Assistant Curator of Ichthyology

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Assistant Curator of Ichthyology

The Florida Museum of Natural History at the University of Florida (UF) seeks qualified applicants for a -month tenure-track Assistant Curator of Ichthyology. This position will be filled at the Assistant faculty level in the Florida Museum’s . The UF fish collection at the Florida Museum of Natural History is one of the largest collections of its kind worldwide, with around 2.5 million specimens. In specimen records, it is the second largest fish collection in the United States. Strengths include elasmobranchs (sharks, skates and rays), western Atlantic reef fishes, western and eastern Atlantic shelf and deep-water marine fishes, North American freshwater fishes, and freshwater fishes from SE Asia. The modernized collection is % georeferenced, has tissue samples and 2D and 3D images for thousands of species, and during 2–5 was moved to a state-of-the-art facility with an adjoining sq ft colle...