Contact
Florida Museum of Natural History
Dickinson Hall
1659 Museum Road
Gainesville, Florida 32611-7800
352-273-1943
dblackburn@flmnh.ufl.edu
X: @davidcblackburn
Collections & Programs
openVertebrate (oVert) Project
Other Affiliations
Associate Chair, Department of Natural History
University Term Professor, 2021–2024
Affiliate Faculty in UF’s Department of Biology, Tropical Conservation and Development program, School of Natural Resources and Environment, and Center for African Studies.
Lead PI, oVert Thematic Collections Network
Fellow and Research Associate, California Academy of Sciences
Education
Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Kansas
Ph.D., Harvard University
A.B., University of Chicago
Research Interests
Diversity, evolution, and conservation of amphibians, especially African frogs
Publications
Recent Research News
Florida Museum curators David Blackburn and Robert Guralnick elected 2023 AAAS fellows
Two faculty members at the Florida Museum of Natural History have been elected as 2024 fellows of the American Association…
Maria Vallejo receives Emerging Scholar Award from the Association for Academic Women
María Vallejo-Pareja, a doctoral candidate at the University of Florida, has won an Emerging Scholar Award from the Association for…
Scientists CT scanned thousands of natural history specimens, which you can access for free
Natural history museums have entered a new stage of scientific discovery and accessibility with the completion of openVertebrate (oVert), a…