Ed Stanley Edward Stanley

Ed is an Associate Research Scientist and director of the Digital imaging division. In addition to assisting Florida Museum scientists with their digitization projects, his research focuses on new applications of Computed Tomography data for research and education, Phylogenetics of Sub-Saharan African lizards and frogs, diversification of defensive structures and Reptile and amphibian Paleontology. In his spare time, Ed enjoys gardening and fighting the inexorable decay of his old house with various power tools.

elstanley@flmnh.ufl.edu
Research website
Twitter @DrScanley

 

 

 


Zach and caimanZachary Randall

Zach is a Biological Scientist and the Digital Imaging Division’s collection manager. He specializes in the digitization of natural history collection objects for research, education, and outreach using 2D and 3D imaging techniques. He’s an Ichthyologist and his research has focused on the systematics of freshwater fish from Southeast Asia. In his spare time, Zach is drumming, rock climbing, or landscaping.

zrandall@flmnh.ufl.edu

Website  Research Twitter


Photograph of Grace Sansone Grace Sansone

Grace develops the Virtual Reality software experiences at the Digital Imaging division, and splits her time between the Digital lab and the Office of Museum Technology. Grace picked up her interest in computer science early on, in the forms of low-level tinkering with computer hardware and software and playing and learning about video games. Along the path to choosing a field and college major, assisted by immersion in the natural world of north central Florida, she also developed a deep respect for natural sciences. Her undergraduate research involved software development and virtual reality and we suspect she took this position to to blend her dual interests of 3D imaging technology and interacting with large snakes.

In her personal life, you’ll often find Grace on north-central Florida’s paved and off-road cycling trails, at local climbing gyms and DIY/re-use stores, or out enjoying Florida’s parks and springs.

 

 

Division Alumnae


Jaimi in the Blackburn Student office Jaimi Gray 2021–2024

Jaimi was a postdoc in the Blackburn Lab and Digital Imaging Division, working on the oVert Thematic Collections Network, and NoCTURN and is responsible for many of the amazing interactive models on the Blackburn and Florida Museum Sketchfab pages. Her research includes comparative morphology of lizard skulls, arachnid weaponry, and snake brains and neurosensory systems. She has worked in field sites and labs in Australia, New Zealand, and the USA.

Jaimi is now a Research Engineering/ Scientist Associate helping run the CT facility in the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences at UT Austin.

 

 

 

Victoria scans a fossilVictoria Tran 2019–2022

Victoria got her start in the digitization world by imaging butterflies at the McGuire Center for Lepidoptera and Biodiversity. In 2019 she took over the Blue-light scanning projects at Dickinson Hall and has spent the past three years scanning fossil and extant specimens for a wide range of grants, leading several workshops and trainings. Victoria is now employed as a Digital Imaging Specialist at Yale’s Peabody Museum.