This directory lists faculty, staff, students, and associates affiliated with the University of Florida Herbarium (FLAS) collections in Dickinson Hall. If you do not find the person you are looking for in this list, try the following: Florida Museum of Natural History Directory University of
Professor, Plant Pathology Dept. trufflesmith@ufl.edu 352-273-2837 Dept. of Plant
Desmodus stocki Quick Facts Common Name: Stock’s vampire bat With a range extending to Virginia, this species lived further north than any other vampire bat, fossil or living. Desmodus stocki likely weighed about 50% more than the living vampire Desmodus rotundus. Its large, sharp canin
Classification Desmodus stocki Jones, 1958 Source of Species Name: This species is named for Professor
This post was written by guest blogger Noah J. D. DesRosiers, a research colleague who accompanied the FLMNH team on the KAUST Red Sea cruise. You can read more from him at www.naturenoah.com. “Thousands of miles from home, hundreds of miles from our institution, and thirty miles from any solid lan
Howard Choat, emeritus professor at James Cook University, studying biogeographic
What Do We Do? Research in the Environmental Archaeology Program The primary focus of the Environmental Archaeology Program is research into the ancient relationship between people and their environments, including all aspects of that relationship, from the biotic to the abiotic, and from the
Scientist), and deFrance (Affiliate Associate Curator, EA Program and Associate Professor
Prior to the first world war, sprawling European empires collectively controlled roughly 80% of Earth’s landmass. Following WWII, that percentage drastically shrank, as colonies and occupied territories successfully vied for their independence, leading many to assume that the colonial mindset of tak
experiments or make comparisons,” said senior author Alexis Mychajliw, an assistant professor
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Paleontology (352) 273-2110 Dickinson Hall tinyanso@ufl.edu Soltis Pamela Distinguished Professor
Alumni and Associates Sarah Allen Richard Barclay Nareerat Boonchai Judy Chen Yunfa Chen Zhiduan Chen Sarah Corbett Felipe De La Parra Min Deng David L. Dilcher Boglárka Erdei Meng Han Fabiany Herrera Shusheng Hu Carlos Jaramillo David Jarzen Hui Jia Natha
Manchester Department of Biology, University of Florida Current address: Assistant Professor
The first Collectors Day at the Florida Museum of Natural History was part of our International Museum Day celebration on May 18, 1980. It hosted 20 collections and highlighted the importance of them and museums. Our last Collectors Day in 2020 hosted over 110 collections with 2,100 visitors, conti
ago, the Florida Museum (formerly known as the Florida State Museum) began when a professor
Elizabeth “Liz” Wing arrived at the University of Florida in the mid-1950s with little more than a suitcase, less than a decade after the school began accepting women. As a master’s student with an incurable curiosity for “anything that cracked or crawled,” Wing was interested in animal anatomy a
Newsom, now a professor of anthropology at Flager College, was awarded a MacArthur
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Carr, University of Florida zoology professor and world authority on sea turtles.
