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Community Pollinator Toolkit Biodiversity Center

WEBThe Orchard and Pollinator Gardens on campus established by Landscape Services are located at the northwest corner of San Jacinto Blvd and 24th Street. This garden attracts …

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Plant Collections Biodiversity Center

WEBPlant Collections. The Billy L. Turner Plant Resources Center herbaria contains over 1 million specimens, making it among the largest herbaria in the southwestern United …

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Entomology Collections Biodiversity Center

WEBThe Entomology Collection contains 500,000 pinned and 1.5 million ethanol-preserved specimens, with concentrations in Lepidoptera (butterflies and moths), Coleoptera …

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Meet Stengl-Wyer Scholar: Ed Basham Biodiversity Center

WEBDecember 29, 2023 • by Nicole Elmer. Ed fundraising for a Gabon expedition in 2022. Ed Basham is one of our 2023 Stengl-Wyer Scholars. He is an amphibian ecologist, …

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Brackenridge Field Lab awarded Green Fund for community-based

WEBThe Schulle Creek Restoration Program at the Brackenridge Field Lab (BFL) has been funded by a Green Fund award from the Office of Sustainability at UT Austin. …

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Meet Stengl-Wyer Scholar Korin Rex Jones Biodiversity Center

WEBDecember 26, 2023 • by Nicole Elmer. Korin Rex Jones is one of our 2023 Stengl-Wyer Scholars. Korin is a microbial community ecology researcher fascinated by the role the …

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MEYERS, LAUREN A

WEBB.A., Harvard University (1991-1996) Ph.D., Stanford University (1996-2000) NSF Postdoctoral Fellow, Emory University and Santa Fe Institute (2000-2002)

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Endowments in Biodiversity Biodiversity Center

WEBThe Center began receiving funds even before Dr. Turner's death in 2020 and funding of the Billie L. Turner Endowment was completed during 2022. Today, interest from this …

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Giving Biodiversity Center

WEBFor questions, or to learn more about ways in which you can support and invest in the Biodiversity Center, please contact: College of Natural Sciences Development Office. …

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Service-Learning, Research & Courses Biodiversity Center

WEBThe Native Bees of Texas short course is taught by Laurel Treviño, Outreach Program Coordinator for the Jha Lab. UT Austin offers several academic credit and non-credit …

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Turtle Pond Biodiversity Center

WEBFirst known as the botanical ponds, the turtle pond was built in 1939 shortly after the construction of the UT Tower. It has since then become an urban greenspace lush with …

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Freshman Research Streams

WEBThe Biodiversity Discovery research stream led by Dr. Tom Devitt utilizes the natural history collections of the Biodiversity Center and students regularly collect data at two of our …

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History of UT Botany, Part 4: Billie L. Turner Biodiversity Center

WEBThis is part four of a History of UT Botany series. This piece ran originally for the Department of Integrative Biology History Project on April 12, 2021. I first met Billie …

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Meet Stengl-Wyer Fellow: Kathryn Appler

WEBKathryn Appler is one of our 2022 Stengl-Wyer Fellows. She is a Marine Science Ph.D. candidate in Dr. Brett Baker's Lab where she studies the diversity and …

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Pets as Invasive Species: Dogs Biodiversity Center

WEBThe Global Invasive Species Database states that domestic dogs threaten a total of 200 IUCN Red List species. Thirty of these species are classed as critically …

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