Unraveling sustainable forest
management while in confinement
Edwin H. García started as a Bachelor student in Agua Salud 8 years ago. Now he leads a research project that will allow for estimating the value of native trees for reforestation and restoration
Colón
Ecosystem Services Ecosystem Ecology Reforestation and Silviculture Biodiversity Forest Ecology Global Change Sustaining a Biodiverse Planet Agua Salud
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Jefferson Hall
A Temperature Tipping Point
for Tropical Forests
A study in Science by 225 researchers working with data from 590 forest sites around the world concludes that tropical forests release much more carbon into the atmosphere at high temperatures.
Global
Forest Ecology Global Change Plant Physiology Biodiversity Natural History Sustaining a Biodiverse Planet Barro Colorado
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Stuart DaviesStabilize
the Climate
Punta Culebra
during COVID-19
While we stay home waiting for the pandemic to pass, the animals at the Nature Center wait patiently for the day when we can visit them again
Panama City
Punta Culebra Punta Culebra
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What do we know
about Darien's forests?
A scientific mission in the Panamanian jungle found some of the largest trees in the country
Darién
Text by: Catherine Potvin
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of Giants
Plenty of gloom with a dash of hope: Fossils reveal a lone reef in similar state to coral reefs before human impact
Fossil corals show what reefs were like before human impact and reveal a modern “bright spot” reef with apparent long-term resilience to deterioration caused by humans.
Bocas del Toro
Paleontology and Paleobiology Conservation Biology Marine Biology Evolutionary Biology Geology Life in Deep Time Bocas del Toro
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Aaron O'DeaBright
spot
The marine fossil explorer
The Panamanian scientist Carlos De Gracia discovered the largest known marlin fossil, helped improve the classification of these ancient species and now seeks to understand how the fish of millions of years ago reacted to changes in the ocean similar to those we are experiencing today
Colón
Text by Leila Nilipour, STRI
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Carlos JaramilloA fishy
past
Parasitoid Wasps may turn spiders into zombies by hacking their internal code
Parasitoid wasps lay their eggs on a spider’s back. This team proposes that by injecting the spider host with the molting hormone, ecdysone, the wasp induces the spider to make a special web for the wasp’s pupa.
Costa Rica
Animal Behavior Entomology Natural History Biodiversity Origins of Species and Societies
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William EberhardHormone
Hang-Ups
Amphibian skin bacteria is more diverse in cold and variable environments according to global survey
Frog researchers swabbed 205 amphibian species to better understand the ecology of their skin bacteria. Which environmental factors influence the makeup of their microbiomes?
Worlwide
Herpetology Microbial Ecology Conservation Biology Global Change Ecology Biodiversity Connections in nature: Plants, Animals, Microbes and Environments Gamboa
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Roberto IbañezDermal
Disruption
Panamanian students,
scientists in the making
For these four women, the Smithsonian Institute’s internship program represented an opportunity to explore their research questions in the field
Panama City, Panama
Marine Biology Soil Science Botany Plant Physiology Naos Barro Colorado
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in Science
Chocolate tasting, Jazz and Banjo Picking, Welcome Kirk Broders, Welcome Leila Nilipour, Smithsonian’s New Communication Chief visits STRI, Congrats Ummat and more
Chocolate tasting, Jazz and Banjo Picking, Welcome Kirk Broders, Welcome Leila Nilipour, Smithsonian’s New Communication Chief visits STRI, Congrats Ummat and more
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