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  • Collection Managers Panel

    The Collection Managers Panel discussion hosted by the Florida Museum Student Association was awesome! Working in a Natural History Museum quickly became a dream job of mine as an undergraduate, when I volunteered in the small herbarium at my college. This experience and the idea of working in museum collections is what first planted the… Read more

  • CV Writing Workshop

    CV Writing Workshop The Florida Museum Student Association (FMSA) and the UF Career Connection Center (C3) hosted a CV writing workshop tailored for graduate students led by Sammie Herrera, the CALS liaison with C3. Since a curriculum vitae is usually an applicant’s first point of contact with a prospective employer, workshop participants discussed how to… Read more

  • Photoshop Workshop

    Photoshop Workshop I have been using Adobe Photoshop for several years to primarily clean and enhance images for research purposes. I enjoy wildlife photography, so in addition to research-related purposes, I have used Photoshop in the past to edit and add effects to photographs in my leisure time. This software tool is useful for researchers… Read more

  • HiPerGator Beginner and Advanced Workshops

    HiPerGator Beginner and Advanced Workshops HiPerGator (HPG) is the University of Florida’s high-performance computing system that is designed to aid faculty, staff, and students with their high demanding computing needs. HPG is especially useful for scientists and researchers because it provides all the tools necessary for analyzing huge amounts of data that is otherwise hard… Read more

  • iNaturalist Workshop: Using iNaturalist Records in Your Research

    Using iNaturalist Records in Your Research To help students and faculty realize the full potential of the citizen science resource iNaturalist, we had a wonderful presentation by Dr. Vijay Barve on its many uses. He began with a quick tutorial on how to use the app – a good reminder for how easily an educator… Read more

  • iNaturalist Workshop: Using iNaturalist Records in Your Research

    Using iNaturalist Records in Your Research To help students and faculty realize the full potential of the citizen science resource iNaturalist, we had a wonderful presentation by Dr. Vijay Barve on its many uses. He began with a quick tutorial on how to use the app – a good reminder for how easily an educator… Read more