Generous nature
Weighing costs and benefits of motivating landowners to reforest the Panama Canal Watershed
Enero 18, 2019
How far should we go when paying for natural services? Economic sciences can help us calculate the exact amount
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Environmental services
Agua Salud helps inform smart land management decisions through science
Febrero 20, 2019
Through the long-term study of different landscapes in the Panama Canal Watershed, and the environmental services they offer, the Agua Salud project aims to use its data to improve human welfare and ensure a more sustainable future throughout the tropics
Forest of Giants
What do we know about Darien's forests?
Abril 15, 2020
A scientific mission in the Panamanian jungle found some of the largest trees in the country
Locked up
Unraveling sustainable forest management while in confinement
Mayo 27, 2020
Edwin H. García started as a Bachelor student in Agua Salud 8 years ago. Now he leads a research project that will allow for estimating the value of native trees for reforestation and restoration
More to discover
New bird checklists from Jicarón and Jicarita Islands in Coiba National Park, Panama
Julio 01, 2020
A trip to Jicarón Island during the Coiba Bioblitz led to a published bird checklist.
Expedition
Two decades among the birds of Panama
Agosto 05, 2020
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.
Uplift
Fossil trees on Peru’s Central Andean Plateau tell a tale of dramatic environmental change
Agosto 28, 2020
As the Earth’s surface transforms, entire ecosystems come and go. The anatomy of fossil plants growing in the Andean Altiplano region 10 million years ago calls current paleoclimate models into question, suggesting that the area was more humid than models predict.
Slavery and Utopia
Peruvian Amazonian shaman rose to power on promises of liberation and immortality
Septiembre 14, 2020
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.
Stars in the sea
How the ability to clone itself may empower a mystery globetrotter
Octubre 09, 2020
It always pays to think outside of the box. Rachel Collin decided to look further afield to find the adult form that matched a larvae from a plankton sample in Panama and was surprised by the result.
Sundance for Science
New nature documentary follows Smithsonian scientists underwater
Octubre 19, 2020
Deep reefs may represent one of the most diverse, underexplored ecosystems on the planet.
