Latest News and Upcoming Events!
Upcoming Outreach Event:
Join us for the North Florida Research and Education Center’s Garden
and Farm Fall Festival from 9am to 2pm on October 11th in Quincy, FL.
This is a FREE community event full of fun family activities, a huge plant sale,
science experiments, a petting zoo, face painting, local vendors, hayrides, entertainment, and more!
Be sure to join our scavenger hunt while you're here to take home a pumpkin!
Wild Turkey Habitat Training Program Available Online!
If you want to learn more about managing wild turkey habitat, consider enrolling in the online turkey habitat management training program. Led by the UF/IFAS Game Lab and the Wildlife Ecology and Land Management Lab this program will lead you through field, forest, and grassland management strategies for wild turkeys and more. Follow the link below!
Lab News
2025:
- Welcome to our newest lab member! Nigel Williams begins his M. S. in SNRE this fall.
- Congratulations to M. S. student Milo Neelands! They received a scholarship from the Florida Native Plant Society to study the conservation of state endangered wild orchids, Broad leaf Nodding Caps.
- Welcome to the lab Morgan Wingo! She will begin her M. S. in SNRE this summer.
- Interested in learning how to use camera traps to detect wildlife? Check out our latest UF IFAS Extension EDIS publication “Camera Trapping for Wildlife” written by co-authors Brandon McDonald, Brittany Mason, Dr. Corey Callaghan, Dr. Marcus Lashley and Dr. Carolina Baruzzi. You can read the publication here:
- Are you a teacher or student interested in using camera traps to teach or learn ecological concepts? If so, check out our latest UF IFAS Extension EDIS publication “Lens in the Classroom: Ideas to Use Camera Traps in an Educational Setting” by Kathleen Carey, Brandon McDonald, Annesha Lahiri, Brittany Mason, I.L Esquivel, Dr. Corey Callaghan and Dr. Carolina Baruzzi. You can read the publication here:
- Congratulations to Kathleen Carey who successfully defended her M.S. thesis titled “The Role of Microbiomes in Longleaf Pine Restoration: Methods and Outcomes”.
- M. S. student Kathleen Carey presented at the American Society of Mammologists Meeting at Purdue University this summer. Her presentation title was “Uncovering the Microbiome Behind Enigmatically Low Rodent Populations”.