The Biolink UF Exchange is a multidisciplinary directory of University of Florida faculty, researchers and staff willing to collaborate in various ways; offering lectures, workshops and connecting faculty and students with resources and information in Biodiversity.
Professor, College of Education
FIELD: Special Education -
https://education.ufl.edu/faculty/crockett-jean/
RESOURCE: Can come to your class to lecture on biodiversity and education
Contact: jcrockett@coe.ufl.edu
Bureau of Economic and Business Research
FIELD: Social Sciences -
https://www.bebr.ufl.edu/about/faculty-staff/mark-girson-bs
RESOURCE: Can provide primary and secondary social science data such as population, economic, and many other social science fields. www.bebr.ufl.edu
Contact: markgirs@ufl.edu
Associate Professor, School of Art + Art History
FIELD: Art + Technology -
http://arts.ufl.edu/directory/profile/1441
RESOURCE: Can come to your class to lecture on art and biodiversity
Contact: kgladdys@ufl.edu
Professor of Engineering and Director of the UF Honors Program
FIELD: Engineering integrated circuit device -
https://www.ece.ufl.edu/users/law-mark
RESOURCE: Can connect you with honors courses with biodiversity topics.
Contact: mlaw@eng.ufl.edu
School of Art + Art History
FIELD: Scientific Illustration –
RESOURCE: Can come to your class to lecture on how scientific illustrators transcribe specimens into visual knowledge.
Contact: mlighthipe@arts.ufl.edu
Professor and Director, Digital Worlds Institute
FIELD: Digital Arts & Sciences; Music –
http://arts.ufl.edu/directory/profile/1449
RESOURCE: Can come to your class to lecture on digital technology and biodiversity
Contact: oliverio@ufl.edu
Assistant Professor/College of Liberal Arts and Sciences/Philosophy
FIELD: Philosophy -
http://www.phil.ufl.edu/person.html?id=purves
RESOURCE: Can come to your class to lecture on the ethical dimensions biodiversity and species conservation. Interested in interdisciplinary collaboration on biodiversity at the intersection of ethics, ecology, religion, and policy.
Contact: dpurves@ufl.edu
Assistant Professor, School of Art + Art History
FIELD: Museum Studies –
http://arts.ufl.edu/directory/profile/89478/
RESOURCE: Can come to your class to lecture on museums and biodiversity
Contact: brasmussen@ufl.edu
Assistant Professor, Whitney Laboratory for Marine Bioscience
FIELD: Evolutionary Genomics -
http://ryanlab.whitney.ufl.edu/
RESOURCE: Can come to your class to lecture on marine invertebrate biodiversity. Interested in collaborating on art projects that feature marine biodiversity.
Contact: joseph.ryan@whitney.ufl.edu
Professor, History of Science, Departments of Biology and History
FIELD: History of Science -
https://people.clas.ufl.edu/bsmocovi/
RESOURCE: Can lecture on the history of taxonomy/systematics, evolution and the work of naturalists-systematists such as Linnaeus, Darwin, E. O. Wilson or evolutionary biologists such as Stephen J. Gould, G. G. Simpson and Julian Huxley; can also lecture on the history of botanical gardens, exploration, ethnobotany, and materia medica and their role in biodiversity studies.
Contact: bsmocovi@ufl.edu
Distinguished Professor
FIELD: Biology, Systematics –
https://www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/museum-voices/soltis-lab/people/principal-investigators/
RESOURCE: Can come to your class to lecture on bio-diversity. Students are welcome to work in our laboratory or in the Florida Museum.
Contact: dsoltis@ufl.edu
Distinguished Professor and Curator
FIELD: Polyploidy and plant phylogenetics –
https://www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/museum-voices/soltis-lab/people/principal-investigators/
RESOURCE: Can come to your class to lecture on plant phylogenetics and bio-diversity. Students are welcome to work in our laboratory or in the Florida Museum.
Contact: psoltis@flmnh.ufl.edu
Associate Professor, College of the Arts, School of Art History
FIELD: Pre-Columbian/Latin American Art –
http://arts.ufl.edu/directory/profile/1337
RESOURCE: I will be teaching a spring graduate seminar focusing on the colonial Americas and the theme of classifying the natural world. (ARH 6666 Colonial Latin American Art Seminar: Classifying the Natural World)
Contact: mstanfield@ufl.edu
Associate Professor, School of Art + Art History
FIELD: Interdisciplinary Art, Drawing + Workshop for art Research and Practice–
http://arts.ufl.edu/directory/profile/1713
RESOURCE: Can come to your class to lecture on contemporary art reflecting biodiversity.
A contact/resource for students exploring visual communication of research in biodiversity.
Contact: bwarp@ufl.edu
Professor, Religion
FIELD: Religion and Environment –
RESOURCE: Can come to your class to lecture on environmental issues from religious and spiritual perspectives
Contact: bron@ufl.edu
Associate Professor, School of Art + Art History
FIELD: Art Education –
http://arts.ufl.edu/directory/profile/1303/
RESOURCE: Can come to your class to lecture on art education and biodiversity
Contact: mtillander@arts.ufl.edu
Assistant Research Scientist, Medical and Veterinary Entomology
FIELD: Medical and veterinary arthropod pests –
http://entnemdept.ufl.edu/people-directory/emma-weeks/
RESOURCE: Can come to your class to lecture on pests, pets and biodiversity
Contact: eniweeks@ufl.edu
