Randell Research Center teams up with GatorCorps and Gulf Scholars to tackle climate change on Pine Island, Florida
The Florida Museum’s Randell Research Center was hit by two major hurricanes this year. Helene rolled along the Gulf Coast…
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Scientists can now predict how climate change will alter plant growth cycles
On February 2, 1887, residents of Punxsutawney Pennsylvania consulted a large rodent regarding the arrival of spring, marking the first…
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National Academy of Sciences names Megan Ennes early career fellow in education research
Megan Ennes, curator of museum education at the Florida Museum of Natural History, has been named a 2024-2026 research fellow…
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Florida pottery expert, Ann Cordell, receives lifetime achievement award
Florida is peppered with broken pottery, vestiges of a time when Indigenous people throughout the peninsula molded clay into cooking…
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Michelle LeFebvre assumes new role as director of Randell Research Center
The Florida Museum’s Randell Research Center has a new director! Michelle LeFebvre, curator of South Florida archaeology and ethnography, as…
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Florida Museum curator helps team score 1st-place and $5 million in international biodiversity competition
Robert Guralnick, curator of bioinformatics at the Florida Museum of Natural History, is a member of an international team that…
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Interactive museum exhibit shows how paleontologists study the past
A recent paleontology exhibit at the Florida Museum of Natural History put fossils and scientists on full display. The exhibit…
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University of Florida offers new archaeology field course based in Gainesville
Archaeologists at the Florida Museum of Natural History want to remind students that the past is just beneath their feet….
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Fossils from the Adriatic Sea show a recent and worrying reversal of fortunes
If you’d stopped monitoring the Adriatic Sea’s marine life in the mid-20th century, the outlook would have been promising. Snails…
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Three Florida Museum postdocs receive UF awards
Three postdoctoral associates at the Florida Museum of Natural History have received awards from the University of Florida highlighting their…
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