This summer, Environmental Leaders Fellows participated in two SEFS teacher professional development workshops.
They learned how to train a computer model to use shape, color and texture to identify
Lorena Endara, a Florida Museum of Natural History research assistant, discusses why she became a biologist and what inspired her to research orchids in her home country of Ecuador. Interview and videos produced by Erin Rauch for Explore Research at the University of Florida. https://www.you
During the time in the field I have been able to train students and also guides.
The National Science Foundation awarded the Florida Museum of Natural History a $500,000 grant to develop a research coordination network for the emerging field of conservation paleobiology. Conservation paleobiology uses fossils and other archives of the past to shed light on how natural habitat
Additionally, the project will result in free online webinars to train teachers,
Join us for an inspiring lunch workshop featuring speakers at the forefront of environmental education, civic engagement and climate action.
There she trains about 70% of Austria’s future biology teachers and researches how
Letter from the McGuire Center’s Director It has been 20 years since the McGuire Center for Lepidoptera and Biodiversity opened thanks to the visionary support of Dr. Bill and Nadine McGuire and the dedicated commitment of founding director Dr. Thomas Emmel. We are proud of what has been accomplish
McGuire Center students train teachers in molecular techniques.
With the goal of promoting life-long learning, University of Florida researchers will use a four-year, $1.97 million National Science Foundation grant to create a nationwide network of amateur and professional paleontologists. Fossil clubs across the country function independently and do not
As part of this initiative, museum professionals will train amateurs to digitize
A Florida Museum of Natural History researcher has received $150,000 from the National Science Foundation to study endangered moth species in Hawaii that haven’t been seen for nearly 100 years and were believed to be extinct. Assistant curator of Lepidoptera Akito Kawahara and his team will trave
team will give lectures and field trips to high school and college students and train
Are you an undergraduate at the University of Florida looking to inspire the UF community to care for Florida’s springs? Thanks to funding from the UF Gulf Scholars Program, the University of Florida (UF) Thompson Earth Systems Institute (TESI) is hosting an Environmental Leaders Fellowship where s
will assist with coordinating and implementing a springs stewardship program to train
University of Florida plant biologist Pam Soltis will receive the Southeastern Universities Research Association’s 2018 Distinguished Scientist Award, given annually to a scientist whose extraordinary work fulfills the association’s mission to “advance collaborative research and strengthen the scien
lab of more than a dozen graduate students and postdoctoral fellows and routinely trains
Megan Ennes, assistant curator of museum education at the Florida Museum of Natural History, has been named the new director of the University of Florida Thompson Earth Systems Institute. In her role, which begins July 1, Ennes will strengthen and forge new collaborations with researchers at UF and
National Network for Ocean and Climate Change Interpretation, an organization that trains
