Faculty and Staff Dr. Andrea Torvinen, Collections Manager Florida Museum of Natural History University of Florida Gainesville, FL 32611-7800, USA E-mail: a.torvinen@ufl.edu https://florida.academia.edu/AndreaTorvinen Andrea is the collections manager of the Ceramic Technology L
modern specimens, she learned how to recognize the characteristic markers of these hand-built
Panthera onca Quick Facts Common Name: jaguar Fossils of jaguars in Florida are much more common than those of other contemporaneous large felids, such as the American lion and the sabertooths Smilodon fatalis and Dinobastis serus. The Pleistocene jaguars of North America were much large
On the other hand, the association of Panthera atrox with plains-adapted animals
Teleoceras proterum Quick Facts Common Name: Archer short-legged rhino The mounted skeleton on display at the Florida Museum of Natural History (see image) was constructed as part of a „live“ public display during the late 1970s using fossils from both the McGehee Farm and Love Bone Bed loc
On the other hand, further study resulted in some evidence that the isotopes in the
Editor’s Note: This article is an excerpt from the „Ancient Floridians“ chapter of „Florida’s Indians from Ancient Times to the Present,“ by Jerald T. Milanich, published by University Press of Florida in 1998. Since at least the 1920s, residents of Florida have been finding Indian artifacts
Some of the smaller pieces were smooth, and shaped as though made by hand but they
“I did hear about your hopefully temporary transfer into higher administrative realms. My only advice is to ditch it as soon as possible.� Noted evolutionary biologist and author Stephen Jay Gould typed up the preceding exhortation in a letter he wrote to Doug Jones in 1996, referencing his recent a
He maintained a steady hand through the economic downturn of 2008 and the sudden
The International Shark Attack File (ISAF) Databases of all sizes are traditionally assumed to be the domain of industry and the private sector, especially in the age of the “Internet of Things [IoT],� where sensor data from different internet-enabled devices is stored in aggregated forms for picki
data analysis is to transform information into a form that fits the question at hand
The selected projects are intended to communicate Earth systems science research to either K-12 students and teachers or lifelong learners. Â
scientists to communicate their work because they are the best source for first-hand
Mangroves Support: Microorganisms Algae Invertebrates Fish Reptiles and Amphibians Birds Mammals Microorganisms Mangroves are an important part of estuarine food webs, producing large amounts of leaf litter. Leaves drop from the mangrove trees and are quickly decompose
On the other hand, the American crocodile is quite rare, relying heavily on mangrove
The event celebrated the work of TESI collaborators who have excelled in Earth systems education, outreach, and communication.
even get her involved in outreach activities so she could experience them first-hand
Lab members (current and recent past) in bold Godden, G.T.*, Crowl, A.A.*, Patten, S.R., Abu, P., Hall, S., Johnston, M.O., Schemske, D.W., Barger, T.W., Pérez-Pérez, M.A., Herlihy, C.R., Delph, L.F., Blackwood, C.B., Case, A.L+., Cellinese, N+. 2025. Population-level phylogenomic analysis yields
Crowl, A., Visger, C., Mansion, G., Hand, R., Wu, H.
