Douglas S. Jones
Douglas Jones is Director of the Florida Museum of Natural History in Gainesville. Located on the campus of the University of Florida, the Florida Museum of Natural History is one of the most comprehensive university-based natural history museums in the U.S. with over 40 million specimens and artifacts in its permanent collections. Dr. Jones received his Ph.D. in 1980 from Princeton University. He has been a curator of paleontology at the Museum since 1985 and is also a professor in the Departments of Geological Sciences and Biology at UF. Dr. Jones has authored over 150 scientific and technical papers and edited several books, including most recently, The Geology of Florida. He is past president of the Board of Directors of the Florida Association of Museums (FAM), the Association of Science Museum Directors (ASMD) and was Chairman of the Board of the American Alliance of Museums (AAM) which represents the 30,000+ museums in the USA. He recently received AAM’s 2024 Distinguished Service to Museums award.