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Curator Fred Thompson honored with lifetime achievement award – Research News

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Following more than 40 years of fieldwork, Florida Museum of Natural History malacology curator Fred Thompson was recently recognized for his research on freshwater organisms. The Florida Association of Benthologists presented Thompson with the Award for Excellence in Contributions to Florida Ben
Beautification Award Awards & Honors Charles Cobb named UF Research Foundation 2025 professor

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Duke Energy Foundation grant to fund pollinator research – Pressroom

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GAINESVILLE, Fla. — The Florida Museum of Natural History recently received a Duke Energy Foundation grant for pollinator research related to vegetation management in utility rights of way. Jaret Daniels, director of the museum’s McGuire Center for Lepidoptera and Biodiversity and a University
McGuire Center for Lepidoptera and Biodiversity and a University of Florida associate professor

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Austin, Bullen 2020 student research award winners named – Research News

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The Florida Museum of Natural History and Florida Museum University Teaching Committee recently announced the winners of the 2020 Austin Award and Bullen Award for student research and significant contributions to the development of museum collections and programs. Victor Perez, a geological scie
Akito Kawahara, a UF associate professor and associate curator at the Florida Museum

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New book reveals untold history of pre-colonial Caribbean islands – Research News

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A new book co-authored by a Florida Museum researcher examines the rich and distinct histories of the Caribbean islands before the arrival of Europeans and presents findings from the first excavation of a Carib culture site. In “The Caribbean before Columbus,” Florida Museum of Natural History Ca
Natural History Caribbean Archaeology Curator William Keegan and Corinne Hofman, a professor

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Herbarium specimens provide snapshots of plants’ past, data for future – Research News

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While some might press flowers into books to preserve their beauty, researcher Mark Whitten does it to preserve history. Whitten, a botanist in the Florida Museum of Natural History Herbarium, glues pressed plants onto archival paper and stores them as specimens in the museum’s collection. He
Pam Soltis, a distinguished professor and curator at the museum, worked with colleagues

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Guantanamo Bay Lepidoptera study sets baseline for future research – Research News

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Florida Museum scientists publishing the first study on butterflies and moths of Guantanamo Bay Naval Station have discovered vast biodiversity in an area previously unknown to researchers. Appearing in the Bulletin of the Allyn Museum Sept. 5, the study creates a baseline for understanding h
area that is useful as a baseline for continuing research, said Daniel Janzen, a professor

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Seeing the forest for the trees: Tree diversity is directly correlated with productivity in eastern U.S. forests – Research News

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When scientists and policymakers make tough calls on which areas to prioritize for conservation, biodiversity is often their top consideration. Environments with more diversity support a greater number of species and provide more ecosystem services, making them the obvious choice. There’s just on
mutually exclusive measurements,” said co-author Douglas Soltis, a distinguished professor

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Mollusk graveyards are time machines to oceans’ pristine past – Research News

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A Florida Museum of Natural History study shows that mollusk fossils provide a reliable measure of human-driven changes in marine ecosystems and shifts in ocean biodiversity. Collecting data from the shells of dead mollusks is a low-impact way of glimpsing how oceans looked before pollution, habi
conducted the work as a postdoctoral researcher at the museum and is now an assistant professor

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iDigBio receives $20 million from NSF to sustain U.S. museum digitization efforts – Research News

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T he National Science Foundation has awarded iDigBio nearly $20 million to continue its mission of digitizing natural history collections nationwide, making them available online to researchers, educators and community scientists around the world. For the past decade, iDigBio, a collaborative
rates, said botanist Austin Mast, a co-principal investigator on the grant and professor

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Botanists create “supertree” of evolution for flowering plants – Research News

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A group of scientists has created the first comprehensive evolutionary reconstruction of the many families of flowering plants, an achievement that could aid in the search for plant-based cures for diseases and improve agricultural crops. The group, which includes two Florida Museum of Natura
“This is the first crack at it,” said University of Florida botany professor Doug

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