Agua Salud receives award, Smithsonian Secretary’s Distinguished Research Fellowship given to STRI fellow, Adalberto Gomez named Expert of the Year by BioMuseo, US Embassy Chargé d’Affaires visits STRI, Q?Rioso and Q?Bus updates, Summer Camp at Culebra and Paleobiology Symposium in Bologna.
Fossil corals show what reefs were like before human impact and reveal a modern “bright spot” reef with apparent long-term resilience to deterioration caused by humans.
Kids explore everything from fossils to climate change when the Smithsonian’s Q?Bus arrives. Since 2018, the Q?Bus team has engaged more than 10,000 kids in 3rd to 10th grade classrooms in hands-on tropical biology.
Only about 1% of marine plastic debris is recovered at the ocean’s surface, meaning the other 99% likely either sinks or is consumed by marine organisms
What started as a student summer job, became Anibal Velarde’s life’s work. Over fifty years later, he is still at the Smithsonian
Advisory Board Visit, In Honor of Tony Coates, Rachel Page’s Award, Galeta Guides at Biomuseo and Panama Viejo.
The nomadic nature of these marine turtles allows them to adapt to dynamic environmental factors, but presents a conservation challenge that STRI researchers hope to resolve
The discerning eye of staff scientist, Annette Aiello, observed the fearless behavior of an iridescent insect resembling a bird dropping containing embedded, blue seeds.
In six months, two library interns classified more than 14,000 STRI scientific articles by location.
