Facility
Earl S. Tupper
A global center
for tropical science
A global center
for tropical science
A cutting-edge molecular lab
and launching point to the
Eastern Tropical Pacific
A tropical research community
on the edge of the Panama Canal
Studying the forest
from the top down
The Winter lab studies how tropical plants, particularly trees, function and interact with their environment. We explore plant function in the field and under controlled conditions, at the whole organism level and at the level of individual organs, combining physiological, biochemical and...
Research in my lab examines the long and complex history of peoples and cultures in the Americas, and how these ancient societies developed both by changing, and being transformed by, their surrounding environment. My lab uses zooarchaeology, or the identification of animal bones, shells, and...
Exploring the tropical peoples
and ecosystems of the past
Lower atmospheric carbon and cooler temperatures may have contributed to the domestication of corn, a new study shows.
To better explain how deer populations have declined throughout tropical America, one researcher delves into a collection of 2,500 deer bones at the Smithsonian archaeology lab in Panama.
Panama’s infamous canal grass rises from the ashes of fire much faster than trees, complicating reforestation efforts.