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We know students participating in our Discovering the Calusa field trip to the Calusa Heritage Trail enjoy learning about archaeology, the estuary, and the Calusa Indians but discerning if our activities are effective in teaching specific concepts requires assessment. This season we are surveying
Soon after she sent a thank you note and wrote that students were able to make “connections
The Ripley P. Bullen Award For Student Excellence In Florida/Circum-Caribbean Anthropology Research honors long-time Florida Museum of Natural History curator in archaeology, Ripley Bullen. The award recognizes a University of Florida undergraduate or graduate student for excellence in research in t
faculty and staff supervisors early in the Spring semester and nominations should be sent
The Friends of the Randell Research Center have responded in a big way to the $50,000 challenge gift opportunity offered on March 2 by Paul and Warren Miller and Dwight and Sue Sipprelle (see Friends newsletter, vol. 7, no. 1). Donations to the Building Fund ranged from $15 to $10,000, and
The Millers and Sipprelles have sent their matching checks.
The International Shark Attack File (est. 1958) is the only scientifically-generated database that documents and monitors shark bites globally. ISAF data access is heavily regulated to maintain the integrity of the data and protect victims and their families according to state and federal privacy la
Review processing times vary, but decisions should be sent within a month of submission
iDigBio, the National Science Foundation-sponsored project to help digitize the nation’s natural history collections, now houses more than 100 million specimen records in its online database, offering access to one of the largest virtual collections of life on Earth. Natural history collections w
Darwin may have sent it to zoologist Louis Agassiz in Neuchatel, Switzerland, where
Native to tropical Asia, the Air Potato thrives in Florida due to the warm climate – it can grow 8 inches a day! These plants grow thick and block sunlight to other plants, and so must be removed and destroyed to prevent native habitat destruction. Summary Air Potato (Dioscorea bulbifera) Colle
Department of Agriculture sent a sample of air potato for assessment as an ornamental
Reading Nevling, Lorin I., Jr. 1973. Report of the committee for recommendations in desirable procedures in herbarium practice and ethics, II. Brittonia 25(3): 307-310. Loans from FLAS Loans from FLAS Policies Destructive Sampling Policies Photograph Agreement Step-by-step R
Choose specimens to be sent (leave some behind for id use). Repair.
Florida has one of the richest fossil records, both invertebrate and vertebrate (and to a much lesser degree botanical), of any place in the World. With such a wealth of paleontological resources available to collectors, it is not surprising that numerous clubs have been organized around the state t
New or updated information may be sent to the museum’s webmaster here.
The Oliver L. Austin Jr. Award For Graduate Student Excellence in Natural Science Research honors long-time Florida Museum of Natural History curator of ornithology, Oliver Austin. The award recognizes a University of Florida graduate student for excellence in research in the natural sciences. Th
Nominations should be sent to the chair of the University Teaching Committee.
Fossils of bizarre, armored amphibians known as albanerpetontids provide the oldest evidence of a slingshot-style tongue, a new Science study shows. Despite having lizardlike claws, scales and tails, albanerpetontids – mercifully called “albies” for short – were amphibians, not reptiles. Their li
Per Daza’s recommendation, Peretti sent the collection to the University of Texas
