STRI special events,
September 2023
Advisory Board Meeting, Visiting Committee, STRI at Job Fair, National Contest of Scientific Journalism and more
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Events
100 Years of Tropical Biology at the Smithsonian’s Barro Colorado Island Research Station in Panama
The Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute will celebrate 100 years of tropical forest research at Barro Colorado Island Field Station in Panama with exhibits and events.
Text by Beth King
Biodiversity Animal Behavior Long-term monitoring Global Change Historical Ecology Sustaining a Biodiverse Planet Barro Colorado
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Birthday BCI
Panama protects over 54% of its oceans with the expansion of Banco Volcán
This action will help the country mitigate climate change, protect Panama's deep-sea marine-mountain environments, and safeguard wildlife from human intervention.
Biodiversity Fisheries and Marine Conservation Marine Biology Global Change Conservation Biology Sustaining a Biodiverse Planet
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Hector M. GuzmanBlue
pioneer
New interactive map of indigenous fishing practices around the pacific rim
Dedicated to “the Ancestors who stewarded the ocean” an interactive story map created by the Pacific Sea Garden Collective reawakens traditional ways of harvesting food from the sea from Panama to Australia to the Pacific Northwest.
Panama
Archaeology Anthropology Marine Biology Natural History Ecology Biodiversity Life in Deep Time Origins of Species and Societies Naos
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gardens
Orchid bees show remarkable
resistance to major climate events
The longest continuous study of euglossines in the tropics found relatively stable populations of these wild bees over four decades.
Panama
Text by Leila Nilipour
Video by Ana Endara
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David RoubikCounting
bees
Smithsonian scientists reduce uncertainty in forest carbon storage calculations
Helene Muller-Landau, staff scientist, was invited to write an authoritative review about carbon storage in forests. Her team combed through existing studies and came up with some novel conclusions of their own.
Global Change Ecosystem Services Forest Ecology Long-term monitoring Sustaining a Biodiverse Planet Gamboa
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Helene Muller-LandauReducing
uncertainty
Peruvian Amazonian shaman rose to power on promises of liberation and immortality
Anthropologist Fernando Santos-Granero has pieced together the story of a change agent whose life spanned an important period in South American history in his book, Slavery and Utopia, now available in English and Spanish.
Peruvian Amazon
Anthropology Exploration Sociology Origins of Species and Societies Earl S. Tupper
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Fernando Santos-GraneroSlavery
and Utopia
The value of science
during times of crisis
Panama
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Kristin Saltonstall
Microbes may fight the epidemic driving some frog species to extinction
A compound produced by Panamanian frog skin bacteria could help resist fungal infections in amphibians and humans worldwide
Gamboa
Herpetology Microbial Ecology Disease Ecology
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Roberto IbañezAmphibian
pharmaceuticals
The Evolution of Obesity
The epidemic of obesity-related diseases such as heart disease and type-2 diabetes may be a result of an advantageous process gone awry as the body stores excess energy as visceral adipose tissue, fat surrounding the internal organs in the abdomen.
Panama
Animal Behavior Developmental Biology Anthropology Zoology Origins of Species and Societies Earl S. Tupper
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Mary Jane West-Eberhard
