Category: Conservation

Person seated beside a stereomicroscope in a laboratory workspace, facing the camera. Shelving, labeled containers, laboratory supplies, buckets with marker flags, and scientific equipment are visible throughout the room, with the microscope positioned prominently on the workbench in the foreground.

Intern Profile: Cassidy Dalton’s Journey in Research and Learning

by Joe McQueen
August 4, 2026

Cassidy Dalton, an undergraduate student at the University of Florida studying environmental management, natural resources and agriculture, has spent her summer as an intern at the Hayslip Biological Control Research and Containment Laboratory, ... READ MORE

Category: Conservation, Invasive Species, Natural Resources, Pests & Disease, UF/IFAS Research
Tags: Biological Control, Intern, Invasive Species, Pasture Mealybug
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Reaching New Depths: IRREC Pioneers Culture of Japanese Masked Swallowtail Angelfish

by Joe McQueen
July 6, 2026

The University of Florida Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences (UF/IFAS) Indian River Research and Education Center’s (IRREC) aquaculture laboratory, directed by Dr. Cortney Ohs, has received a rare species of fish to try to culture at ... READ MORE

Category: Coasts & Marine, Conservation, UF/IFAS Research, Wildlife
Tags: #aquaculture, #aquatics, Conservation, Ornamental Fish

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