Department Chair
Jonathan Bloch
Vertebrate Paleontology
Department Chair and Curator
Affiliate Appointments: Biology, Geological Sciences, and Anthropology
Contact: 352-273-1938 | jbloch@flmnh.ufl.edu
Office: Dickinson Hall Room 222
Interests: Eocene mammals, mammalian responses to climate change, phylogenetics, functional morphology
Research Gate | Google Scholar | ORCID
Natural History Department Assistant
Brittany Snipes
Department of Natural History
352-273-1941 | bsnipes@flmnh.ufl.edu
Office: Dickinson Hall 238
Full Time Faculty
David Blackburn
Herpetology
Curator
Affiliate Appointments: Biology
Contact: 352-273-1943 | dblackburn@flmnh.ufl.edu
Office: Dickinson Hall Room 262
Interests: Diversity, evolution, and conservation of amphibians, especially African frogs
Lab Website | Research Gate | Google Scholar | ORCID | Twitter
Nico Cellinese
Herbarium and Informatics
Curator
Affiliate Appointments: Biology
Contact: 352-273-1979 | ncellinese@flmnh.ufl.edu
Office: Dickinson Hall Room 354
Interests: Plant systematics, evolution, biogeography, informatics
Lab Website | Twitter
Andre Chanderbali
Molecular Systematics and Evolutionary Genetics
Assistant Scientist
Contact: 352-273-1976 | achander@ufl.edu
Office: Bartram Hall
Interests: Lauraceae systematics; floral evolutionary genetics
Lab Website | Research Gate
Charles Cobb
Historical Archaeology
James E. Lockwood Jr., Professor of Historical Archaeology
Curator
Affiliate Appointments: Anthropology
Contact: 352-273-1916 | ccobb@flmnh.ufl.edu
Office: Dickinson Hall Room 102
Interests: Archaeology, cultural history, history of art, history of religion
Research Gate
Jaret Daniels
McGuire Center for Lepidoptera and Biodiversity
Curator
Affiliate Appointments: Entomology and Nematology
Contact: 352-273-2022 | jdaniels@flmnh.ufl.edu
Office: McGuire Hall
Interests: Imperiled butterfly recovery, native insect pollinator conservation
Lab Website | Research Gate
Kitty Emery
Environmental Archaeology
Curator
Affiliate Appointments: Anthropology, Latin American Studies, Tropical Conservation and Development, School of Natural Resources and Environment
Contact: 352-273-1919 | kemery@flmnh.ufl.edu
Office: Dickinson Hall Room 114
Interests: Mesoamerican archaeology, zooarchaeology, environmental archaeology
Research Gate | ORCID | Academia.edu
Megan Ennes
Museum Education
Assistant Curator
Affiliate Appointments: School of Forest, Fisheries, and Geomatics Sciences, Museum Studies, School of Teaching and Learning, and the Anita Zucker Center for Excellence in Early Childhood Studies
Contact: 352-273-2006 | mennes@floridamuseum.ufl.edu
Office: McGuire 201
Interests: Museum Education, STEM Career Interests, Diversity, Distance Learning, Informal Science Educators
Lab Website | Google Scholar | ORCID | Twitter
Nick Gauthier
Artificial Intelligence for Cultural and Biological Diversity
Assistant Curator
Affiliate Appointments: Anthropology, Geography
Contact: nicolas.gauthier@ufl.edu
Office: 352-273-1946| Dickinson Hall Room 376
Interests: Human Ecology, Paleoclimate, Land Use, Computational Modeling, Complex Systems
Lab Website | Google Scholar
Rob Guralnick
Biodiversity Informatics
Curator
Affiliate Appointments: Biology
Contact: 352-273-1980 | rguralnick@flmnh.ufl.edu
Office: Dickinson Hall Room 358
Interests: Spatiotemporal changes in genetic and species diversity, occupancy modeling, spatial ecological modeling, landscape genetics, molecular phylogenetics
Google Scholar
Douglas Jones
Invertebrate Paleontology
Director of the Museum
Curator
Affiliate Appointments: Biology
Contact: 352-273-1901 | dsjones@flmnh.ufl.edu
Office: Dickinson Hall Room 291
Interests: Molluscan ecology, paleoecology, stable isotopes, paleoclimate
Google Scholar
Akito Kawahara
McGuire Center for Lepidoptera and Biodiversity
Curator
Affiliate Appointments: Biology, Entomology and Nematology, UF Genetics Institute, and the School of Natural Resources and the Environment
Contact: 352-273-2018 | kawahara@flmnh.ufl.edu
Office: McGuire Hall Room 218
Interests: Insect evolution and diversity, phylogenomics, host-use evolution, biogeography
Lab Website | Research Gate | Google Scholar | ORCID | Twitter
William F. Keegan
Caribbean Archaeology
Curator
Affiliate Appointments: Anthropology
Contact: 352-273-1921 | keegan@flmnh.ufl.edu
Office: Dickinson Hall Room 134
Interests: economic and ecological anthropology, horticultural societies and farming systems, island archaeology, West Indian archaeology
Research Gate
Michal Kowalewski
Invertebrate Paleontology
Jon L. and Beverly A. Thompson Chair of Invertebrate Paleontology
Curator
Affiliate Appointments: Biology, Geology, and Interdisciplinary Ecology
Contact: 352-273-1944 | kowalewski@ufl.edu
Office: Dickinson Hall Room 254
Interests: invertebrate paleontology, paleoecology, taphonomy
Google Scholar | ORCID | Researcher ID
Michelle LeFebvre
South Florida Archaeology and Ethnography
Assistant Curator
Affiliate Appointments: Anthropology
Contact: 352-273-1917 | mlefebvre@floridamuseum.ufl.edu
Office: Dickinson Hall Room 106
Interests: Historical Ecology, Island and Coastal Archaeology, Environmental Anthropology, Biodiversity
Bruce MacFadden
Vertebrate Paleontology
Curator
Director, Thompson Earth Systems Institute
Affiliate Appointments: Biology, Geological Sciences, and Latin American Studies
Contact: 352-273-1937 | bmacfadd@flmnh.ufl.edu
Office: Dickinson Hall Room 218
Interests: Neogene mammals, stable isotopes, paleoecology, diagenesis of fossils, science education
Google Scholar
Lucas C. Majure
University of Florida Herbarium (FLAS)
Assistant Curator
Affiliate Appointments: Latin American Studies, Tropical Conservation and Development
Contact: 352-273-2102 | lmajure@floridamuseum.ufl.edu
Office: Dickinson Hall Room 378
Interests: Plant Systematics, reticulate evolution, morphological evolution, biogeography, Flora of the Neotropics
Research Gate | Majure Lab Website
Steven Manchester
Paleobotany
Curator
Affiliate Appointments: Biology
Contact: 352-273-1935 | steven@flmnh.ufl.edu
Office: Dickinson Hall Room 214
Interests: phylogenetic and phytogeographic history of angiosperms, Paleocene and Eocene floras
Research Gate | Google Scholar
Jacqueline Miller
McGuire Center for Lepidoptera and Biodiversity
Curator
Affiliate Appointments: Biology, Entomology and Nematology
Contact: 352-273-2016 | jmiller@flmnh.ufl.edu
Office: McGuire Hall
Interests: Lepidoptera biology and systematics
Gavin Naylor
Florida Program for Shark Research
Program Director, Curator
Contact: 352-273-1954 | gnaylor@flmnh.ufl.edu
Office: Dickinson Hall
Interests: Molecular phylogenetics, biogeography, & comparative anatomy of sharks and rays
Google Scholar | sharksrays.org
Gil Nelson
iDigBio
Program Director
Contact: 850-766-2649 | gnelson@flmnh.ufl.edu
Office: 105 Building
Interests: Botany, digital photography, biodiversity informatics
Research Gate
Larry Page
Ichthyology
Curator
Affiliate Appointments: Biology
Contact: 352-273-1952 | lpage@flmnh.ufl.edu
Office: Dickinson Hall Room 282
Interests: Systematics, evolution, and ecology of freshwater fishes, protection of aquatic natural areas
Research Gate | Google Scholar
Mariela Pajuelo
Thompson Earth Systems Institute
Assistant Scientist
Contact: 352-214-3060 | mpajuelo@ufl.edu
Office: Dickinson Hall Room 216
Interests: Sea turtles, foraging ecology, fisheries bycatch, stable isotopes, science education
Gustav Paulay
Invertebrate Zoology
Curator
Affiliate Appointments: Biology
Contact: 352-273-1948 | paulay@flmnh.ufl.edu
Office: Dickinson Hall Room 278
Interests: invertebrate zoology, evolution, diversity, biogeography
Lab Website | Research Gate
David Reed
Mammalogy
Associate Provost
Affiliate Appointments: Biology, Wildlife Ecology & Conservation, Entomology, UF Genetics Institute, and the School of Natural Resources and the Environment
Contact: 352-273-1971 | dreed@flmnh.ufl.edu
Office: Dickinson Hall Room 346
Interests: phylogenetics, coevolution, host/parasite evolution, population genetics
Lab Website | Google Scholar | Research Gate
Scott Robinson
Ornithology
Katharine Ordway Professor of Ecosystem Conservation
Curator
Affiliate Appointments: Biology
Contact: 352-273-1965 | srobinson@flmnh.ufl.edu
Office: Dickinson Hall Room 305
Interests: Avian ecology, conservation biology, habitat fragmentation, avian brood parasitism
Lab Website | Google Scholar
Douglas Soltis
Molecular Systemics and Evolutionary Genetics
Distinguished Professor of Biology
Contact: 352-273-1963 | dsoltis@flmnh.ufl.edu
Office: Dickinson Hall
Interests: Plant biology, plant phylogeny, genome doubling, floral evolution, angiosperm diversification, phylogeography
Lab Website | Research Gate | Google Scholar
Pamela Soltis
Molecular Systemics and Evolutionary Genetics; Genetic Resources Repository
Director, UF Biodiversity Institute
Distinguished Professor and Curator
Affiliate Appointments: Biology, Interdisciplinary Ecology; Director of UF Biodiversity Institute
Contact: 352-273-1964 | psoltis@flmnh.ufl.edu
Office: Dickinson Hall Room 301F
Interests: Plant molecular systemics, floral evolution, polyploid evolution, phylogeography, conservation genetics
Lab Website | Research Gate
Edward Stanley
Digital Imaging Lab
Associate Scientist
Contact: 484-995-2881 | elstanley@flmnh.ufl.edu
Office: Dickinson Hall Room 258
Interests: Systematics and evolution of African snakes, lizards, and amphibians
Lab Website | LinkedIn | Research Gate | Google Scholar
Neill Wallis
Florida Archaeology
Associate Curator
Affiliate Appointments: Anthropology
Contact: 352-273-1920 | nwallis@flmnh.ufl.edu
Office: Dickinson Hall Room 130
Interests: Southeastern US archaeology, pottery, provenance studies, pre-Columbian networks and communities
Google Scholar
Keith Richard Willmott
McGuire Center for Lepidoptera and Biodiversity
Curator
Affiliate Appointments: Entomology, Biology
Contact: 352-273-2012 | kwillmott@flmnh.ufl.edu
Office: McGuire Hall
Interests: Neotropical butterfly systematics, diversity, evolution, biodiversity conservation
Faculty Emeritus
Kathy Deagan
Archaeology
Curator Emeritus
352-273-1916 | kd@flmnh.ufl.edu
Richard Franz
Herpetology
Emeritus Associate Scientist
352-273-1956 | lrfranz08@gmail.com
Wayne King
Herpetology
Curator Emeritus
352-392-1721 | kaiman@flmnh.ufl.edu
William Harrison Marquardt
South Florida Archaeology and Ethnography
Curator emeritus
bilmarq@flmnh.ufl.edu
Jerald Milanich
Florida Archaeology
Curator Emeritus
jtm@ufl.edu
Susan Milbrath
Latin American Art and Archaeology
Curator Emeritus
352-273-1918 | milbrath@flmnh.ufl.edu
Max Nickerson
Herpetology
Curator Emeritus
352-273-1946 | maxn@flmnh.ufl.edu
David Steadman
Ornithology
Curator Emeritus
dws@flmnh.ufl.edu
Norris Williams
Herbarium
Curator Emeritus
352-273-1982 | orchid@flmnh.ufl.edu
Liz Wing
Environmental Archaeology
Curator Emeritus
352-273-2101 | eswing@gator.net
Charles Woods
Mammalogy
Curator Emeritus
hutia@gaw.com