Contact
Florida Museum of Natural History
Dickinson Hall
1659 Museum Road
Gainesville, Florida 32611-7800
352-273-1943
dblackburn@flmnh.ufl.edu
Collections & Programs
openVertebrate (oVert) Project
Other Affiliations
Chair, Department of Natural History
University Term Professor, 2021–2024
Affiliate Faculty in UF’s Departments of Biology and Wildlife Ecology & Conservation, Tropical Conservation and Development program, School of Natural Resources and Environment, Center for African Studies, and School of Art + Art History.
Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science
Fellow, California Academy of Sciences
Fellow, SEC Academic Leadership Program, 2024–2025
UF Research Foundation Term Professor, 2023–2026, University of Florida
Education
Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Kansas
Ph.D., Harvard University
A.B., University of Chicago
Research Interests
Diversity, evolution, and conservation of amphibians, especially African frogs
Publications
Recent Research News
Florida Museum curators David Blackburn and Robert Guralnick elected 2023 AAAS fellows
Two faculty members at the Florida Museum of Natural History have been elected as 2023 fellows of the American Association…
Maria Vallejo receives Emerging Scholar Award from the Association for Academic Women
María Vallejo-Pareja, a doctoral candidate at the University of Florida, has won an Emerging Scholar Award from the Association for…
Scientists CT scanned thousands of natural history specimens, which you can access for free
Natural history museums have entered a new stage of scientific discovery and accessibility with the completion of openVertebrate (oVert), a…