Early bloomers: Using citizen-science data to investigate unseasonal flowering in Joshua trees
In November 2019, visitors to Joshua Tree National Park in California encountered a strange sight. Joshua trees and closely related…Read More
Doug and Pam Soltis in top 1% of most highly cited scientists
Doug and Pam Soltis of the Florida Museum of Natural History were recognized last month as being in the top…Read More
More than half of educators at museums, zoos and science centers weighing career change
With the full onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in early 2020, museums faced the dilemma of having to maintain outreach…Read More
iMuseum: The difficulty with distance learning during a pandemic
In February 2020, researchers undertook a broad study of how museums used distance learning in their education programs, not anticipating…Read More
Underbite regained: Species feared extinct is the only frog with true teeth on its lower jaw
In a new study, biologists laid to rest a century-old debate by confirming that a single species of frog, out…Read More
Students return to the field with the aid of museum travel awards
Every year, the Florida Museum’s Department of Natural History awards funding for University of Florida graduate students to help cover…Read More
Alan Franck joins Florida Museum as UF Herbarium collections manager
The University of Florida Herbarium welcomed Alan Franck as its new collections manager earlier this month. As part of his…Read More
Florida volunteers see record numbers of endangered Schaus’ swallowtail butterfly
F or the past nine years, volunteers working with the Florida Museum of Natural History and the Florida Park Service…Read More
Who observes the observers? Scientists conduct large-scale study of iNaturalist users
Scientists analyzed more than 31 million iNaturalist records in a new study to find out who most often uses the…Read More
Florida freshwater mussel gets protected habitat thanks to museum collections
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has designated 190 miles of streams and rivers in Florida and Georgia as critical…Read More