Coibita Island, part of a World Heritage Site in Panama’s Pacific, is poised to become a leading research site for tropical marine biology.
Whale tracking research contributes to maritime safety and cetacean protection in Costa Rica and the Pacific
The Guna, Emberá and cattle-ranching communities of eastern Panama share the same threatened landscape but have been divided for generations over territorial disputes. A series of filmmaking workshops and film festivals have brought some members of the community together in ways not previously considered possible.
Scientists named new blood-red species of octocoral in honor of philanthropist Ray Dalio.
For these four women, the Smithsonian Institute’s internship program represented an opportunity to explore their research questions in the field
The diverse community of students working in the Panamanian tropics learn from each other during STRI’s two-day fellowship symposium.
At STRI, Jim Porter began the long-term ecological research that later became an important component of the winning documentary, Chasing Coral
Study Sheds New Light on Fundamental
Question in Evolutionary Biology
The Smithsonian’s first marine lab on Panama’s Caribbean coast invites visitors and researchers to experience the diversity of marine ecosystems within a protected space.
These ghostly larvae float freely in seawater, while their parents live on the sea floor and usually go undetected. Genetic studies of larvae provide clues that there are more species to be discovered
