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Teaching Pavilion Finished – Randell Research Center

https://www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/rrc/blog/teaching-pavilion-finished/

Our teaching pavilion on Waterfront Drive is finally finished. We broke ground for the pavilion, classroom, and book/gift shop on April 3, 2003, following over a year of site preparation and archaeological research at the building site. Major gifts and donated services got us off to a good
Meanwhile, with repair funds and all permits finally in hand, our RRC staff has moved

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Hundreds Attend Calusa Heritage Day – Randell Research Center

https://www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/rrc/blog/hundreds-attend-calusa-heritage-day/

On March 25, 2017, more than 800 people visited the Randell Research Center to enjoy a day of speakers, exhibits, and guided tours. The RRC classroom hosted displays on finds from the Blueberry site in Highlands County (Nate Lawres), recent Pineland and Mound Key excavations (Karen Walker and Jeann
Visitor tries her hand at throwing the atlatl, while FPAN archaeologist Rachael Kangas

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Archaeology? Kids Dig It! – Randell Research Center

https://www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/rrc/blog/archaeology-kids-dig-it/

We’ve had a lot of visitors this year, with regularly scheduled Wednesday tours well attended through the season. But beginning in March, kid’s tours really bring the Calusa Heritage Trail to life. More than a dozen large school groups visited the site this spring, with an average group siz
our own island kids from Pine Island Elementary; they have lunches and water in hand

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Researchers begin mission Friday to study Gulf of Mexico biodiversity – Research News

https://www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/science/researchers-begin-mission-friday-to-study-gulf-of-mexico-biodiversity/

A group of 23 researchers led by Florida Museum scientist Gustav Paulay will leave from St. Petersburg Friday on an expedition to survey the biodiversity of the Gulf of Mexico’s ocean floor. Funded by BP through the Florida Institute of Oceanography, the scientists will make the 10-day trip aboar
The hand-held device carefully vacuums tiny marine organisms easily missed by eye

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Frolicking bears and other oddities – Research News

https://www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/science/frolicking-bears-and-other-oddities/

Several years ago a University of Florida librarian handed me a copy of a recently donated 1873 newspaper article taken from the New York Weekly Sun. Unsigned, the article included a wonderful account of a visit to Turtle Mound, an archaeological site in modern Volusia County, just south of New Smyr
Twenty years later he was back to witness first-hand the initial efforts to drain

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Scientific Illustrations – High School – Panama Canal Project (PCP PIRE)

https://www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/panama-pire/pcppireteach/scientific-illustrations-high-school/

These lessons can be completed as a small continuous unit or you can take more time and spread it out amongst other units/lessons. Lessons & Teacher’s Notes Teacher Notes Scientific Illustration Handout – Helpful Tips: This is given to students at the beginning as a resource they will use t
gives you a good idea of what the original student wrote), students may need to hand

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Teachers receive fossils, create lesson plans at museum workshop – Research News

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Florida Museum of Natural History researchers and amateur paleontologists teamed up to give K-12 teachers a crash course that came with some impressive party favors: real fossils. Through a four-day workshop in August 2017, called FOSSILs4Teachers!, 30 teachers from across the U.S. converged on a
of them, but that’s not the same as when they actually get to hold them in their hand

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Saving McCarty Woods – Laboratory of Molecular Systematics & Evolutionary Genetics

https://www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/soltis-lab/2021/11/16/saving-mccarty-woods/

Written by: Roxanne Hoorn The Florida Museum of Natural History (FM) is promoting biodiversity and conservation efforts around the world, but staff and students are making sure we don’t forget about our own precious natural areas, right here on the University of Florida campus. “I mean, here we ar
We will again bring water, gloves, garbage bags, loppers, small hand saws, and doughnuts

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Secret Morphology – McGuire Center

https://www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/mcguire/news/2022/02/secret-morphology/

Lepidoptera species generally have different wing patterns which help identify them. Nevertheless, look-alikes and plain colored species can be a challenge, especially with tiny moths. Long before DNA barcoding became a popular identification tool, Lepidopterists relied on what is still the inexpens
dissection is very low-cost tool which does not require much more than a steady hand

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Shark Attacks in Perspective – International Shark Attack File

https://www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/shark-attacks/odds/perspective/

Say the word „shark“ and the first image most people conjure up is a Jaws-inspired white shark devouring unsuspecting bathers while well-meaning authorities and scientists helplessly stand by. Shark attack is probably the most feared natural danger to man, surpassing even hurricanes, tornad
Sharks, on the other hand, have been documented attackers (and sometime consumers

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