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Get your toddler excited about exploring the great outdoors! Join Florida Museum nature ambassadors for a safe and interactive nature walk on Tot Tuesdays. While our exhibits building is closed, we will still be exploring the natural world at the University of Florida Natural Area Teaching Lab and s
Oct. 14- Senses Oct. 21- Camping Oct. 28- Bones, FREE DAY November: Nov. 4- Wind
Our last days on St. Martin were a flurry of activity. Our last day was spent draining ethanol in preparation for our flight and packing up all our specimens and gear. The four of us who were returning to Gainesville checked a total of 9 bags eliciting the curiosity of our fellow passengers and the
Martin wrap-up Melanie on Come rain or shine or wind or surf or ear infections…
Human Impacts Mangroves are victims of dredging, filling, and diking, water pollution from oil spills and herbicides, and urban development within the state of Florida. Dredging Dredging suffocates mangroves when the aerial roots become flooded, preventing oxygen from reaching the root system
erosion: the wearing away of soil, rock, and sediments, etc. by the action of wind
How does someone do field science in the age of COVID-19? Your guess is as good as mine. After waiting for more than a year to get outside, the opportunity came in late spring this year at UF’s IFAS Cedar Key Nature Coast Biological Station. Our goals were to tag ten or more baby bull sharks (Carcha
The wind had picked up, and the waves were growing large.
Here in southwest Florida, we know that major hurricanes can upend our daily lives and routines leading to weeks, months, and many times, even years of recovery. Often, we can’t exactly duplicate pre-hurricane conditions. That’s the same for the natural world. Ecologists regard hurricanes as “dis
Heritage Trail. Unlike Ian, these storms were largely water events (not a huge wind
I hope this post finds you safe and healthy. Â Here at the Florida Museum, things have been shut down for a while, and it has given us a great opportunity to tackle all the parts of our job that our job prevents us from doing. Â Now that we are not out in the field, or physically in the museum answeri
Martin wrap-up Melanie on Come rain or shine or wind or surf or ear infections…
This Halloween season, we’re celebrating a part of Florida’s natural history that’s often underappreciated: fungi, parasites and wasps. We’ve also thrown in a few plants for good measure. Each of these groups is an integral part of Florida’s biodiverse ecosystems, and each provides a uniquely lurid
the cicada’s head and emerge above ground, where its spores are distributed by wind
At the beginning of the year, Gustav and I traveled to Hong Kong to help with an ARMS project led by David Baker’s lab at Hong Kong University. Gustav is highly sought-after for his extensive invertebrate expertise, and I…know a lot about putting animals in jars. If you don’t know what ARMS are,
Martin wrap-up Melanie on Come rain or shine or wind or surf or ear infections…
Morphological and Physiological adaptions are required for: Physical Stability Salt Tolerance Anaerobic Sediments Reproduction Physical Stability Adaptations Root adaptations make it possible for mangroves to live in the soft sediments along the shoreline Root adaptations increas
terrestrial plants, mangroves reproduce by flowering with pollination occurring via wind
As part of our celebration of the RRC’s 25th anniversary, we invited Bill Marquardt, RRC’s co-founder and first director, to summarize some of the key events in its history. Close your eyes for a minute and listen. Unless you are hearing-impaired, you are likely to notice something – traffi
If you are outdoors, perhaps you’ll hear a bird’s song or the rustle of wind
