Photos

Prescribed burn

Nature notebook — annotated wasp illustration with anatomical observations

Academic Co-op Lab: Hands-on science with young learners

Emily's class at Steephead

Students gather in the forest during a Biology of Lower Vertebrates field trip.

Setting up acoustic recording equipment at a pond edge at night

Academic Co-op Lab: Demonstrating lab techniques

Nature notebook — Luna moth with labeled antennae, forewing, hindwing, and abdomen

Experimental Biology, Fall 2022 — Gulf Specimen Marine Lab

A student holds up a stream sample collected during a field activity.

Watercolor sketch of a butterfly

Fire-backed crayfish

Students collect water samples from a forest stream during a course field trip.

Holding a small turtle in the field

Homeschool Field Day 2026: Group photo

Students examine a muddy stream bed during an Experimental Biology field activity.

Field crew during a Pseudacris sampling trip, 2013

Nature notebook — spider with labeled anatomy

Field trip: Exploring the forest together

Freshwater turtles in a mesh net

Nature notebook — bee anatomical study with labeled wings, legs, and eyes

Lab field trip with Santiago Ron, 2015

Lab day: Learning to use a micropipette

Turtle in a collection bucket

Field turtle handling

Lab day: Young scientist at work

Nature notebook — pressed leaf and colored-pencil leaf sketch with veining

Nature notebook — wasp with yellow head and striped abdomen

Lab day: Examining bacterial cultures

Close-up of a small aquatic turtle

Lab group field trip to the Appalachians, 2009

Nature notebook — death in nature: annotated frog sketch

Lab day: PCR prep with microcentrifuge tubes

Yellow-bellied turtle in the field

Nature notebook — bee on the sidewalk with labeled body parts

Field outreach: Examining specimens with Carl Gerhardt

Field research team with samples

Lynea Witczak collecting samples in the field

Lab day: Learning to operate lab instrumentation

Nature notebook — honey bee and wasp head watercolor studies

Field course students in the woods

Nature notebook — five-lobed leaf in yellow and brown colored pencil

Lab day: Group photo at the Biomek workstation

Sampling in a forest stream

Diamondback terrapin at FSU Marine Lab, October 2025

Outreach: Group portrait on campus

Collecting stream samples

Nature notebook — slender tree with red blossoms in a landscape

Lab day: Hands-on pipetting practice

Field course group photo in the forest

Field setup at Tsinia Wildlife Viewing Area

Lab day: Examining bacterial cultures in petri dishes

Examining a field sample

Nature notebook — moths & butterflies: labeled moth and butterfly studies

Lab day: Working in the biosafety cabinet

Field course students gathered in the woods

Researchers recording data in the field

Nature notebook — dragonfly with labeled wings, eyes, and abdomen

Field outreach: Sampling in the wetlands

Collecting soil samples in the field

Emily Lemmon holding a diamondback terrapin at the FSU Marine Lab, St. Teresa, Florida

Outreach: Night-time field exploration with headlamps

Transferring a field sample

Nature notebook — fall landscape with trees, fallen leaves, and a jack-o'-lantern

Outreach: Night frog hunt with headlamps

Inspecting a collected sample

Plague Puddle — flooded woodland habitat

Outreach: Reviewing field data together

Field course group at the roadside

Outreach: Young scientist examining a specimen up close

Examining a small snake in the field

Seining in the creek

Outreach: Hands-on specimen dissection outdoors

Nature notebook — butterfly and moth studies with labeled anatomy

Flooded swamp forest habitat with cypress knees

Nature notebook — green dragonfly with labeled wings and abdomen

Emily Lemmon with a Collared lizard at Konza Prairie, Kansas.

Outreach: Preparing specimens in the lab

Outreach: Careful specimen work with tweezers

Preference trailer assembly

Outreach: Proud of a specimen find

Nature notebook — fall leaves landscape with rolling hills and trees

Outreach: Group photo before a night frog hunt

Outreach: Field group ready for nocturnal survey

Outreach: Meeting a caterpillar up close

Sympatric pond habitat

Outreach: Field day group photo

Nature notebook — aspen leaves of fall: watercolor tree landscape

Outreach: Building molecular models with gumdrops

Fluorescent barking tree frog under UV light

Outreach: Constructing candy molecule structures

Outreach: Hands-on molecular model building

Cypress forest

Outreach: Learning the periodic table with candy

Matt Brandley and Emily Lemmon in Australia with a Shingleback lizard.

Cypress swamp

Outreach: Young chemists at work

Emily Lemmon with a Blue-tongued skink in Australia.

Outreach: Exploring biofluorescence with UV light

Outreach: UV light investigation on the porch

Forgotten Coast habitat

Outreach: Volcano experiment on the driveway

Outreach: Foaming chemical reactions demo

Black Water River State Forest

Outreach: Bacterial cultures from swabbed surfaces

Outreach: Petri dish microbial colonies

Outreach: Examining bacterial growth on agar

Apalachicola River

Outreach: Colorful sand art activity

Outreach: Pipetting in the lab with students

Palmettos in the Apalachicola National Forest

Outreach: Examining a specimen up close

Outreach: A tiny frog on a fingertip

Field habitat research

Outreach: Learning about mammals with animal models

Apalachicola National Forest

Outreach: Sorting animal figures at the table

Outreach: Engaging with toy animal collections

Mysia, fieldwork at a wetland

Outreach: Showing off frogs caught on a night hunt

Outreach: A young frog catcher with a bullfrog

Outreach: Collecting specimens in the field

Courtney Whitcher, fieldwork at night with a frog

Outreach: Examining driftwood and specimens together

Alexa Warwick, recording frog calls at night

Outreach: Sculpting with colorful modeling clay

Outreach: Rainbow clay creations

Fieldwork — snake in the side mirror

Outreach: Crafting with clay at the table

Outreach: A colorful clay sculpture in progress

Bruce Means with 'Exploring Islands in the Sky'

Outreach: Proud of a clay creation

Outreach: Showing off layered clay art

Outreach: A bright smile with a clay craft

Outreach: Displaying purple clay pieces

Outreach: Foaming volcano reaction in a bowl

Outreach: Three volcano eruptions at once

Outreach: Volcano experiment trio

Outreach: Excited scientist watches the eruption

Outreach: Group photo by the swamp

Outreach: Classroom celebration with treats

Outreach: Sculpting clay together

Outreach: Clay project around the table

Outreach: Sharing treats and crafts

Outreach: Examining glass slides

Outreach: Layered sediment column experiment

Outreach: Studying atmospheric layers with a sediment column

Chiara, outreach with a scarlet kingsnake

Kathryn Merritt at the Undergraduate Research Symposium, 2023

Frog box field setup on deck at night — Auburn, AL

Frog box field station with laptop and recording gear — Auburn, AL

Frog box under construction — clamping the insulated chamber

Nicole Povelikin and mentors Alan and Emily Lemmon

Hannah Burke receiving the John Mark Caffrey Memorial Scholarship, Fall 2023

Undergraduate researchers with their posters, 2023

Inside the frog box — microphone and mesh screen in the chamber

Frog box setup with laptop, coolers, and audio recorder

Recording setup with Audacity and M-Audio interface — Carlie Anderson

Recording boxes session — Alan and student, 2023

Recording boxes session — Alan at the audio interface, 2023

Recording boxes with temperature controllers and coolers, 2023

Hannah Squier with her research poster on GABA receptor evolution

Chorus frog Integrative Biology Group: L to R, Dr. Rishi Alluri, Vinayak Kamath (Ph.D. Candidate), Prof. Gary Rose, Anwesha Mukhopadhyay (Ph.D. Candidate), Prof. Alan Lemmon, Prof. Emily Lemmon

Preference experiment data entry on laptops with arena monitors

Mobile preference testing trailer at the Tsinia Wildlife Viewing Area

Working inside the preference testing trailer

Audacity waveform analysis from preference testing

Preference testing trailer setup in the field

Preparing equipment beside the preference testing trailer

Undergraduates working at the lab computer station

Lab group in the Lemmon Lab

Jack Daunt working in the lab, June 2024

Froglet in late metamorphosis with golden iris and residual tail

Moses Michelsohn holding a large turtle caught during aquatic fieldwork

Lab members working at the bench

Lab members working together at a laptop

Lab member examining a sample under the microscope, 2009

Lab group dissecting together

Michelle and Felipe examining a salamander in the lab

Moses Michelsohn and Brian Caudle working at a lab bench

Carlie Anderson working in the lab

Colony of tadpoles

Miguel Mejias and Alysha Salapak doing dissections in the lab

Metamorphosing froglet with fully developed legs and a reducing tail

Young tadpole with early hind limb buds resting on a white tray

Four recording boxes with temperature controllers and coolers

Newly metamorphosed froglet standing on a white surface

Juvenile frog in profile showing mottled skin and golden eye

Froglet perched on the rim of a rearing container with sphagnum substrate

Young frog resting on the edge of a translucent rearing tub

Outdoor rearing tubs housing tadpoles in murky water with submerged vegetation

Tadpoles developing in a livestock tank filled with water and dried vegetation

Late-stage tadpole with developing hind legs on a white surface

Preference testing arena setup on monitor

Lisa Barrow and Mallory Bedwell examining a small froglet in the field

Kaya Simmons, field research at Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory, Sept 2025

Kaya Simmons, field research with a bird, Sept 2025

Bryan Allen, working in the lab

Connor Walsh, fieldwork at night

Kristen Engebretsen, working in the lab

Madison Kucinick, pipetting in the lab

Miguel Mejias, fieldwork at night with a frog

Nika Povelikin, fieldwork with a snake

Nika Povelikin, Ecuador fieldwork, May 2023

Alysha Salapak, field research in the swamp

Saisrinivas Ennnam, 2023 graduation

Interior view of the preference testing arena

Lisa Barrow and Mallory Bedwell unloading field equipment from a truck

Lisa Barrow with a bird perched on her shoulder in the field

Lisa Barrow surveying a stream with a dip net during fieldwork

Alexa Warwick taking measurements during nighttime fieldwork

Alexa Warwick holding a green frog illuminated by headlamp at night

Alexa Warwick with a small green frog on her finger during nighttime fieldwork

Alan Lemmon holding a specimen during an Apalachicola field trip

Moses Michelsohn observing a turtle in its forest habitat

Moses Michelsohn examining a specimen during Dead Things A-Thon 2010

Moses Michelsohn and Brian Caudle working at the lab bench with lab supplies

Hannah Burke at the Undergraduate Research Symposium, April 2024

Anwesha Mukhopadhyay, Jaime McDowell, and Rishi Alluri with their research poster

Undergraduate researcher pipetting in the lab

Kaya Simmons and Grace Hickey — 2025 Barry Goldwater Scholars (FSU News)

Marie Weber at the Undergraduate Research Symposium, April 2024

Hannah Squier and Katy Merritt at the Undergraduate Research Symposium, April 2024

Ivor Ho with Peter Beerli at the Undergraduate Research Symposium, April 2024

Hannah Squier, Katy Merritt, and Alan Lemmon at the Undergraduate Research Symposium, April 2024

Marie Weber and Alan Lemmon at the Undergraduate Research Symposium, April 2024

Michelle Kortyna, working in the lab

Courtney Weintraub and Alan Lemmon at the Undergraduate Research Symposium, April 2024

Matthew Baran at the Undergraduate Research Symposium, April 2024

Field crew assembling the preference testing trailer

Monitor view of the preference testing arena with reference markers

Preference testing workstation inside the trailer

KHS 50th Anniversary, November 2023

Stan Roth at the KHS 50th Anniversary, November 2023

Anwesha Mukhopadhyay and Jaime McDowell with their research poster

Michael Conry, working in the lab

Electrophysiology recording — Spike2 data acquisition interface showing neural signal traces and spectrogram.

Electrophysiology recording — Spike2 signal channels and spectrogram detail.

Electrophysiology recording — Spike2 multi-channel view with membrane potential and stimulus traces.

Electrophysiology recording — Spike2 waveform analysis with stimulus spectrogram.

Electrophysiology setup — researchers at the recording workstation.

Electrophysiology recording — Spike2 trace showing spike events and stimulus waveforms.

Electrophysiology lab — Prof. Gary Rose and Dr. Rishi Alluri working with recording equipment and electrode mapping diagrams.

Electrophysiology lab — Prof. Gary Rose preparing a specimen under the stereomicroscope during a recording session.

Electrophysiology lab — Prof. Gary Rose at the stereomicroscope during an intracellular recording.

Electrophysiology lab — glass micropipette electrodes prepared for intracellular recording.

Electrophysiology — frog specimen secured on the recording platform during an experiment.

Electrophysiology lab — research team during a recording session.

Electrophysiology — electrode and pipette positioned for a frog brain recording.