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Grants & Initiatives

Assorted preserved butterflies

Grants & Initiatives

$2.5 million NSF grant to fund online butterfly family tree, field guide

September 23, 2015

Butterflies have been objects of scientific research for hundreds of years, but information about the popular insects is scattered across…
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Campanulaceae clade diagram

Grants & Initiatives

New NSF project aims to help scientists navigate the tree of life

June 18, 2015

A new University of Florida and Duke University collaboration aims to do for the tree of life what Google Earth…
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scientist scans fossil

Collections

iDigBio effort awarded $7.5 million to digitize biodiversity collections

August 25, 2014

The National Science Foundation has awarded six grants totaling about $7.5 million to digitize biodiversity collections, a nationwide effort coordinated…
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Philodoria hibiscella moth

Grants & Initiatives

Museum researcher wins NSF grant to study rare Hawaiian moths

February 20, 2014

A Florida Museum of Natural History researcher has received $150,000 from the National Science Foundation to study endangered moth species…
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fossil

Community Science

UF receives $1.97 million NSF grant to develop paleontology network

February 10, 2014

With the goal of promoting life-long learning, University of Florida researchers will use a four-year, $1.97 million National Science Foundation…
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A brown, tan and black patterned butterfly with blueish tint on its wings

Grants & Initiatives

Researchers receive $450,000 NSF grant to classify butterfly group

September 11, 2013

Florida Museum of Natural History scientists have received a three-year, $458,104 National Science Foundation grant to research a common, but…
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A sawfish swims near a boat of researchers

Grants & Initiatives

Museum receives $24,000 from Disney to support sawfish conservation

October 2, 2012

Researchers at the Florida Museum recently received $24,000 from the Disney Worldwide Conservation Fund to continue studying the endangered smalltooth…
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Scientists cataloging specimens

Collections

Museum receives $339,000 to digitize invertebrate collections

September 19, 2012

Florida Museum of Natural History invertebrate zoology researchers recently received a National Science Foundation grant to further digitize the department’s…
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Akito Kawahara holds a blue-green hornworm on his finger

Grants & Initiatives

Museum researcher receives $24,000 to study hawkmoth relationships

September 18, 2012

A Florida Museum of Natural History lepidopterist recently received $24,000 to research the evolutionary relationships of an agricultural pest known…
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A scientist scans fossil

Collections

Museum receives $455,000 grant to curate, digitize vertebrate fossils

July 2, 2012

A new National Science Foundation grant allows scientists to prepare vertebrate paleontology specimens at the Florida Museum of Natural History,…
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