Please join us June 18th, 2026, at 11:30 for Jonathan Mays, Associate Research Scientist with the Fish and Wildlife Research Institute, FWC.

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Jonathan is an Associate Research Scientist for FWC’s Fish and Wildlife Research Institute. He received his B.S. in Wildlife and Fisheries Science from Tennessee Technological University (1998) and an M.S. from Western Carolina University (2002), where he studied cave arthropod communities in Great Smoky Mountains National Park. After several years working for the National Park Service, Jonathan worked for North Carolina’s Wildlife Resource Commission for two years focusing on faunal diversity research (e.g., Bog Turtles, rare salamanders), followed by a six-year stint with Maine’s Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife as a herpetologist/invertebrate zoologist. He relocated to Gainesville in 2012 and began work with FWRI in 2013. His current research interests include inventory and monitoring of the federally endangered Miami tiger beetle and it’s pine-rockland habitat, obligate invertebrate commensals of gopher tortoise burrows, distribution and ecology of rare fireflies and tiger beetles, and a statewide cave faunal inventory.

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