What is hidden in plain sight in your backyard? Backyard Bioblitz Bonanza Instructions Ages: 5+ years Time Required: 15-45 minutes Materials Pencil and chart “Backyard Biodiversity Bonanza -What I found on my Bioblitz!” (see PDF) Hula hoop or 8 feet of string or rope Try This!
Don’t have a hula hoop handy?
The Museum’s Spring plant sale is one of the largest of the year, featuring more than 100 species of Florida- and pollinator-friendly plants. Discover which pollinator species you can attract and learn about the butterfly-friendly plants that work best in your landscape. Accent, host, native and ne
Parking & pick-up: Check out our handy parking lot map to preview the plan to manage
Bill started working with computers with his father at the age of 10 in Boca Raton, FL (the birthplace of the IBM Personal Computer). He started with a TRS-80 Model 1, and upgraded to the IBM PC when it came out. Bill has some (not so) fond memories of having to upgrade the computer memory by addin
computer memory by adding multiple tiny chips to a memory board, but this came in handy
Florida hosts all four known species of sirens, a strange aquatic family of salamanders. With frilly gills for breathing underwater and no hind legs, these salamanders live in ponds, lakes and weedy ditches and can grow up to 3 feet. Summary Greater Siren (Siren lacertina) From St. Johns River,
Pretty handy, huh? Sirens of all sizes have this ability.
Introduction There are two basic types of baskets: utilitarian and non-utilitarian. Utilitarian baskets are functional, and the Seminole and Miccosukee made baskets for collecting, processing, and storing food and personal items. During the 20th century, Seminole and Miccosukee peoples began making
Harvesting crops was one task where the pack basket came in handy.
If you need any confirmation that passion is priceless – look no further than volunteer research associate Bob Belmont. After retiring from a long career in pest control, he turned to the Florida Museum as a productive way to fill his time and help grow the diverse collections of the McGuire Cent
His background in pest control also comes in handy – he monitors specimens carefully
Earlier this year, Nicolas Gauthier joined the Florida Museum of Natural History as its first curator of artificial intelligence, part of a broad initiative by the University of Florida to spur innovation in AI and data science. Gauthier has spent over a decade studying the cultural history o
That’s where AI methods come in handy.
Useful Tools for the Florida Fossil Hunter Maps are important tools to anyone working in the field, especially in unfamiliar terrain. One of the more useful maps for the avocational and professional paleontologist alike is the topographic map. Topographic maps have many applications in Florida.
A handy index showing the locations and names of all 1,037 quadrangle maps covering
Hawk moths are known for being some of the largest night fliers in the insect world. With wingspans of more than four inches, many species are big enough to comfortably fill the palm of your hand. Thanks to the work of a small team of researchers at the Florida Museum of Natural History, three new s
The variation in the length of their tongues comes in handy for researchers, who
That sea levels are rising is hardly new news–they have been doing so since the end of the last major glaciation some 18,000 years ago. The current rate of rise, a little more than a tenth of an inch per year, is also not that unusual–6,000–8,000 years ago the seas were often rising 10 times faster.
with a paint brush attached to the end, but tall ones needed be ascended with our handy
