Fall 2024 Travel Awards
David Blackburn is very pleased to announce that, after careful review by the Awards Committee (Gavin Naylor, Advait Jukar, Ed … Continue
PhD research on Sea Stars in the Invertebrate Zoology Collections at the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History
This summer the Florida Museum Travel Award gave me the opportunity to visit the Invertebrate Zoology Department at the Smithsonian … Continue
Determining the Origin of Birds Killed by Window Collision Using Hydrogen Stable Isotopes
Over the summer, I participated in the SPATIAL Short Course 2024 cohort in Salt Lake City, Utah. This course was … Continue
Presentation at the Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles & MicroCT scanning skink specimens
Thanks to the travel grant I received from the Gapenski Endowment I was able to travel to Ann Arbor, MI to … Continue
Early Miocene Snakes from Florida and a Reassessment of North American Fossil Boines
Receiving the Fall 2023 FLMNH Travel Award allowed me to attend the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology’s (SVP) annual meeting in … Continue
International Conference Participation and Collaborative Fieldwork
It is my honor to receive the FLMNH Summer 2024 Travel Award, and thanks to the funding support, I get … Continue
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