FLORIDA MUSEUM
ANNUAL REPORT
2022-2023

Message From the Director

Greetings and welcome to the Florida Museum of Natural History’s annual report for fiscal year 2023. It’s been an exciting year with many changes for both the University of Florida and the museum. UF said goodbye to former President Kent Fuchs and longtime Provost Joe Glover and in the spring welcomed to campus its 13th president, former U.S. Senator Dr. Ben Sasse. The museum had its share of changes as well. Perhaps the most significant of these was the completion and opening of our new Special Collections Building just south of Powell Hall.

Our fourth major building on the UF campus (in addition to Dickinson, Powell and McGuire halls), this 23,500-square-foot, purpose-built facility, funded by UF, will house the museum’s more than 4 million specimens preserved in alcohol (approximately 60,000 gallons of primarily ethanol). These specimens were collected from more than 300,000 localities worldwide and represent a major biological research resource for the scientific community. Each year approximately 18,000 specimens are loaned to researchers and institutions worldwide who use them to make new discoveries. The “wet collections,” as they’re known, involve large portions of our herpetology (reptiles and amphibians) and invertebrate zoology collections as well as the entire collection of ichthyology (fishes) — the second-largest collection in the United States, after the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History — which is the largest component.

The building was completed in a little over one year by The Haskell Co. of Jacksonville, and the move-in of collections began in September 2022. So far, all the specimens from herpetology and invertebrate zoology have been transferred from Dickinson Hall. The move of fishes, however, is a massive undertaking and ongoing but should finish within the next year.

 

Some of the building’s state-of-the-art features include specialized climate controls to keep temperatures cool and relative humidity low; spark-free lighting fixtures; a sprinkler system; floor drains and underground storage tanks in case of spills; large-scale fume hoods; temperature and air-quality sensors; a backup power generator; and systems designed to provide the highest level of life safety and fire suppression. Offices for curatorial faculty and collection staff are located adjacent to large laboratory spaces outfitted for researcher and student use.

 

The museum’s senior associate director, Beverly Sensbach, oversaw the construction process along with Jim Vignola of UF’s Planning, Design and Construction Division and the curators and collection managers. They did a fabulous job managing all the moving parts involved in this complex process. Remarkably, Beverly also edited our award-winning book, “All Things Beautiful: Wonders from the Collections of the Florida Museum of Natural History” with text by Heather Dewar, and photos and design by Kristen Grace and Hollis Wooley, respectively, both on the museum’s staff. The book is an outgrowth of our 100th anniversary celebration and exhibition in 2017. And as if that wasn’t enough, Beverly also oversaw the process of museum reaccreditation from the American Alliance of Museums, which we were awarded in March. This is quite an accomplishment for the Florida Museum, as only about 3% of museums nationwide achieve this distinction. Without question, Beverly was an essential ingredient in the museum’s signature accomplishments this year.

And finally, I’m pleased to report that the museum witnessed its highest annual attendance ever, a quarter million visitors! As the director, I couldn’t be prouder of the museum’s faculty, staff and students as they continue to perform at a very high level. I hope you enjoy the rest of this report and thank you for your continued support of the Florida Museum of Natural History.

 

Douglas S. Jones
Director

colorful sea urchin with long thick spines

Cover image: Detail, slate pencil urchin
Heterocentrotus trigonarius

All Things Beautiful: Wonders from the Collections of the Florida Museum of Natural History

Created to commemorate the Florida Museum’s 100th anniversary as the state museum, “All Things Beautiful: Wonders from the Collections of the Florida Museum of Natural History” was published in December 2022. Winner of ten national and international awards to date, “All Things Beautiful” highlights the remarkable animals, plants, fossils, and cultural heritage materials that make up the forty million specimens and objects of the Florida Museum of Natural History.

 

Focusing on rare, beautiful, and fascinating examples, this volume is a celebration of the beauty and significance of natural history collections. Florida Museum photographer Kristen B. Grace reveals extraordinary color, form, pattern, and texture in stunning images. Environmental journalist Heather Dewar captures the vast scope of the museum’s activities to document and discover all forms of life on Earth. Its ten chapters explore diverse themes including the collector’s impulse, fields of adventure, remembering the lost, and saving the imperiled; profiles of pathbreaking curators document the excitement of exploration and generating new knowledge, from living in the field with Komodo dragons to discovering new species and using cutting-edge technologies to see and share collections worldwide.

 

The images, along with their compelling stories, will inspire those who love nature, science, museums, and the thrill of discovery.

Special Collections Building

Construction of the Florida Museum’s new collections building officially complete

The museum celebrated the completion of its long-awaited Special Collections Building this year. The 23,500-square-foot facility will house the entirety of the museum’s wet collections, which consist of roughly 4 million specimens stored in 60,000 gallons of ethanol or isopropanol. The project cost approximately $13 million and took just under two years to complete.

 

exterior shot of Special Collections BuildingThe building was designed and constructed by The Haskell Co., an architectural, engineering and construction firm based in Jacksonville, Florida. The two-story floorplan includes mobile, compact high-density shelving systems; research laboratories; and office space, giving ample room for the continued expansion of the wet collections.

 

The new space was designed to provide the highest level of safety and fire suppression. These features include specialized air handling, spark-free lighting fixtures, sprinklers, floor drains and storage tanks, large-scale fume hoods, and temperature and air-quality sensors that meet stringent modern building codes for storing materials preserved in alcohol. Sustainability and environmental stewardship were also a top priority, and in 2023, the building was awarded the highest-level sustainable building Platinum Certification by the Florida Green Building Coalition (FGBC).

 

Organisms are similarly studied by researchers the world over. Each year, the Florida Museum’s wet collections loan approximately 18,000 specimens to researchers and institutions that use them to make new discoveries. The wet collections figure prominently in the museum and the University of Florida’s science and education-based programs and generate millions of dollars each year in grant-funded research. The expanded space will create additional opportunities for students to have hands-on experiences with specimens that are critical to the study of biodiversity, climate change and environmental health. Read more.

Watch the Move in Action!

Collections Move Progress

(as of June 30, 2023)

Ichthyology | 30% complete

Invertebrate Zoology | 100% complete

Herpetology | 100% complete

Research & Collections

Department of Natural History Highlights

 

The Department of Natural History’s faculty, staff, postdocs, and students had yet another exceptional year. This included many high-impact publications, substantial success attracting external funding in support of collections and research and significant contributions to teaching and mentoring. Important new collections were made and curated from all corners of the world. Cutting edge research took place on everything from the origin of butterflies to the oldest DNA sequenced from a domesticated American horse, which received considerable media attention and reached a broad audience. This was also a transformational year, with three new faculty curators hired in mammalogy, ornithology and the first focused on artificial intelligence for natural history and biodiversity. The museum opened and began moving into a new state-of-the-art building housing fluid-preserved specimens. And finally, the very popular “Fantastic Fossils” exhibition in collaboration with the Exhibits and Public Programs teams was completed. This exciting project featured an in-person preparation lab staffed with researchers from Dickinson Hall and interactive “live-from-the-field” broadcasts at fossil localities in Florida and Wyoming.

Researchers from institutions around the world have charted the distribution of known and unknown ant species in the largest global map of insect diversity ever created. Photo by Skyler Ewing, CC0

Big data and biodiversity

Never in our history have humans had access to so much information, but making sense of it often requires sophisticated tools. This year, Florida Museum researchers analyzed a global repository of natural history data, which showed that extreme weather events have significantly extended the active period of moths and butterflies over the last several decades. In a separate study, researchers amassed troves of data to create a treasure map of global ant diversity; the Venn diagram of regions with the highest ant diversity and those with environmental protection laws is alarmingly slim, with only a 15% overlap between the two. Scientists also made the surprising discovery that plants with the special ability to absorb atmospheric nitrogen are most diverse in arid regions and not — as might be expected — where soil nitrogen is in short supply.

The feral Assateague herd is currently jointly managed by the National Park Service on the northern half of the island in Maryland and by the Chincoteague Volunteer Fire Company on the southern half in Virginia. Photo by the National Park Service, CC0

Old specimens, new discoveries

Until this year, armadillos were considered to be the only living mammals that produce bony plates; that changed when researchers conducting routine CT scans for the openVertebrate project unexpectedly discovered that a group of rodents have the same plates hidden beneath the skin of their tails. Museum specimens also helped settle a long-standing mystery of frog anatomy. Unlike humans, frogs have fused bones in their forearms, which are thought to absorb the impact of landing after a jump. But all frogs have fused forearm bones, whether or not they’re jumpers, and an analysis modeled on specimens revealed why. And the oldest DNA sequenced from a domesticated American horse indicated that a popular legend about shipwrecked ponies on the island of Assateague is more fact than fiction.

Florida’s scrub mints evolved when the peninsula regularly flooded and expanded during the Pleistocene ice ages as glaciers advanced and retreated. Photo courtesy of Floyd Griffith, CC-BY

Advances in genetics

The field of genomics has rapidly developed over the last two decades, and it reached a major milestone this year with the completion of the first homosporous fern genomes. The group contains more than 10,000 species and occupies a pivotal juncture in the history of land plant evolution. Douglas and Pamela Soltis helped organize and host the first cross-disciplinary international conference on polyploidy, a genetic phenomenon that has influenced the evolution of organisms across the tree of life in ways we’re only now beginning to understand. And in two separate studies, scientists determined that crab diversity in the world’s largest marine ecosystem has been drastically underestimated, and the origin of rare and endangered scrub mints is intimately tied to the history of sea level change in Florida.

Researchers and volunteers with the Florida Museum of Natural History have discovered the ancient remains of several gomphotheres at a fossil site in North Florida. ©Florida Museum/Kristen Grace

Paleobiology and conservation

With species currently disappearing at 1,000 times the normal rate of extinction, many paleontologists have turned to the fossil record to help inform modern conservation goals. Michal Kowalewski helped assemble the world’s leading conservation paleobiologists this year at an international conference devoted to the subject. Paleontologists and volunteers working at the Montbrook fossil dig site made a once-in-a-lifetime discovery when they unearthed the remains of several gomphotheres, extinct elephant relatives once common in North and South America. Finding multiple individuals preserved together is unusual and offers researchers an unparalleled glimpse into the development of these ancient animals. Scientists also used the fossil record to document a flurry of rodent extinctions in the Caribbean, which began with the arrival of Indigenous people and accelerated during European colonization.

Young children learn by playing, and their access to science-related tools can strongly influence their interests and ability to picture themselves as scientists. ©Florida Museum/Kristen Grace

Community outreach and education research

Museum scientists regularly engage in outreach and education efforts at the University of Florida and in the wider community. A case study from a paleontology field course in Panama shows these efforts benefit not only the people learning about natural history but also the scientists who teach it. Megan Ennes published the results of a yearlong study, which demonstrates that community is often essential to instilling a passion for science and the natural world among children. The same study also revealed children aren’t aware they have access to formative science tools around their house, such as rulers and magnifying glasses, further underscoring the need for engagement between children and their community of family members.

North America’s rarest snake, Tantilla oolitica was recently spotted in the Florida Keys in the equally rare condition of having attempted to swallow a centipede too large for it to consume. Photo courtesy of Drew Martin

Backyard biology in Florida

Florida’s wildlife diversity was on full display this year. A specimen of North America’s rarest snake, Tantilla oolitca, was sent to the Florida Museum for study. The snake died while trying to consume a giant centipede, marking the first time scientists have directly observed its eating habits. Scientists also documented the spread of the non-native goldline snakehead (Channa aurolineata). The fish species was formerly thought to be restricted to southeast Florida, where it was introduced around the turn of the century, but it can tolerate a wide range of environmental conditions and was recently spotted in central Florida. And after concluding an extensive marine survey off the Florida Keys, researchers were pleased to find that Florida’s sea urchins seem to be faring relatively well, despite the poor condition of the surrounding seagrass meadows and coral reefs.

Collections & Research Data

218

Peer-reviewed publications

41

Grants & contracts worth $26.9 million

206

Undergraduates & postdoctoral fellows working in the collections

40+

Million specimens & artifacts

80,261

New accessions to collections

139,887

New specimens & artifacts cataloged

45,253

Specimens & artifacts loaned via 1,482 loans

7,200

News articles about museum research with potential readership of 43.5 billion

Research Locations

McGuire Center for Lepidoptera & Biodiversity

 

Curators, staff and students at the McGuire Center for Lepidoptera and Biodiversity pursued a broad range of projects relating to the conservation, diversity, ecology and evolution of moths, butterflies and other insects.

Scientists have determined where the first butterflies originated and which plants they relied on for food throughout their long, 100 million-year history. ©Florida Museum/Kristen Grace, Phylogeny by Hillis, Zwickl and Gutell.

Butterfly origin and patterns

McGuire Center Director Akito Kawahara led a massive international collaboration of nearly 100 researchers to create a new butterfly tree of life with data from over 2,000 species. This groundbreaking study traced the movements and diet of butterflies over the last 100 million years and revealed the first butterflies likely originated in Central America and western North America, where they fed almost exclusively on bean plants. Researchers also completed a massive tree of life for one of the most abundant and least studied groups of tropical butterflies, the euptychiines. Previously overlooked because of their drab colors, the study shows euptychiine butterflies are incredibly diverse, with more than 100 species that have yet to be scientifically described.

McGuire Center curator Jaret Daniels showcases a Monarch butterfly inside the Florida Museum’s “Butterfly Rainforest” exhibit. ©University of Florida/Brianne Lehan

Brewing beer for butterflies

Since 2016, McGuire Center curator Jaret Daniels has collaborated with First Magnitude Brewing Co. to release a series of butterfly-themed beers as fundraisers for butterfly conservation. This past year, three new beers were added: Frosted Elfin Session Hazy IPA, Calamintha Hibiscus Wit and Reign Imperial Stout. Proceeds from sales of Reign specifically go to preserving and rebuilding imperiled Monarch butterfly habitats to “restore the reign of the Monarch.”

Atala butterflies, Eumaeus atala, have a single red spot on the underside of their hind wings, which partially covers their abdomen when their wings are closed. ©Florida Museum/Zachary Randall

Ancient foundations of butterfly wing diversity

Butterfly wings have a wide variety of colorful patterns, eyespots and other markings. In the brush-footed butterfly family (Nymphalidae), these variations are derived from a basic blueprint or “ground plan,” but it was unclear if this same ground plan was present in other butterfly families. McGuire Center Collections Coordinator Andrei Sourakov and curator Jaret Daniels studied the wing-pattern elements of the Atala hairstreak butterfly and discovered many similarities with the brush-footed butterfly wing ground plan. This suggests that the underlying processes shaping butterfly wing patterns have remained fundamentally unchanged for the entire evolutionary history of butterflies.

The long, trailing tails of Luna moths misdirect bat attacks away from their bodies. Two new studies indicate the tails don’t come with any additional costs or benefits. Moth illustration by Dru Drury, CC0. Bat illustration by Alcide D’Orbigny, CC0

Function of Luna moth tails

Luna moths have long extensions on their hind wings (“tails”) that were thought to have many different evolutionary advantages. As part of her doctoral research at the McGuire Center, graduate student Juliette Rubin studied luna moth behavior and found that their tails are in fact only beneficial for a single purpose: misdirecting bat attacks. Despite being visually stunning, their long, streaming tails do not appear to help luna moths attract mates nor do they make it harder for them to hide from predatory birds during the day.

Researchers have discovered three new species of hawk moths endemic to the Bahamas, among the smallest ever discovered in the family. ©Florida Museum/Kristen Grace

New species of extremely small hawk moths

Hawk moths are some of the largest butterflies on Earth, with wingspans that are often comparable to those of birds. But in the Caribbean, some hawk moth species have downsized, as discovered this year by a team of McGuire Center researchers, including curator Jacqueline Miller, Deborah Matthews and Riley Gott. They describe three new species of miniature hawk moths native to the Bahamas, each about the size of a vitamin pill. It is likely that their small body size makes them better equipped to survive hurricanes and tropical storms that frequent the region.

Mezcal is a type of alcohol made from the fermented sap of agave plants and is sometimes sold with a single insect larva, which Museum scientists identified in a new study. Illustration by Charles Lemair, CC0

Identity of mezcal worms

The agave plants used to make mezcal and tequila are also an important source of food for multiple insect species, and many distilleries intentionally put these insect larvae, or “mezcal worms,” in the bottle. A team of McGuire Center researchers led by Jose Martinez and Akito Kawahara sequenced the DNA of mezcal worms from 18 different distilleries in Mexico and unexpectedly discovered that all the worms found in mezcal bottles are the same species.

Staff & Faculty Teaching

93

Graduate committees chaired

144

Graduate committees served

118

Independent studies supervised

42

Courses taught by Museum faculty

Outreach

Exhibits & Public Programs

 

The year finished strong, with visitation exceeding pre-pandemic numbers, programs returning to a robust schedule and grant funding supporting exciting new initiatives. Nearly a quarter of a million people visited from all 67 Florida counties, all 50 states and 55 countries. They were treated to the always spectacular “Butterfly Rainforest” and other permanent exhibits, plus a roster of changing exhibits and educational programs. “Science Up Close: Fantastic Fossils” deeply engaged visitors with real-time science, and “Spiders Alive!” invaded the museum, thrilling spider lovers and turning arachnophobes into spider friends. Other changing exhibits, such as “Mosquitoes: Friend or Foe,” “Inner Beauty” and “Colorful Dancing Spiders,” provided extra engagement.

 

Educational programs entered a new era, thanks to grant and endowment funds, with more outreach programs than ever and on-site programs for a wide range of audiences. Funds from the Institute for Museum and Library Services expanded the Museum in the Parks program to community youth organizations, with educators and scientists taking kids into parks to explore the wonders of the natural world. The Children’s Trust of Alachua County supported Science Surprises programs at community partner locations. Endowment funds helped expand early childhood initiatives, including Tot Trots and the Head Start “Discovery Time” collaboration. Funds from the Florida Division of Arts and Culture supported numerous public programs, such as the popular Can You Dig It geology extravaganza, the Latin American cultural celebration Viva Museum and Girls Do Science, which highlights women scientists from across the university and region. Truly a great year for the museum!

Attendance & Outreach Data

242,871

Annual visitation

6,617

Public program participants

1,122,495

Visitors to Museum traveling exhibits at other venues

6,679

Youth program participants

12,464

Youth field trip participants

1,567

Community outreach participants

Mexican Red Knee Tarantula, Brachypelma sp. ©Florida Museum/Jeff Gage

Spiders Alive! and Ta-RUN-tula 5K

The “Spiders Alive!” exhibit took an eight-legged walk on the wild side, diving into the world of spiders, scorpions and their relatives, with more than a dozen live species on display. Then, the seventh annual 5K run got the community’s legs moving with a race through the nature trails and roads on UF’s campus.

The museum’s iconic cave will remain as part of the new exhibit and will be refreshed with new technology, graphics and content. Rendering provided by HealyKohler Design

Water Shapes Florida

The permanent exhibit “Northwest Florida: Waterways and Wildlife” closed to prepare the way for “Water Shapes Florida,” a new permanent exhibition exploring Florida’s most important resource, now under construction. “Northwest Florida” was the first permanent exhibit to open in Powell Hall more than 20 years ago in 2000. Some of its most iconic elements will live on and be incorporated into the upcoming exhibit with new refurbishments and technology.

More than 150 backpacks were packed and sent out to Alachua County Library District locations and after-school programs. ©Florida Museum/Kristen Grace

Exploration backpacks

With generous funding from the Institute for Museum and Library Services, the Museum in the Parks program expanded its partnership with the Alachua County Library District to bring this experience to all library card holders. The new backpacks contain tools and objects used by scientists when doing fieldwork, giving community members a new way to experience parks in the area.

Junior volunteers engage with visitors while serving as Discovery Cart attendants. ©Florida Museum/Karina Lowyns

Junior volunteers

Students ages 14 to 17 returned to the museum for a summer of interactions, helping visitors deeply engage with the exhibits and natural history stories to enrich their museum experience while also developing the teens’ leadership skills.

The museum’s spring plant sale featured more than 100 species of plants available for purchase. ©Florida Museum/Kristen Grace

Spring plant sale

This year’s plant sale, organized by the museum’s “Butterfly Rainforest” team, was the largest ever, attracting thousands of visitors from around the state to celebrate and support gardening for pollinators. Staff members sold more than 10,000 plants featuring over 100 species of Florida- and pollinator-friendly plants with proceeds benefiting the exhibit.

The family-favorite “Discovery Zone” exhibit at the Florida Museum is free for all visitors and is open during Museum for Me events. Children have fun playing and interacting with plush educational toys during their visit. ©Florida Museum/Kristen Grace

Museum for Me

This special event offered early opening hours for guests on the autism spectrum and their families and caregivers, providing a sensory-friendly experience in the museum’s exhibits.

Thompson Earth Systems Institute

 

The University of Florida Thompson Earth Systems Institute (TESI) celebrated its five-year anniversary in 2023. The institute continues its mission to advance communication and education about Earth systems science through Scientist in Every Florida School (SEFS) professional development programs, environmental leadership initiatives, education and outreach research, and collaboration with UF faculty members on outreach projects. At the end of the year, TESI founding director Bruce MacFadden stepped down and returned to the faculty, and Megan Ennes was named as the new director. She plans to build upon TESI’s trusted reputation by fostering new collaborations with researchers at UF and across the state.

TESI Outreach Data

852

Scientist in Every Florida School (SEFS) scientist visits

37,000

K-12 students, representing 423 schools, engage with SEFS

3,500

Lifelong learners attended 8 public outreach events

250

Undergraduates gain experience through TESI internships and fellowships

$138K

In private funding acquired for SEFS and outreach

A teacher takes a photo of shark’s teeth to upload into Google’s Teachable Machine. ©Florida Museum/Jeff Gage

Shark AI workshop

The first of three teacher cohorts for the National Science Foundation-funded Scientist in Every Florida School Shark AI professional development program kicked off with a weeklong summer workshop on UF’s main campus. During the workshop, 12 teachers learned how to train computers to identify the teeth of the extinct megalodon. By the end of the week, teachers developed hands-on, standards-based lesson plans to bring to their classrooms in the fall.

University of Florida undergraduate students from diverse majors tour UF’s Field and Fork Farm to learn about sustainable agriculture on campus. ©Florida Museum/Jeff Gage

Environmental Leaders Network

With funding from the Henry David Thoreau Foundation, four former TESI Environmental Leaders Fellows launched the UF TESI Environmental Leaders Network, a centralized platform for students to explore their interests, skills and passions through environmental research, education and civic engagement opportunities on campus and throughout the community. In its first year, the network boasted 230 members, representing 68 majors from aerospace engineering to English.

Matthew Stanley is responsible for running the SEFS program in Marion County Schools. ©Florida Museum/Rebecca Burton

Marion County scientist-in-residence

Matthew Stanley, a former combat medic in the U.S. Army who studied agriculture and horticulture, has been named the Scientist in Every Florida School K-12 education and outreach specialist for Marion County. In his role, Stanley will serve as the county’s “scientist-in-residence,” and he will teach the area’s schoolchildren about environmental issues ranging from water quality to sustainable agriculture.

A green lacewing perches on a yellow flower. Photo by Bruce MacQueen via Canva.com

Digital science outreach

Through online platforms, TESI’s digital outreach team curated and shared information about Florida’s environment and natural resources. During the 2022-23 year, TESI social media channels earned 340,000 impressions and 13,290 likes, comments and shares. Educational videos on the TESI YouTube channel received 71,500 views.

A group of teachers head on a shark tagging cruise with the ANGARI Foundation off the coast of Miami, Florida. Photo courtesy of the ANGARI Foundation

Immersive environmental education fellowship

For the first time, SEFS brought one of its renowned hands-on professional development programs on the road. Thanks to funding from The Batchelor Foundation, scientists from a range of disciplines guided a cohort of 10 Miami-Dade County middle and high school teachers through an immersive, weeklong environmental education fellowship in Miami.

Founding TESI director Bruce MacFadden shares the Institute’s impacts and accomplishments with guests. ©Florida Museum/Jeff Gage

Annual Celebration

TESI hosted its first Annual Celebration and Awards Ceremony to highlight the work of collaborators — teachers, scientists, organizations and community members — who have excelled in Earth systems education, outreach and communication.

Museum-wide Digital Engagement Data

8,827,807

4,122,919

20,300,176

735,949

21,930

5,890

43,828

3,979

13,279

13,020

1,922

216,041

Support

Dedicated photographer commits to a brighter future for students studying Neotropical butterflies

It was the 1990s when Kim Garwood spotted her first starry night cracker (Hamadryas laodamia) on a hawk-watching trip to Veracruz, Mexico. It was close – about 3 feet up on a pale tree trunk – and much easier to photograph than the hawks, which looked like specks up in the sky.

 

Kim Garwood

Kim Garwood in the field in Oaxaca, Mexico. Photo courtesy of Willie Sekula.

A friend suggested that she purchase a butterfly identification guide. She was able to find and identify the insects she had photographed and has been hooked on Neotropical butterflies ever since.

 

While living in Los Angeles, Garwood and a flock of butterfly-loving friends took frequent trips to western Mexico around Puerto Vallarta, and they gradually learned to identify what they saw.

 

By the time digital cameras were developed in the early 2000s, she had moved to the Rio Grande Valley in Texas. She met some locals who were frequently driving into northeast Mexico to photograph the amazing butterflies found there. They spent quite a bit of time wandering back roads in Mexico, photographing whatever they found, and Garwood would help identify the species.

 

Things snowballed as she met more people, collected more images, did more traveling in South and Central America, spent time in other collections, and continued to learn. Garwood made many birding trips to South America in the 1980s and 1990s, so she was familiar with many of the continent’s birding lodges. She assumed that a good habitat for birds would also be good for butterflies, so she started organizing photography trips to those locations, asking friends to join and share expenses. All they had to promise was that they would give her copies of their photos for her collection.

 

Faculty and staff members in the Florida Museum of Natural History’s McGuire Center for Lepidoptera and Biodiversity proved a helpful resource to Garwood, granting her access to its remarkable collection. And Garwood’s photos were of great interest to Neotropical butterfly researchers, including McGuire Center curator Keith Willmott, who helped identify the species in the images.

 

Garwood was the first person to document a new species of glasswing butterfly in western Ecuador, which led to the eventual capture of the first specimens. The species now bears her name: Napeogenes garwoodae.

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When Garwood started considering where she could leave her scientific photos, the McGuire Center was the first place to come to mind.

 

“Kim’s contributions to expanding knowledge and appreciation of Neotropical lepidoptera have been extraordinary,” Willmott said.

 

“From a scientific viewpoint, the hundreds of thousands of images she has compiled over a lifetime are a rich resource of information on lepidoptera distribution and behavior. Her commitment to supporting research on Neotropical butterflies and moths should have a profound and lasting impact on our understanding of these incredibly diverse and charismatic insects, and on the lives of future lepidopterists.”

 

Garwood has also been very impressed with the McGuire Center’s efforts to help students from Neotropical countries obtain graduate degrees, and she wanted to contribute to those efforts. In addition to the photo collection donation and a bequest commitment, Garwood created the Mariposa Endowment, which will support students and researchers studying Neotropical lepidoptera, fieldwork in Latin America, and efforts to curate images of live lepidoptera and make them available online to all.

 

Download Neotropical butterfly guides at: https://www.butterflycatalogs.com

brown tropical butterfly with white wingspots on a green leaf

Prepona praeneste buckleyana
photo by Kim Garwood

butterfly with metallic light blue wings rimed with an orange stripe

Napeogenes garwoodae
photo by Kim Garwood

Orange and gray butterfly on a white flower

Mysoria cosinga
photo by Kim Garwood

Volunteer Hours

20340

Hours donated

340

Total volunteers

Fundraising Data

$6,031,693

Total Gifts FY 22-23

 

$35,212,044

Total Endowment Value

  • Bequests

  • Cash Gifts

  • Gifts in Kind

  • Other Pledges

Bequests $3,848,467 63.80%
Cash Gifts $1,626,739 26.97%
Gifts in Kind $396,486 6.57%
Other Pledges $160,000 2.66%

People

Leadership Changes

Megan Ennes

Megan Ennes

Thompson Earth Systems Institute

Megan Ennes, assistant curator of museum education, has been named the new director of the University of Florida Thompson Earth Systems Institute. Read announcement

Akito Kawahara

Akito Kawahara

McGuire Center for Lepidoptera and Biodiversity

Akito Kawahara, curator of lepidoptera, has been named the new director of the McGuire Center for Lepidoptera and Biodiversity. Read announcement

Faculty & Staff Changes

  • New Hires

    • Nicholas Anders
      Security Guard II
    • Lauren Cohen
      Project Manager I, iDigBio
    • Shyla Davison
      Education/Training Specialist II, iDigBio
    • Jessica Grosso
      Project Manager I, iDigBio
    • Paulina Lopez
      Fiscal Assistant II
    • Rachel Narducci
      Collections Manager II, Vertebrate Paleontology
    • Gary Sansone
      Application Developer Analyst I, OMT
    • Shengchen Shan
      Biological Scientist II, Molecular Systematics
    • Catherine Smith
      NAGPRA Coordinator
    • Matthew Stanley
      Education/Training Specialist I, TESI
    • Andrea Torvinen
      Collections Manager II, Ceramic Technology Laboratory
    • Gabriella Williams
      Laboratory Technician I, Ichthyology

  • Retirements

    • Richard Hulbert
      Collection Manager, Vertebrate Paleontology
    • Donna Ruhl
      Collection Manager, Florida Archaeology

Financials

Revenue

$38.28M

  • UF and State Allocation

  • Gifts

  • Contracts and Grants

  • Earned Income

  • Investment Income

  • Other UF Income

UF/State Allocation $14.96M 39.08%
Gifts $11.05M 28.88%
Contracts and Grants $7.18M 18.75%
Earned Income $2.59M 6.76%
Investment Income $1.43M 3.73%
Other UF Income $1.07M 2.79%

Expenses

$28.20M

  • Salaries and Benefits

  • Other Operating Expenses

  • Overhead and Other Fees

  • Transfers for Future Programming

Salaries & Benefits $17.83M 63.22%
Other Operating Expenses $8.39M 29.77%
Overhead/Other Fees $1.87M 6.62%
Transfers for Future Programming $0.11M 0.38%

Awards & Honors

Florida Museum Biodiversity Award

Micheal Belitz

Named UF Research Foundation Professor

David Blackburn

UF International Center Certificate of Outstanding Achievement

Maria Cortez

UF Excellence Award for Assistant Professors

Megan Ennes

Florida Museum Austin Award

Indah Huegele

2nd place AIBS Faces of Biology Photo Contest

Kristen Grace

Association for Women Geoscientists Winifred Goldring Award

Stephanie Killingsworth

National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program Award

Alisa Luthra

UF International Center Educator of the Year Award

Lucas Majure

University of Illinois School of Integrative Biology Achievement Award & University of Illinois College of Liberal Arts & Sciences Alumni Achievement Award

Larry Page

UF International Center Virtual Exchange Training Award

Mariela Pajuelo Rubina

Florida Museum Austin Award

Jeanette Pirlo

American Association for the Advancement of Science Fellow & SEC Professor of the Year

Pamela Soltis

Estes Memorial Grant from the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology & UFIC Certificate of Outstanding Achievement

Maria Vallejo-Pareja

UF International Center Educator of the Year Award

Keith Willmott

Multiple state, national and international awards

“All Things Beautiful” book

SEMC Publication Winners: Florida Museum 2021-2022 Annual Report (Bronze) & TESI 2021-2022 Annual Report (Gold)

Communications Team

Champions for Change Award by the University of Florida’s Office of Sustainability & Healthy Gators Coalition

McCarty Woods Restoration Team

Publications

  1. Abbott, J.C., C.A. Bota-Sierra, R.P. Guralnick, V. Kalkman, E. Gonzalez-Soriano, R. Novelo-Gutierrez, S. Bybee, J. Ware, and M.W. Belitz. 2022. Diversity of Nearctic dragonflies and damselflies (Odonata). Diversity 14:575. https://doi.org/10.3390/d14070575.
  2. An, J., Y. Liu, R. Luo, and G. Paulay. 2022. Redescription of five species of Athelginae Codreanu & Codreanu, 1956 (Isopoda, Bopyridae), with new localities and new hosts. Crustaceana 95(10-12):1179-1205. https://doi.org/10.1163/15685403-bja10252.
  3. Ausprey, I.J., F.L. Newell, and S.K. Robinson. 2022. Functional response traits and altered ecological niches drive the disassembly of cloud forest bird communities in tropical montane countrysides. Journal of Animal Ecology 91(11):2314-2328.https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2656.13816.
  4. Baker, M.A., L.C. Majure, M.A. Cloud-Hughes, and J.P. Rebman. 2022. xCylindronia, a new nothogenus representing the first reported hybrid between Grusonia and Cylindropuntia (Cactaceae). Haseltonia 29:5-15. https://doi.org/10.2985/026.029.0102.
  5. Barve, T., R.K. Godfrey, C.G. Storer, and A.Y. Kawahara. 2023. Larval and pupal silk variation in the Indian Meal moth (Plodia interpunctella): The impact of overcrowding and temperature. The Journal of the Lepidopterists’ Society 77(2):116-121. https://doi.org/10.18473/lepi.77i2.a5.
  6. Bates, M.F., J. Lobón-Rovira, E.L. Stanley, W.R. Branch, and P. Vaz Pinto. 2023. A new species of green-eyed Cordylus Laurenti, 1768 from the west-central highlands of Angola, and the rediscovery of Cordylus angolensis (Bocage, 1895) (Squamata: Cordylidae). Vertebrate Zoology 73:599-646. https://doi.org/10.3897/vz.73.e95639.
  7. Belitz, M.W., E.A. Larsen, V. Shirey, D. Li, and R.P. Guralnick. 2023. Phenological research based on natural history collections: Practical guidelines and a lepidopteran case study. Functional Ecology 37(2):234-247. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2435.14173.
  8. Blackburn, D.C., J. Penner, N.L. Gonwouo, and M.-O. Rödel. 2023. Langer’s Squeaker frog (Arthroleptis langeri) has the smallest known clutch size in the Arthroleptidae. Herpetology Notes 16:517-521.
  9. Blackburn, D.C., V. Dérozier, A. Djaman, E. Greenbaum, and G.F.M. Jongsma. 2022. First record of Spiny frogs, Acanthixalus (Hyperoliidae, Kassininae), from south of the Congo River. Herpetology Notes 15:641-647.
  10. Bourque, J.R. 2022. A ptychogastrine (Testudines, Geoemydidae) from the early Miocene of Panama and a review of Miocene testudinoids from Central America. Bulletin of the Florida Museum of Natural History 59(2):16-44. https://doi.org/10.58782/flmnh.qvhz1455.
  11. Boyd, D.A., S. Tongnunui, and L.M. Page. 2023. Catfishes of the genus Glyptothorax (Siluriformes: Sisoridae) in the Mae Klong river basin, Thailand, with taxonomic implications for several Southeast Asian species. Ichthyology & Herpetology 111(2):302-328. https://doi.org/10.1643/i2022045.
  12. Boyle, J.H., M. Espeland, S. Sáfián, R. Ducarme, A.J. Gardiner, J. Coleman, A. Heath, S. Fisher, S.C. Collins, D.J. Martins, K. Aduse-Poku, M. Libert, E. Dankowitcz, A.Y. Kawahara, D.J. Lohman, and N.E. Pierce. 2023. Phylogeny of the Poritiinae (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae), butterflies with ant associations and unusual lichenivorous diets. Systematic Entomology 48(3):422-433. https://doi.org/10.1111/syen.12585.
  13. Breslin, P., M. Wojciechowski, and L.C. Majure. 2022. Remarkably rapid, recent diversification of Cochemiea and Mammillaria in the Baja California, Mexico, region. American Journal of Botany 109(9)1472-1487. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajb2.16048.
  14. Callaghan, C.T., T. Mesaglio, J.S. Ascher, T.M. Brooks, A.A. Cabras, M. Chandler, W.K. Cornwell, I.C. Ríos-Málaver, E. Dankowicz, N. Urfi Dhiya’ulhaq, R.A. Fuller, C. Galindo-Leal, F. Grattarola, S. Hewitt, L. Higgins, C. Hitchcock, K.-L. James Hung, T. Iwane, P. Kahumbu, R. Kendrick, S.R. Kieschnick, G. Kunz, C.C. Lee, C.-T. Lin, S. Loarie, M.N. Medina, M.A. McGrouther, L. Miles, S. Modi, K. Nowak, R. Oktaviani, B.M. Waswala Olewe, J. Pagé, S. Petrovan, C. Saari, C.E. Seltzer, A.P. Seregin, J.J. Sullivan, A.P. Sumanapala, A. Takoukam, J. Widness, K.R. Willmott, W. Wüster, and A.N. Young. 2022. The benefits of contributing to the citizen science platform iNaturalist as an identifier. PLOS Biology 20(11):e3001843. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3001843.
  15. Campbell, C.J., V. Barve, M.W. Belitz, J. Doby, E. White, C. Seltzer, G. Di Cecco, A. Hurlbert and R.P. Guralnick. 2023. Identifying the identifiers: How iNaturalist facilitates collaborative, research-relevant data generation and why it matters for biodiversity science. Bioscience 73(7):533-541. https://doi.org/10.1093/biosci/biad051.
  16. Campbell, L.P., M.F. Sallam, A.M. Bauer, Y. Tavares, and R.P. Guralnick. 2023. Climate, landscape, and life history jointly predict multidecadal community mosquito phenology. Scientific Reports 13:3866. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-30751-4.
  17. Campbell, L.P., R.P. Guralnick, B. Giordano, M. Sallam, A. Bauer, Y. Tavares, J.M. Allen, C. Efstathion, S. Bartlett, R. Wishard, R.-D. Xue, B. Allen, M. Tressler, W. Qualls, and N.D. Burkett-Cadena. 2022. Spatiotemporal modeling of zoonotic arbovirus transmission in northeastern Florida using sentinel chicken surveillance and Earth observation data. Remote Sensing 14(14):3388. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs14143388.
  18. Cantino, P., K. de Queiroz, and N. Cellinese. 2023. A brief guide to establishing phylogenetically defined names under the international code of phylogenetic nomenclature (PhyloCode). Bulletin of Phylogenetic Nomenclature 1(2):31-38. 10.11646/bpn.1.2.1. https://www.biotaxa.org/bpn/article/view/bpn.1.2.1.
  19. Chan, W.-P., R. Rabideau Childers, S. Ashe, C.-C. Tsai, C. Elson, K.J. Keleher, R.L.H. Sipe, C.A. Maier, A. Sourakov, L.F. Gall, G.D. Bernard, E.R. Soucy, N. Yu, and N.E. Pierce. 2022. A high-throughput multispectral imaging system for museum specimens. Communications Biology 5(1):1318. https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-022-04282-z.
  20. Cobb, C.R. and G.J. Waters. 2022. Lithic technological traditions at three Franciscan mission communities. Florida Anthropologist 75(2):105-118.
  21. Cobb, C.R., B.R. Lieb, and Lokosh (J.D. Hinson). 2023. The changing shape of Chickasaw and European battlefield narratives. pp. 22-44. In: M.A. Tveskov and A.A. Bissonnette, eds. Conflict Archaeology, Historical Memory, and the Experience of War: Beyond the Battlefield. University Press of Florida, Gainesville.
  22. Correa-Narvaez, J., S.E. Allen, I.B. Huegele, and S.R. Manchester. 2023. Fossil leaves and fruits of Tetramelaceae (Curcurbitales) from the Eocene of the Rocky Mountain region, USA, and their biogeographic significance. International Journal of Plant Sciences 184(3):177-200. https://doi.org/10.1086/724018.
  23. Crawford, K., A. Huster, M. Peeples, N. Gauthier, M. Smith, J. Lobo, A. York, and D. Lawrence. 2023. A systematic approach for studying the persistence of settlements in the past. Antiquity 97(391):213-230. https://doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2022.175.
  24. Currea, J.P., Y. Sondhi, A.Y. Kawahara, and J. Theobald. 2023. Measuring compound eye optics with microscope and microCT images. Communications Biology 6(1):246. https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-023-04575-x.
  25. Daniels, J.C. 2023. Butterflies of the Midwest Field Guide. Adventure Publications. Cambridge, MN. 364 pp.
  26. Daniels, J.C. 2023. Garden Bugs & Insects of California: Identify Pollinators, Pests, and Other Garden Visitors (Adventure Quick Guides). Adventure Publications. Cambridge, MN. 36 pp.
  27. Daniels, J.C., C.G. Storer, G.M. Hill, A. Markee, C. Couch, and K.A. Rossetti. 2022. Deploying community scientists to conduct nondestructive genetic sampling of rare butterfly populations. Journal of Visualized Experiments 188:e63416. https://doi.org/10.3791/63416.
  28. Daza, J.D., A.A. Rock, and E.L. Stanley. 2023. The palatal gland of dibamid lizards. The Anatomical Record 1-5. https://doi.org/10.1002/ar.25288.
  29. de Queiroz, K., P. Cantino, and N. Cellinese. 2023. Proposed new article on the date and authorship of names originally published with incomplete protologues. Bulletin of Phylogenetic Nomenclature 1(2):39-41. 10.11646/bpn.1.2.2. URL:https://www.biotaxa.org/bpn/article/view/bpn.1.2.2.
  30. Deagan, K. 2023. En Bas Saline: A Taíno Town Before and After Columbus. University Press of Florida, Gainesville. ISBN 13:9781683403555.
  31. Deanna, R., C. Martínez, S.R. Manchester, P. Wilf, A. Campos, S. Knapp, F.E. Chiarini, G.E. Barboza, G. Bernardello, H. Sauquet, E. Dean, A. Orejuela, and S.D. Smith. 2023. Fossil berries reveal global radiation of the nightshade family by the early Cenozoic. New Phytologist 238(6):2685-2697. https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.18904.
  32. Del Rio, C., A. Tosal, E. Kara, S.R. Manchester, F. Herrera, M.E. Collinson, and D. De Franceschi. 2023. Fruits of Anacardiaceae from the Paleogene of the Paris Basin, France. International Journal of Plant Sciences 184(3):164-176. https://doi.org/10.1086/723841.
  33. Delsol, N., B.J. Stucky, J.A. Oswald, C.R. Cobb, K.F. Emery, and R.P. Guralnick. 2023. Ancient DNA confirms diverse origins of early post-Columbian cattle in the Americas. Scientific Reports 13:12444. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-39518-3.
  34. Devloo‐Delva, F., C.P. Burridge, P.M. Kyne, J.M. Brunnschweiler, D.D. Chapman, P. Charvet, X. Chen, G. Cliff, R. Daly, J.M. Drymon, M. Espinoza, D. Fernando, L. Garcia Barcia, K. Glaus, B.I. González-Garza, M.I. Grant, R.M. Gunasekera, S. Hernandez, S. Hyodo, R.W. Jabado, S. Jaquemet, G. Johnson, J.T. Ketchum, H. Magalon, J.R. Marthick, F.H. Mollen, S. Mona, G.J.P. Naylor, J.E.G. Nevill, N.M. Phillips, R.D. Pillans, B.D. Postaire, A.F. Smoothey, K. Tachihara, B.J. Tillet, J.A. Valerio-Vargas, and P. Feutry. 2023. From rivers to ocean basins: The role of ocean barriers and philopatry in the genetic structuring of a cosmopolitan coastal predator. Ecology and Evolution 13(2):e9837. https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.9837.
  35. Dietz, L., J. Eberle, C. Mayer, S. Kukowka, C. Bohacz, H. Baur, M. Espeland, B.A. Huber, C. Hutter, X. Mengual, R.S. Peters, M. Vences, T. Wesener, K.R. Willmott, B. Misof, O. Niehuis, and D. Ahrens. 2022. Standardized nuclear markers improve and homogenize species delimitation in Metazoa. Methods in Ecology and Evolution 14(2):543-555. https://doi.org/10.1111/2041-210X.14041.
  36. Doré, M., K.R. Willmott, S. Lavergne, N. Chazot, A.V.L. Freitas, C. Fontaine, and M. Elias. 2023. Mutualistic interactions shape global spatial congruence and climatic niche evolution in Neotropical mimetic butterflies. Ecology Letters 26(6):843-857. https://doi.org/10.1111/ele.14198.
  37. Du, Z.-Y., Q.‐Y. Xiang, J. Cheng, W. Zhou, Q.‐F. Wang, D.E. Soltis, and P.S. Soltis. 2023. An updated phylogeny, biogeography, and PhyloCode‐based classification of Cornaceae based on three sets of genomic data. American Journal of Botany 110(2):e16116. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajb2.16116.
  38. Ellwood, E.R., G.B. Pauly, J. Ahn, K. Golembiewski, L.M. Higgins, M.A. Ordeñana, and M. von Konrat. 2023. Citizen science needs a name change. Trends in Ecology & Evolution 38(6):485-489. 10.1016/j.tree.2023.03.003.
  39. Encarnación, Y., À. Guerrero, E. Séptimo, and L.C. Majure. 2022. Distribución y estado de conservación de Melocactus praerupticola Areces: Un cactus endémico del bosque xeromorfo de montaña, Cordillera Central, República Dominicana. Moscosoa 21:56-88. URL:https://bvearmb.do/handle/123456789/2589.
  40. Enge, K.M., J.A. Gray, C.M. Sheehy III, T. Ferraro, D.M. Martin, and J.D. Mays. 2022. What killed the rarest snake in North America? Ecology 104(1):e3857. https://doi.org/10.1002/ecy.3857.
  41. Ennes, M., M.G. Jones, G. Childers, E. Cayton, and K. Chesnutt. 2022. Children and parents’ perceptions of access to science tools at home and their role in science self-efficacy. Research In Science Education 53:671-687. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11165-022-10077-3.
  42. Ennes, M., M.G. Jones, H. Cian, R. Dou, B. Abramowitz, K. Bordewieck, and K. Ideus. 2023. Family influence and STEM career aspirations. pp. 370-381. In: R. Tierney, F. Rizvi and K. Ercikan, eds. International Encyclopedia of Education, 4th Edition. Elsevier. https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-818630-5.13022-2.
  43. Ennes, M., M.G. Jones, K. Chesnutt, E. Cayton, and G.M. Childers. 2023. Family science experiences’ influence on youths’ achievement value, perceived family value, and future value of science. Research in Science Education 53:977-992. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11165-023-10116-7.
  44. Espeland, M., S. Nakahara, T. Zacca, E.P. Barbosa, B. Huertas, M.A. Marín, G. Lamas, M. Benmesbah, C. Brévignon, M.M. Casagrande, C. Fåhraeus, N. Grishin, A.Y. Kawahara, O.H.H. Mielke, J.Y. Miller, I. Nakamura, V. Navas, B. Patrusky, T.W. Pyrcz, L. Richards, D. Tan, S. Tyler, À. Viloria, A.D. Warren, L. Xiao, A.V.L. Freitas, and K.R. Willmott. 2023. Combining target enrichment and Sanger sequencing data to clarify the systematics of the diverse Neotropical butterfly subtribe Euptychiina (Nymphalidae, Satyrinae). Systematic Entomology 48(4):498-570. https://doi.org/10.1111/syen.12590.
  45. Feng, C., K. Wang, W. Xu, L. Yang, K. Wanghe, N. Sun, B. Wu, F. Wu, L. Yang, Q. Qiu, X. Gan, Y. Chen, and S. He. 2022. Monsoon boosted radiation of the endemic East Asian carps. Science China Life Sciences 66:563-578. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11427-022-2141-1.
  46. Flemming, A. 2023. Student‐focused, career‐driven exploration in natural history museums through experiential education and mentorship: A model to intentionally increase the racial and ethnic diversity of students. Natural Sciences Education 52(1):e20097. https://doi.org/10.1002/nse2.20097.
  47. Folk, R.A., M.L. Gaynor, N.J. Engle-Wrye, B.C. O’Meara, P.S. Soltis, D.E. Soltis, R.P. Guralnick, S.A. Smith, C.J. Grady, and Y. Okuyama. 2023. Identifying climatic drivers of hybridization with a new ancestral niche reconstruction method. Systematic Biology 72(4):856-873. https://doi.org/10.1093/sysbio/syad018.
  48. Franck, A.R. and C. Werner. 2023. Lythrum nieuwlandii (Lythraceae), a new name for L. cordifolium, nom. illeg., a rare species endemic to Florida, U.S.A. Journal of the Botanical Research Institute of Texas 17:31-38. https://doi.org/10.17348/jbrit.v17.i1.1289.
  49. Frandsen, P.B., S. Hotaling, A. Powell, J. Heckenhauer, A.Y. Kawahara, R.H. Baker, C.Y. Hayashi, B. Ríos-Touma, R. Holzenthal, S.U. Pauls, and R.J. Stewart. 2023. Allelic resolution of insect and spider silk genes reveals hidden genetic diversity. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA 120(18):e2221528120. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2221528120.
  50. Friend, D.S., B.M. Anderson, E. Altier, S. Sang, E. Petsios, R.W. Portell, and W.D. Allmon. 2023. Systematics and phylogeny of Plio-Pleistocene species of Turritellidae (Gastropoda) from Florida and the Atlantic coastal plain. Bulletins of American Paleontology 402:1-74. 10.32857/bap.2023.402.01. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/370101031_Systematics_and_Phylogeny_of_Plio-Pleistocene_Species_of_Turritellidae_Gastropoda_from_Florida_and_the_Atlantic_Coastal_Plain.
  51. Gabbanelli, V., G.J.P. Naylor, S. Weigmann, L. Yang, D.M. Vazquez, P. Last, J.M.D. de Astarloa, and E. Mabragaña. 2022. Morphological and molecular evidence reveals Zearaja brevicaudata (Marini, 1933) to be a senior synonym of Dipturus lamillai Concha, Caira, Ebert & Pompert 2019. Zoological Studies 61:e76. https://doi.org/10.6620%2FZS.2022.61-76.
  52. Gerlach, J., O. Griffiths, and J. Slapcinsky. 2023. Non-marine mollusks of the northern Narinda karst, north-western Madagascar. Bulletin of the Florida Museum of Natural History 60(1):1-55. https://doi.org/10.58782/flmnh.kykr5005.
  53. Ghose, S.L., T.A. Yap, A.Q. Byrne, H. Sulaeman, E.B. Rosenblum, A. Chan-Alvarado, S. Chaukulkar, E. Greenbaum, M.S. Koo, M.T. Kouete, K. Lutz, D. McAloose, A. Moyer, E. Parra, D.M. Portik, H. Rockney, A.G. Zink, D.C. Blackburn, and V.T. Vredenburg. 2023. Continent-wide recent emergence of a global pathogen in African amphibians. Frontiers in Conservation Science 4:1069490. https://doi.org/10.3389/fcosc.2023.1069490.
  54. Godfrey, R.K., S.E. Britton, S. Mishra, J.K. Goldberg, and A.Y. Kawahara. 2023. A high-quality, long-read genome assembly of the Whitelined sphinx moth (Lepidoptera: Sphingidae: Hyles lineata) shows highly conserved melanin synthesis pathway genes. G3: Genes, Genomes, Genetics 13(6):jkad090. https://doi.org/10.1093/g3journal/jkad090/7147210.
  55. Gonzalez, A., P. Vihervaara, P. Balvanera, A.E. Bates, E. Bayraktarov, P.J. Bellingham, A. Bruder, J. Campbell, M.D. Catchen, J. Cavender-Bares, J. Chase, N. Coops, M.J. Costello, M. Dornelas, G. Dubois, E.J. Duffy, H. Eggermont, N. Fernandez, S. Ferrier, G.N. Geller, M. Gill, D. Gravel, C.A. Guerra, R.P. Guralnick, M. Harfoot, T. Hirsch, S. Hoban, A.C. Hughes, M.E. Hunter, F. Isbell, W. Jetz, N. Juergens, W.D. Kissling, C.B. Krug, Y. Le Bras, B. Leung, M.C. Londoño-Murcia, J.-M. Lord, M. Loreau, A. Luers, K. Ma, A.J. MacDonald, M. McGeoch, K.L. Millette, Z. Molnar, A.S. Mori, F.E. Muller-Karger, H. Muraoka, L. Navarro, T. Newbold, A. Niamir, D. Obura, M. O’Connor, M. Paganini, H. Pereira, T. Poisot, L.J. Pollock, A. Purvis, A. Radulovici, D. Rocchini, M. Schaepman, G. Schaepman-Strub, D.S. Schmeller, U. Schmiedel, F.D. Schneider, M. Man Shakya, A. Skidmore, A.L. Skowno, Y. Takeuchi, M.-N. Tuanmu, E. Turak, W. Turner, M.C. Urban, N. Urbina-Cardona, R. Valbuena, B. van Havre, and E. Wright. 2023. A global biodiversity observing system to unite monitoring and guide action. Nature Ecology and Evolution. Online Early. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-023-02171-0.
  56. Goodman, A., E. Tolman, R. Uche-Dike, J. Abbott, J.W. Breinholt, S. Bybee, P.B. Frandsen, J.S. Gosnell, R.P. Guralnick, V.J. Kalkman, M. Kohli, J.F. Lontchi, P. Lupiyaningdyah, L. Newton, and J.L. Ware. 2023. Assessment of targeted enrichment locus capture across time and museums using odonate specimens. Insect Systematics and Diversity 7(3). https://doi.org/10.1093/isd/ixad011.
  57. Goulding, T.C., N.W. Yeung, J. Slapcinsky, E.E. Strong, J.R. Kim, F.J. Brook, and K.A. Hayes. 2023. Tiny snails with large distributions: Systematics and delimitation of the Pacific land snails Pacificella and Lamellidea (Stylommatophora: Achatinellidae: Pacificellinae). Bulletin of the Society of Systematic Biologists 2(2):1-42. https://doi.org/10.18061/bssb.v2i2.8873.
  58. Gray, J.A., P.M. Gignac, and E.L. Stanley. 2023. The first full body diffusible iodine-based contrast-enhanced computed tomography dataset and teaching materials for a member of the Testudines. The Anatomical Record 1-14. https://doi.org/10.1002/ar.25282.
  59. Griesbaum, F., G.F.M. Jongsma, J. Penner, N.G. Kouamé, J. Doumbia, N.L. Gonwouo, A. Hillers, J. Glos, D.C. Blackburn, and M.-O. Rödel. 2023. The smallest of its kind: Description of a new cryptic Amnirana species (Amphibia, Anura, Ranidae) from West African rainforests. Zootaxa 5254(3):301-339. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5254.3.1.
  60. Grun, T.B. and M. Kowalewski. 2022. Spatial distribution, diversity, and taphonomy of clypeasteroid and spatangoid echinoids of the central Florida Keys. PeerJ 10:e14245. https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.14245.
  61. Guralnick, R.P., L.P. Campbell, and M.W. Belitz. 2023. Weather anomalies more important than climate means in driving insect phenology. Communications Biology. 6:490. https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-023-04873-4.
  62. Hall, J.P.W. and K.R. Willmott. 2023. A review of the Argyrogrammana fauna of the Transandean region (Lepidoptera: Riodinidae: Symmachiini). Tropical Lepidoptera Research 33(Supplement 1):28-48. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7799056.
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