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Q?Bus begins its journey around Panama
May 08, 2025
The brightly colored, science-packed van is bringing the Smithsonian experience to students around the country. First stop: the province of Herrera in western Panama.
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Let’s go Butterfly watching!
Butterflies of Pipeline Road: the new book that will make you fall for the butterflies of Panama
May 14, 2025
Butterflies of Pipeline Road is a concise and colorful field guide that brings together 120 of the most commonly observed butterflies from one of the most biodiverse trails in Panama: Pipeline Road.
Monkey-nappers!
A group of capuchin monkeys caught on-camera with abducted baby howler monkeys
May 19, 2025
Observations of Coiba’s tool-using immature capuchin monkeys show them carrying abducted infant howler monkeys. What is the reason for this behavior?
Facility
Bocas del Toro
Research Station
From deep time to real time
in western Caribbean ecosystems
Scientist
Stanley Heckadon-Moreno
During the 1970s and 1980s, I worked in community development, land-tenure and environmental projects with rural and indigenous communities in Panama and Central America. It helped me gain lots of hands-on experience and to work, within the government, towards the creation of Panama’s National...
Scientist
Owen McMillan
I am broadly interested in the genetics of adaptation and speciation. How do new species form? How does adaptive variation arise and spread? How is morphological variation created through development and modified by natural selection? Is evolution predictable?
The focus of my lab’s...
Scientist
Dolores Piperno
My research interests have mainly involved the archaeology and human ecology of the lowland American tropics together with the biogeographical and climatological history of the tropical biome. They have included study of phytoliths, starch grains and pollen at archeological sites in Panama,...
A marine invader
Species invasion throughPanama Canal? Pacific jingleshell found in Caribbean
January 24, 2014
Scientists first discovered the shiny sea critter in 2009. Genetic testing suggested it crossed the canal on more than one occasion.
More Fish Mean Healthier Reefs
Coral reefs grow faster and healthier when parrotfish are abundant
January 24, 2017
A new study points directly links healthy coral reefs to healthy populations of these brightly colored fishes.
Field Science In Classrooms
Galeta transformedinto teacher-trainingcampus
April 17, 2017
Smithsonian science in Panama reaches public school classrooms around the country thanks to hundreds of teachers who participate in training courses at STRI facilities.
