Where science meets music: a banjo player
listens for the songs of katydids

What do playing the banjo and recording katydids have in common? We join Sharon Martinson on Barro Colorado Island to find out.

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Barro Colorado

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Deep time
tracking devices

Long-distance migrations are common for large whales, but when in their evolutionary past did they begin to migrate and why? Fossil whale barnacles may have the answers

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Burica Península, Panama

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Former Smithsonian fellow
wins an Emmy award

At STRI, Jim Porter began the long-term ecological research that later became an important component of the winning documentary, Chasing Coral

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Sweet desserts drive the search
for disease-carrying mosquitoes

As researchers ask which disease-carrying mosquito species will rule Panama’s Azuero Penninsula (and perhaps the world), they discover culinary delights along the way.

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Azuero, Panama
Cover photo — Mamallena at La Arena bakery in Panama

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Generous donation allows STRI to
establish a living laboratory
in the Tropical Eastern Pacific

Coibita Island, part of a World Heritage Site in Panama’s Pacific, is poised to become a leading research site for tropical marine biology.

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Coibita Island
William Wcislo
Senior Scientist & Deputy Director for Research

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Predators learn to identify
prey from other predators

It is much faster to learn to recognize a new prey item from a neighboring species, than to learn by trial and error.

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Gamboa, Panamá

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Response to drought depends
on forest age

Young forests adjust more readily.

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Agua Salud

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