Leveraging Climate and Genomic Data to Support At-Risk Butterfly Conservation; Monday, February 23rd, 1:55pm-2:45pm

I’m giving a seminar talk on my Ph.D. work for #UFSNRE tomorrow afternoon! Check it out: bit.ly/SNRE-Butterfly

Protecting rare butterflies of Florida’s pine flats and prairies The Loammi skipper (Atrytonopsis loammi) is a small, wedge-shaped butterfly with stubby antennas and bulbous black eyes in a fuzzy face. It once lived throughout a good deal of the Southeastern U.S. b...

Check out this blog post by @floridamuseum.bsky.social about my summer fieldwork studying the Loammi skipper. Thanks to the FLMNH outreach team, everyone who helped me in the field and lab & to my funders! #FloridaMuseum #DisneyConserves #UFSNRE 🦋🌾

Pizza base with a roasted chicken and chocolate sprinkles on top, representing an Abstract of three different projects combined in a single dissertation; taken from Jeremy Trimble on (the late) Twitter

It seems I’ll be able to discuss philosophical scientific questions in ecology after all!

Today I passed my quals and became a PhD candidate #UFSNRE #UFWildlife @floridamuseum.bsky.social!!

Thanks terrific advisors and committee #MiguelAAcevedo, #ScottKRobinson, #BetteALoiselle & #EbenNBroadbent