David C. Blackburn

Associate Director of Research and Collections
Chair, Department of Natural History
Curator of Amphibians & Reptiles
Florida Museum of Natural History, University of Florida

Email: dblackburn@flmnh.ufl.edu

Affiliate Faculty in UF’s Departments of Biology and Wildlife Ecology & Conservation, Tropical Conservation and Development program, School of Natural Resources and Environment, Center for African Studies, and School of Art + Art History.

Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science
Fellow, California Academy of Sciences
Fellow, SEC Academic Leadership Program, 2024–2025
UF Research Foundation Term Professor, 2023–2026, University of Florida
University Term Professor, 2021–2024, University of Florida

Associate Editor, Integrative Organismal Biology
Associate Editor, Proceedings of the Royal Society B, Biological Sciences

Lead PI, oVert Thematic Collections Network (2017–2023; paper in BioScience; oVert data are on MorphoSource)

Associate Chair, 2022–2024, Florida Museum of Natural History
Curator, 2021–present, Florida Museum of Natural History
Associate Curator, 2015–2021, Florida Museum of Natural History
Associate Curator, 2014–2015, California Academy of Sciences
Assistant Curator, 2011–2014, California Academy of Sciences

Postdoctoral Researcher, 2008–2011, University of Kansas
Ph.D., 2008, Harvard University
A.B., 2001, University of Chicago