Dr. Jonathan I. Bloch
Curator of Vertebrate Paleontology
Florida Museum of Natural History
Dickinson Hall, Rm. 222
1659 Museum Road
Gainesville, Florida 32611-7800
352-273-1938
jbloch@flmnh.ufl.edu
Ph.D. University of Michigan, 2001
Concurrent Appointments
Professor of Geological Sciences, Anthropology, and Zoology.
Staff
Richard Hulbert – Vertebrate Paleontology Collection Manager
Jason Bourque – Fossil Preparator
Aaron Woodruff – Research Associate
Current External Funding
2021-2024 Collaborative Research: Integrative ecological perspectives on extinction processes – a multi-proxy case study of Hispaniolan subfossil and extant rodents, NSF-EAR-2047817, CoPI. $276, 219 ($93,828 to UF).
2018-2022 CSBR: Natural History: Big Data From Small Fossils: Curation and Digitization of Major Microvertebrate Paleontology Collections at the Florida Museum of Natural History, NSF-DBI-1756306, PI. $499,767
2018-2022 RAPID: High-Fidelity 3-D Digitization of Paleocene Vertebrate Fossils from Colombia: A Unique Opportunity for Science and Education, NSF-EAR-1839102, PI. $74,170
2017-2022 Digitization TCN: Collaborative Research: oVert: Open Exploration of Vertebrate Diversity in 3D, NSF-DBI-1701714, CoPI. $808,235
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- Plant fossils give first real picture of earliest Neotropical rainforests
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