Worth a thousand words
Amy Koehler transforms bat science into bat art
Octubre 30, 2020
Reshaping her interest in science into a career in art, Amy Koehler does what she loves best in the Bat Lab
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Micropaleontology
Modern computational tools may open a new era for fossil pollen research
Noviembre 12, 2020
By integrating machine-learning technology with high-resolution imaging, scientists are improving the taxonomic resolution of fossil pollen identifications and greatly enhancing the use of pollen data in ecological and evolutionary research.
Masked singers
First Sightings of Lek and courtship behavior in wrinkle-faced bats
Noviembre 18, 2020
Male Wrinkle-faced bats lower a flap of skin resembling a face mask when they are ready to mate according to a rare sighting of a lek of bats in Costa Rica.
Bat Hormones
Male bats with high testosterone levels have large forearm crusts when females are fertile
Diciembre 17, 2020
Male Fringe-Lipped bats smear a sticky, odorous substance on their forearms. When this was discovered, researchers guessed that it might play a role in mating. Post-doctoral fellow Mariana Muñoz-Romo has confirmed that the presence and size of the forearm "crust" is, indeed correlated with other reproductive traits.
Ricardo Moreno
Advances in scientific research and conservation of the jaguar in Panama
Enero 08, 2021
The seminar series via Zoom titled How did I get here? Scientific Stories is carried out thanks to the support of the Inter- American Development Bank (IDB). For the 6th seminar on January 2021, Smithsonian invited Ricardo Moreno, Director of the Yaguará Panama Foundation, STRI Associate Researcher and National Geographic Emerging Explorer with the talk entitled, Advances in scientific research and jaguar conservation in Panama.
Picture the Unseen
A community of scientists put microbial ecosystems back together again using anvi’o
Enero 14, 2021
Post-doc Jarrod Scott is an active contributor to anvi’o, a set of computational tools to visualize microbial communities.
Foster care
Baby vampire bat adopted by mom’s best friend
Febrero 09, 2021
The strong relationship formed between two female adult vampire bats may have motivated one of the bats to adopt the other’s baby.
Tropical Taxonomy
Like a cooking show with worms: Smithsonian videos teach Taxonomy of diverse Marine creatures
Abril 09, 2021
At the Smithsonian’s Bocas del Toro Research Station, in Panama, marine biologist Rachel Collin runs an educational program that recruits international experts to teach and create videos about how to collect, preserve and observe marine invertebrates, passing down their very specific knowledge to aspiring taxonomists.
Celebrate Earth Day 2021!
New bilingual videos feature tropical landscape management for a sustainable future
Abril 22, 2021
The Agua Salud project’s new videos, narrated in Spanish and English by Panamanian actress Hilary Hughes, share the results of tropical reforestation and landscape restoration research pioneered in Panama.
Agua Salud
A conversation about changing the future through better land management in the tropics
Abril 28, 2021
How can science help to restore deforested land, reduce the risk of flooding and combat climate change? Find out in a virtual chat with Jefferson Hall, director of STRI’s Agua Salud Project, Katherine Sinacore, post-doctoral fellow and Edwin Garcia, master’s degree student, moderated by STRI Interim Director, Oris Sanjur and Associate Director for Communications Linette Dutari.
