Agua Salud helps inform smart land management decisions through science
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
Where bright young minds meet
The diverse community of students working in the Panamanian tropics learn from each other during STRI’s two-day fellowship symposium.
14 reasons to leave the STRI bubble
For many visiting researchers, the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute becomes more than a job. It becomes your home and your primary social circle, so much that you sometime forget there is a world outside of work. But you would be remiss to skip out on all the opportunities beyond the STRI bubble. Here are 14 reasons to get out and go.
Panamanian students, scientists in the making
For these four women, the Smithsonian Institute’s internship program represented an opportunity to explore their research questions in the field
Can Evolution Rescue Lizards From Climate Change?
Some organisms adapt more quickly than others and may have a better chance to survive climate change. 2018 Tupper Fellow, Mike Logan, follows lizards as they adapt to islands.
Chocolate tasting, Jazz and Banjo Picking, Welcome Kirk Broders, Welcome Leila Nilipour, Smithsonian’s New Communication Chief visits STRI, Congrats Ummat and more
Chocolate tasting, Jazz and Banjo Picking, Welcome Kirk Broders, Welcome Leila Nilipour, Smithsonian’s New Communication Chief visits STRI, Congrats Ummat and more
Testosterone results in male-like behavior of female golden-collared manakins
How flexible are bird brains in response to hormones?
The Evolution of Obesity
The epidemic of obesity-related diseases such as heart disease and type-2 diabetes may be a result of an advantageous process gone awry as the body stores excess energy as visceral adipose tissue, fat surrounding the internal organs in the abdomen.
Weighing costs and benefits of motivating landowners to reforest the Panama Canal Watershed
How far should we go when paying for natural services? Economic sciences can help us calculate the exact amount
