Sea urchins are stuck belly
up in low-oxygen hot water
As oceans warm and become more acidic and oxygen-poor, Smithsonian researchers asked how marine life on a Caribbean coral reef copes with changing conditions.
Global Change Ecosystem Services Marine Biology Biodiversity Long-term monitoring Sustaining a Biodiverse Planet Bocas del Toro
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Rachel CollinOne-two
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New nature documentary follows Smithsonian scientists underwater
Deep reefs may represent one of the most diverse, underexplored ecosystems on the planet.
Klein Curaçao
Biodiversity Fisheries and Marine Conservation Exploration Conservation Biology Marine Biology Zoology Sustaining a Biodiverse Planet
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D. Ross RobertsonSundance
for Science
Two decades among
the birds of Panama
Between 1944 and 1966, Dr. Alexander Wetmore, a legendary ornithologist and Sixth Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, investigated the avifauna of the Isthmus of Panama. This became the basis of his four-volume ‘The Birds of the Republic of Panama’. In this webinar, STRI anthropologist Dr. Stanley Heckadon-Moreno takes us for a historical and photographic journey across Dr. Wetmore’s expeditions in Panama, with the support of Dr. Pamela Henson, director of Institutional History at the Smithsonian Institution Archives.
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Exploration Biodiversity Anthropology Natural History Taxonomy Sustaining a Biodiverse Planet Punta Galeta
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Stanley Heckadon-Moreno
Science and technology for the conservation of manatees in Bocas del Toro and the Ngäbe-Buglé region
Manatees are endangered aquatic mammals. To help protect them, researchers Héctor Guzmán from STRI, Fernando Merchán, Héctor Poveda and Javier Sánchez-Galán from the Technological University of Panama (UTP), and Guillaume Ferré from ENSEIRB-MATMECA, developed a monitoring system based on hydrophones, which detects in real-time the underwater calls these animals make to communicate with each other.
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Bioinformatics Conservation Biology Animal Behavior Fisheries and Marine Conservation Marine Biology Ecosystem Ecology Sustaining a Biodiverse Planet
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Hector M. Guzman#MisionManati
Smithsonian sleuths distinguish tropical
marine habitats in Panama using eDNA
One of the big questions about using DNA in seawater to make species lists is whether it comes from a specific site or has floated in from elsewhere. In this study researchers could distinguish different marine habitats using only DNA.
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Fisheries and Marine Conservation Molecular Genetics and Genomics Biodiversity Bioinformatics Conservation Biology Microbial Ecology Long-term monitoring Invasion Biology Connections in nature: Plants, Animals, Microbes and Environments Bocas del Toro Bocas Del Toro
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Owen McMillanAll the fish
in the sea?
Will the poor bear the brunt of coronavirus in Latin America and the Caribbean?
Different socio-economic conditions and lack of clean water may change the dynamics of COVID-19 transmission in Latin America and the Caribbean.
Disease Ecology Global Change
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Courtship movements
put katydids in danger
Females may also be prone to predation as they move toward a mating call
Barro Colorado island
Byline: Leila Nilipour
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Rachel PageRisky
Business
Science and universal education
for tackling climate change
The world economy is based on increased population and consumption, and education has an important impact on reducing this
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Text by Leila Nilipour
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Opportunities for Panamanian
students at the Smithsonian
From field courses, to internships with scientists from the Institute, the diversity of academic programs for local students interested in science is extensive.
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Text by Leila Nilipour
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The little bus that
takes science to schools
Kids explore everything from fossils to climate change when the Smithsonian’s Q?Bus arrives. Since 2018, the Q?Bus team has engaged more than 10,000 kids in 3rd to 10th grade classrooms in hands-on tropical biology.
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Connections in nature: Plants, Animals, Microbes and Environments Punta Culebra
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