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Exploring the Lives of Ancient Panamanians. Seminar by Ashley Sharpe and Nicole Smith-Guzman

November 30, 2021

How did people survive in the tropics, hundreds and even thousands of years ago? Where did they live, and what did they eat? What diseases did they encounter? New methods allow archaeologists to reconstruct the individual lives of people in more detail than ever before. Listen to Smithsonian archaeologists Ashley Sharpe and Nicole Smith-Guzmán examine the lives and histories of three very...

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Remembering George R. Angehr (1951-2021)

November 26, 2021

STRI mourns the loss of natural historian and colleague, George Angehr.

Aquatic microbes

Secondary forests restore fresh water sources in degraded landscapes

November 11, 2021

Analyses of microbial communities in streams across different land use types suggests that passive reforestation rapidly restores water quality in lowland tropical watersheds.

Ocean trotters

Ancestors of whale sharks in Panama may come from distant waters

November 01, 2021

Genetic population connectivity study of the endangered whale shark in Pacific Panama provides important data for conservation efforts.

Special events October 2021

October 2021: O’Dea Lab visit, Richard Cooke honored, OIT heroes

October 29, 2021

Counting bees

Orchid bees show remarkable resistance to major climate events

October 27, 2021

The longest continuous study of euglossines in the tropics found relatively stable populations of these wild bees over four decades.

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Recovery of the Juan Diaz mangroves

October 22, 2021

Over the last 50 years, since 1972, Panama has lost almost 50% of its mangroves primarily due to urban expansion and the conversion of mangroves into agricultural land.

Samuel Robles

Las rutas caribeñas de la cumbia panameña

October 22, 2021

The Panamanian cumbia is the result of a complex process of cultural dialogue that was unified in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. In this webinar, the Panamanian composer and musicologist Samuel Robles, a researcher at the Centro de Investigaciones Históricas, Antropológicas y Culturales AIP (Historical, Anthropological and Cultural Research Center CIHAC AIP), examines the various...

Crabosaur

Unique dinosaur-era fossil bridges a gap in the evolution of crabs

October 21, 2021

The oldest and most complete fossil crab ever discovered suggests that these animals ventured onto land at least 25 to 50 million years earlier than previously thought

STRI-Education USA

Panama and the United States collaborate for education and science development

October 05, 2021

This webinar talk highlighted the joint projects that promote the development of cutting-edge research and served as a platform to communicate scholarship opportunities available for Panamanians at STRI and at the Embassy

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