From aquarist to star inventor
What started as a student summer job, became Anibal Velarde’s life’s work. Over fifty years later, he is still at the Smithsonian
Naos
Text by Leila Nilipour
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Solving a crusty mystery
Why do some male bats have sticky, odorous arms? The first clues only led to more questions. But now a new sleuth, Mariana Muñoz-Romo, described by a colleague as “probably the world’s expert on chemical communication in a bat species,” is on the case.
Gamboa
Animal Behavior Evolutionary Biology Zoology Biodiversity Natural History Origins of Species and Societies Gamboa
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Rachel PageBat
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Service pins ceremony, Science Café, L’Oreal-UNESCO women in science prize, UNACHI visit to Naos laboratories, Gigante Course, and more
Service pins ceremony, Science Café, L’Oreal-UNESCO women in science prize, UNACHI visit to Naos laboratories, Gigante Course, and more
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Constant change drives
local ecosystems
A MarineGEO project with sites in Panama aims to understand the influence of coastal biology on the highly variable oceanic pH levels of near-shore ecosystems
Bocas del Toro
Text by Leila Nilipour
Photos by Jorge Alemán
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Color and Vision
Art and science on the same wavelength
Biodiversity Natural History Animal Behavior Evolutionary Biology Zoology Connections in nature: Plants, Animals, Microbes and Environments Earl S. Tupper
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Owen McMillan William Wcislo Helene Muller-Landau Ira Rubinoff Fernando Santos-Granero
Living coral cover will slow
future reef dissolution
In situ experiment on Great Barrier Reef tests future ocean acidification scenario
Great Barrier Reef
Fisheries and Marine Conservation Zoology Marine Biology Biodiversity Conservation Biology Sustaining a Biodiverse Planet Naos
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What’s lurking
under the forest?
As part of her doctoral work, Heather Stewart is exploring what factors influence the marine sessile community growing on mangrove roots and what is driving the coral invasion of Bocas del Toro mangrove forests, a unique phenomenon
Text by Leila Nilipour
Photos by Jorge Alemán
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For the Love of Forests
Kristina Anderson-Teixeira receives the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) for her work on the effects of climate change on the worlds’ forests.
Panama
Conservation Biology Biodiversity Animal Behavior Global Change Taxonomy Sustaining a Biodiverse Planet Barro Colorado
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Stuart Davies Kristina Anderson-TeixeiraPresident’s
Prize
STRI at the Anthropology congress, Steve Paton at mangrove workshop, new park ranger building, Punta Culebra updates, and more
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Flickering sky islands
generate Andean biodiversity
Giving rise to the richest alpine flora in the world, interconnections between islands of Andean paramo vegetation flicker off and on as global temperatures rise and fall during the last million years
Colombian Andes
Paleontology and Paleobiology Biodiversity Global Change Evolutionary Ecology Origins of Species and Societies Naos
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Aaron O'Dea
