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During its more than 100-year existence, the Florida Museum of Natural History has inspired people to learn and care about life on Earth and make a positive difference in its future. Similarly, Linda and Ken McGurn’s life work has centered on leaving places better than they found them. Now the Mc
Lights Out’ project aims to reduce bird collision deaths Hires & Promotions Megan Ennes

Welcome to the Florida Museum of Natural History’s annual report for fiscal year 2023. It’s been an exciting year with many changes for both the University of Florida and the museum!
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Our pilot program, the TESI Environmental Leaders Fellowship, brought together students from diverse majors and backgrounds and provided them with the knowledge, skills, confidence, and network to advocate for the planet as they take on leadership roles in their respective careers. Funded by a fa
Thompson Earth Systems Institute Email: rlburton@floridamuseum.ufl.edu   Megan Ennes

Over the past 4 million years, North American fauna migrated to South America via the Isthmus of Panama. Florida Museum scientists and K-12 educators recently made the same trek to dig up the past. A new $350,000 National Science Foundation grant is engaging Florida Museum of Natural History
Scholars to tackle climate change on Pine Island, Florida Hires & Promotions Megan Ennes

The Florida Museum of Natural History welcomes Advait Jukar as its newest curator of vertebrate paleontology. He replaces curator emeritus Bruce MacFadden, who worked in the position for 47 years before retiring last month. Jukar primarily studies the fossils of large mammals that went extinct af
Museum of Natural History as curator of ornithology Hires & Promotions Megan Ennes

In a letter to his friend and colleague, 19th century naturalist Charles Darwin referred to the sudden and rapid diversification of angiosperms, or flowering plants, as „an abominable mystery.“ Today, University of Florida researchers are part of a nationwide team preparing to open a door into a
smallest ever discovered Awards & Honors National Academy of Sciences names Megan Ennes

It’s an unusual collaboration. Botanists and archaeologists don’t often work together, unless they’re studying the way people have used plants through time. But a new four-year grant from the National Science Foundation is shaking things up. It provides more than $1 million to study how Mediterranea
Biodiversity award winners Awards & Honors National Academy of Sciences names Megan Ennes

Earlier this year, the Florida Museum of Natural History welcomed Andrea Torvinen as the collections manager of the Ceramic Technology Laboratory and Florida Archaeology. Since 2005, Torvinen has worked as an archaeologist on projects in West Mexico and the U.S. Southwest, as well as Illinois and
Museum of Natural History as curator of ornithology Hires & Promotions Megan Ennes

We are excited to welcome our newest curator, Vaughn Shirey, to the Florida Museum of Natural History. Working in the McGuire Center for Lepidoptera and Biodiversity, Shirey will help study, grow and digitize our moth and butterfly collections. Shirey is a conservation biologist who uses museum s
enlist additional troops in an evolutionary arms race Hires & Promotions Megan Ennes

An international team of scientists has mapped the evolutionary relationships between China’s 30,000 flowering plant species, uncovering a distinct regional pattern in biodiversity. Eastern China is a floral “museum” with a rich array of ancient lineages and distant relatives while the western provi
biodiversity and more Awards & Honors National Academy of Sciences names Megan Ennes