New Program Heads
Originally published in the February 1999 issue of CLASnotes.
Harvey B. Lillywhite (Zoology)
Director of Seahorse Key Marine Laboratory
"The UF Marine Laboratory at Seahorse Key is located 57 miles west of Gainesville on the Gulf Coast, three miles offshore from Cedar Key. It is a field station committed to providing (a) support for multidisciplinary research by students, faculty, and visiting scientists, (b) an outstanding teaching program in marine related subjects, and (c) support for public education related to marine, estuarine and coastal resources of the state of Florida. Seahorse Key is part of the Cedar Keys National Wildlife Refuge and is a strategic location for ecological studies, particularly those related to environmental change. Research and teaching activities using the Marine Laboratory facilities include undergraduate projects, masters and doctoral theses, and faculty research connected to a broad range of departments and programs including Zoology, Botany, Fisheries and Aquaculture, Geology, Environmental Engineering, and Wildlife Conservation."
Jon Reiskind (Zoology)
Coordinator, Biological Sciences Program
"The Biological Sciences Program combines the talents of the Botany and Zoology faculties to provide undergraduate students with a firm foundation in the biological sciences. It not only serves all the life science majors at UF, but gives the premed and other prehealth professional students their biological fundamentals as well. In addition, it provides non-science students the biological background with which they can better fulfill their responsibilities to themselves and their communities, making them more aware of the natural environment and their own health in a technologically complex world."
- Zoology Undergraduate Web Page: http://www.zoo.ufl.edu
- Undergrad Biological Sciences Program Web Page: http://www.bsc.ufl.edu
