Service pins ceremony, Science Café, L’Oreal-UNESCO women in science prize, UNACHI visit to Naos laboratories, Gigante Course, and more
Service pins ceremony, Science Café, L’Oreal-UNESCO women in science prize, UNACHI visit to Naos laboratories, Gigante Course, and more
First Jaguar in Panama fitted with GPS transmitter
After years of catching jaguars only in camera-trap images, Ricardo Moreno, STRI research associate and National Geographic Emerging Explorer, and a team of 20 biologists and community members were able to catch a jaguar and fit it with a transmitter that will help researchers conserve these majestic cats in the wild.
Constant change drives local ecosystems
A MarineGEO project with sites in Panama aims to understand the influence of coastal biology on the highly variable oceanic pH levels of near-shore ecosystems
Are rivers guilty?
A unique project, integrating river and oceanic data, aims to shed light onto the drivers of marine hypoxia
Butterflies take different paths to arrive at the same color pattern
Unrelated butterflies may have the same wing patterns. These patterns warn off predators and help suitors find the right mate. But if wing patterns in each species evolved the same way, knocking out an important gene should have the same effect in both. Carolina Concha and her team discovered that knocking out the WntA gene results in different effects in co-mimics, so the two species evolved...
Venomous snake captures frog-eating bat
Hubert Szczygieł recently arrived at STRI in Panama and is already becoming one of Gamboa’s most awesome natural historians.
Vampire bat bonding persists from the lab to the wild
Bats moved from a captive colony back to a tree stayed with their friends.
Journalists congress, Long Ago receives scientific award, Jeff Hall talk at water security event and more
Farewell Bob Dressler, Long Ago receives scientific award, Jeff Hall talk at water security event, Archaeology talk in Veracruz
Are bats spying on their prey in the canopy?
Eavesdropping behavior in the canopy may answer questions about how acoustic interplay among animals has developed over millions of years in the forest
What makes a good (primate) leader?
Does a good leader have a better mental map of food in the forest? or is she simply driven by hunger?
