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Barnacles Scientific name: Cirripedia (Infraorder) 1: Barnacles are crustaceans. Although they were once thought to be related to snails, it turns out that barnacles are actually related to crabs. If you look at the animal inside the hard plates, it is possible to recognize their crab-like bo
The favored technique is to let the water, wind, or other living creature do the
Dredging and filling Dredging and filling destroys seagrass habitat directly by digging and indirectly affects nearby habitats by suspending sediments. Dredging and filling activities cause major damage to Florida’s seagrass habitats. Dredging is used to create deeper waters for channels and canal
erosion: the wearing away of soil, rock, and sediments, etc. by the action of wind
It’s the end of the semester at UF which means we will soon be saying goodbye to our crack team of student assistants. Throughout this semester (and in many cases longer) they have tackled many collections tasks. This includes entering specimen data into a spreadsheet for importing, often from hand
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Project Archaeologist: Randee Fladeboe The remains of tropical macaws – genus Ara – have been widely found at several major pre-Hispanic sites in the Greater Southwest, as have remains of aviaries where live macaws were kept. Archaeologists generally view these animals as trade valuables, with ce
Mogollon 1250-1300 4 ASM pending Point of Pines Mogollon 1200-1450 27 ASM pending 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
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Our mission, should we choose to accept it, will be to find the worm Chaetopterus pergamentaceus from its type locality of „Antilles.“ Armed with that informative location description (thanks, Cuvier), Jenna’s keen sense of worm-dar, and Google Earth, we gladly accepted the mission and headed off to
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These first few days have been busy! We arrived Sunday evening after a quick 2 hour flight from Miami. We settled into our place, had a good meal and got up the next morning ready to get to work. We have been brought on board to do a biodiversity survey of the French Marine National Park on St. Mart
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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 in the
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
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
Unlike Ian, these storms were largely water events (not a huge wind event like Ian
