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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

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

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

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

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

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

The migratory monarch butterfly, Danaus plexippus plexippus, has received much publicity lately, portrayed by the media as a threatened or endangered species. Some of my friends outside of entomological circles, even those who would normally say “a good insect is a dead insect,” have asked me for my
Brower, was a professor of Zoology at the University of Florida between 1980 and

In late 1891, Peter Henry Rolfs began collecting specimens of wild plants in Florida, essentially marking the formation of the University of Florida Herbarium. The University of Florida Herbarium (FLAS) contains about a half million specimens, including about 350,000 vascular plants, 70,000 bryophy
Lake City (Columbia County), through the efforts of Peter Henry Rolfs (1865-1944), professor

Florida Museum researchers‘ discovery of a giant fossilized snake in Colombia reveals a picture of warmer tropics ruled by beasts larger than anyone imagined. The largest snake the world has ever known – as long as a school bus and as heavy as a small car – ruled tropical ecosystems only 6 mi
Greene, a professor in the department of ecology and evolutionary biology at Cornell

The great white shark is one of the largest living predatory animals and a magnet for media sensationalism, yet its evolutionary history is as misunderstood as its role as a menace. Originally classified as a direct relative of megatooth sharks, the white shark’s evolutionary history has been
say it is “a friendly disagreement,” according to Michael Gottfried, an associate professor