletin of the Allyn Museum Sept. 5, the study creates a baseline for understanding h
area that is useful as a baseline for continuing research, said Daniel Janzen, a professor

The Florida Museum of Natural History and Florida Museum University Teaching Committee recently announced the winners of the 2020 Austin Award and Bullen Award for student research and significant contributions to the development of museum collections and programs. Victor Perez, a geological scie
Akito Kawahara, a UF associate professor and associate curator at the Florida Museum

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

While some might press flowers into books to preserve their beauty, researcher Mark Whitten does it to preserve history. Whitten, a botanist in the Florida Museum of Natural History Herbarium, glues pressed plants onto archival paper and stores them as specimens in the museum’s collection. He
Pam Soltis, a distinguished professor and curator at the museum, worked with colleagues

A new book co-authored by a Florida Museum researcher examines the rich and distinct histories of the Caribbean islands before the arrival of Europeans and presents findings from the first excavation of a Carib culture site. In “The Caribbean before Columbus,” Florida Museum of Natural History Ca
Natural History Caribbean Archaeology Curator William Keegan and Corinne Hofman, a professor

A group of scientists has created the first comprehensive evolutionary reconstruction of the many families of flowering plants, an achievement that could aid in the search for plant-based cures for diseases and improve agricultural crops. The group, which includes two Florida Museum of Natura
“This is the first crack at it,” said University of Florida botany professor Doug

There’s a whole world behind the scenes at natural history museums that most people never see. Museum collections house millions upon millions of dinosaur bones, pickled sharks, dried leaves and every other part of the natural world you can think of – more than could ever be put on display. Instead,
Study co-author Pamela Soltis, Florida Museum distinguished professor and curator

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — The Florida Museum of Natural History recently received a Duke Energy Foundation grant for pollinator research related to vegetation management in utility rights of way. Jaret Daniels, director of the museum’s McGuire Center for Lepidoptera and Biodiversity and a University
McGuire Center for Lepidoptera and Biodiversity and a University of Florida associate 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

The migratory monarch butterfly, Danaus plexippus plexippus, has received much publicity lately, portrayed by the media as a threatened or endangered species. Some of my friends outside of entomological circles, even those who would normally say “a good insect is a dead insect,” have asked me for my
Brower, was a professor of Zoology at the University of Florida between 1980 and