Amazonian Fieldwork in Iquitos, Peru
Gainesville. Rental car smell. Deserted Miami International Airport at midnight. Uncomfortable sleep with an anonymous action film. Lima airport buzzing … Continue
Revision of Guilandina (Fabaceae), Sapindus (Sapindaceae), and Desmodium incanum (Fabaceae)
After teaching my class at UF Wednesday morning, I was whisked away via the GNV airport to Atlanta, finally arriving … Continue
Human-Animal Relations in a Changing Landscape: preliminary site visitations
In Summer 2024 graduate student Autumn Rose travelled to Central America to perform some preliminary field research for her PhD … Continue
Tracing origins of a flora and drivers of speciation in a center of overlooked complexity in a North American biodiversity hotspot
Using the Florida Museum summer travel grant, I was able to attend the International Botanical Congress in Madrid, Spain, which … Continue
Teachers are VIPS at the Florida Museum of Natural History
“I felt like a VIP, and in my profession, I don’t always get to feel like a VIP,” explained an … Continue
Workshop on Molecular Evolution
I am very pleased to be one of the recipients of the museum’s travel award for the Summer of 2024. … Continue
Identifying research needs to guide conservation of a rare Florida butterfly
In Fall 2023, I was honored to receive support from the Florida Museum of Natural History to present my background … Continue
Summer 2024 Travel Awards
Jon Bloch is very pleased to announce that, after careful review by the Awards Committee (Lucas Majure, Kitty Emery, Hongshan … Continue
Visit to the Newport Aquarium
On 2/4/24, I drove 12 hours from Gainesville, FL, to Newport, KY, for the purpose of collecting flash frozen blood … Continue
Quantifying Error in Occurrence Data
The funding I received from the FLMNH travel grant afforded me the opportunity to travel to Anchorage, Alaska to attend … Continue