An expedition to the depths of the ocean
June 07, 2022
Two weeks exploring the Cordillera de Coiba revealed clues about this unknown region.
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STRI special events, May 2022
May 30, 2022
New Economy Forum, Unsung Heroes award, Kaoru Kitajima honored, World of Pollinators, painting workshop at Punta Culebra
Solving mysteries of Panamanian fauna with camera traps
May 24, 2022
Traditionally, we highlight the richness of the fauna that lives in the forests of Panama. However, the complex Panamanian forests also hide a diversity in the behavior of this fauna. Considering how small Panama is, for these same species, the behavior can vary according to its environment. In this talk we will talk about how camera traps provide us with pieces of the puzzle of the ecology...
How can humans and jaguars coexist?
May 19, 2022
From tracking the movements of large felines across the continent to helping rural communities reap the benefits of protecting biodiversity, director of Yaguará Panamá Foundation Ricardo Moreno turned his childhood dream into a mission.
Unique agates on a Panamanian island reveal submarine volcanic activity
May 05, 2022
Giant agates found in an island on the Pacific coast of Panama prompted a study on the area’s geology to answer the question of how the Isthmus evolved and became a bridge between two continents.
Secretary Lonnie Bunch visits “The farthest rock from the sun of the Smithsonian”
April 29, 2022
The Secretary visited facilites in Panama and Colon and got to see first-hand the important science being done at STRI.
New interactive map of indigenous fishing practices around the pacific rim
April 29, 2022
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.
“Python of the Sea” study highlights marine biodiversity underestimates
April 28, 2022
Most ocean life remains to be discovered. Because fish and many other animals that live in the ocean often have larvae or other, microscopic life stages that drift freely in ocean water, counting species by genetic barcoding of plankton samples adds to counts of species recorded as adults and is a highly efficient way to understand what lives in the ocean and how biodiversity changes as we...
What the leaves tell us: stories of extinction and the origins of tropical forests
April 26, 2022
Plant leaves show us the species that exist in a forest, and the ecological conditions in which they live. These attributes can also be observed in fossil leaves, which allows us to reconstruct forests that existed millions of years ago and understand how they have changed over time. In this talk we will talk about how fossil leaves tell us about the effect of a mass extinction 66 million...
The first scientific expedition to Panama’s unexplored Cordillera de Coiba sets sail
April 26, 2022
Scientists, students and communicators from Panama, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador and Spain will spend twelve days on the high seas exploring the biodiversity of Panama’s Cordillera de Coiba seamounts.
