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352) 273-1941 Dickinson Hall bsnipes@flmnh.ufl.edu Soltis Pamela Distinguished Professor
Florida Museum of Natural History
352) 273-1941 Dickinson Hall bsnipes@flmnh.ufl.edu Soltis Pamela Distinguished Professor
The first Collectors Day at the Florida Museum of Natural History was part of our International Museum Day celebration on May 18, 1980. It hosted 20 collections and highlighted the importance of them and museums. Our last Collectors Day in 2020 hosted over 110 collections with 2,100 visitors, conti
ago, the Florida Museum (formerly known as the Florida State Museum) began when a professor
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Carr, University of Florida zoology professor and world authority on sea turtles.
Our horses breathed deep but kept a steady pace as we ascended to 10,000 feet above sea level, scanning the greenery for the first glimpse of orange. The air was crisp, the February sun warm on our backs – perfect conditions for butterflies awakening from a chilly night’s slumber. Every fall,
numbers firsthand, and the numbers were spectacular,” said Daniels, who is also a professor
Elizabeth “Liz” Wing arrived at the University of Florida in the mid-1950s with little more than a suitcase, less than a decade after the school began accepting women. As a master’s student with an incurable curiosity for “anything that cracked or crawled,” Wing was interested in animal anatomy a
Newsom, now a professor of anthropology at Flager College, was awarded a MacArthur
It is of vital importance to, on occasion, consider how little we know about the spinning rock we all live on. Take coral reefs, for example. Given how much they’ve been studied, you’d think we’ve learned just about everything about them by now. But talk to a marine biologist, and they will quickly
to us or haven’t been formally described or named,” said Catherine McFadden, a professor
Department of Natural History Research Seminar Series Spring 2025 January 28, 3p.m.: McGuire Center “Expanding Horizons in Lepidoptera Research” Speaker: Paul Masonick Institution: McGuire Center for Lepidoptera and Biodiversity, University of Florida Title: Convergent evolution of antipredat
Officer, Convention on Biological Diversity, UN Biodiversity Delano Lewis, Associate Professor
Millennium Park University of Florida Vertebrate Fossil Localities PI018 and PI028 Location The site is located within the boundaries of Boca Ciega Millennium Park, Seminole, Pinellas County County, Florida. 27.83º N; 82.81º W. Age Latest Pleistocene Epoch; late Rancholabrean land mamma
Eckerd College students and professor Peter Meylan excavating at the Millennium Park
Early in May 2023, a small team of marine biologists arrived in the Saudi Arabian city of Jeddah. They’d flown into the local airport from Guam, the United States, Portugal, Spain and Japan, and they’d soon rendezvous with colleagues from the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST
made the long trip from Florida to Saudi Arabia to work with Susana Carvalho, a professor
scale up, said botanist Austin Mast, a co-principal investigator on the grant and professor