Florida Museum of Natural History

Shirey Lab

Led by Vaughn Shirey · Florida Museum of Natural History (Lepidoptera)

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What we study

The lab uses museum collections and data science to study how butterflies and moths respond to human activity and environmental change. It also studies how natural history collections are built and shared.

Data Science & StatisticsEntomology

What working here is like

  • Computational
  • Fieldwork
  • Other insects
  • Coding helps
Projects
2

Current projects

Historical reconstructions and AI for insect biodiversity

Seminar topic at UF in Fall 2025.

Moth and butterfly collection digitization

Helps study, grow and digitize the McGuire Center collections.

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