Lorena Endara, a Florida Museum of Natural History research assistant, discusses why she became a biologist and what inspired her to research orchids in her home country of Ecuador. Interview and videos produced by Erin Rauch for Explore Research at the University of Florida. https://www.you
During the time in the field I have been able to train students and also guides.
A Florida Museum of Natural History researcher has received $150,000 from the National Science Foundation to study endangered moth species in Hawaii that haven’t been seen for nearly 100 years and were believed to be extinct. Assistant curator of Lepidoptera Akito Kawahara and his team will trave
team will give lectures and field trips to high school and college students and train
With the goal of promoting life-long learning, University of Florida researchers will use a four-year, $1.97 million National Science Foundation grant to create a nationwide network of amateur and professional paleontologists. Fossil clubs across the country function independently and do not
As part of this initiative, museum professionals will train amateurs to digitize
If you have a computer, you can help move museum research forward in three minutes or less. Community scientists can use Notes from Nature, a digital platform funded by the National Science Foundation, to contribute to research around the world by transcribing handwritten information about museum
“Label Babel 2” is an expedition that helps train algorithms to autodetect these
Four UF students work to promote two of TESI’s digital outreach pillars: its Earth to Florida newsletter and its Know Your Florida campaign.
who is TESI’s communications manager, said the Institute functions to not only train
Megan Ennes, assistant curator of museum education at the Florida Museum of Natural History, has been named the new director of the University of Florida Thompson Earth Systems Institute. In her role, which begins July 1, Ennes will strengthen and forge new collaborations with researchers at UF and
National Network for Ocean and Climate Change Interpretation, an organization that trains
University of Florida plant biologist Pam Soltis will receive the Southeastern Universities Research Association’s 2018 Distinguished Scientist Award, given annually to a scientist whose extraordinary work fulfills the association’s mission to “advance collaborative research and strengthen the scien
lab of more than a dozen graduate students and postdoctoral fellows and routinely trains
As a vegan and animal lover, lab technician Samantha Epstein had always envisioned a future working with wildlife. „I definitely love working with live specimens, studying their behavior,“ she said. „I never really thought I’d be working with dead stuff.“ Lab techs and volunteers are an in
lab about two years ago as a volunteer, and now one of her jobs is to recruit and train
The Florida Museum of Natural History is expanding this month with the opening of a state-of-the-art special collections building on the University of Florida campus. The museum has functioned as Florida’s official repository of the state’s biodiversity and cultural heritage for more than 100 yea
Museum faculty also train hundreds of University of Florida undergraduate and graduate
What is oVert? oVert, short for openVertebrate, is a new initiative to provide free, digital 3-D vertebrate anatomy models and data to researchers, educators, students and the public. Over the next four years, the oVert team will CT scan 20,000 fluid-preserved specimens from U.S. museum collections
The oVert team will train museum specialists to produce, curate and distribute 3-
