Profile: Donald Winsdor
What is merdigery?
September 28, 2012
Some beetles have a rather inventive, if unsavory, way of fending off predators.
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Tracking nutrient blasts
How do natural and human-discharged nutrient pulses impact tropical marine ecosystems?
March 14, 2018
Nutrient upwelling season in the Bay of Panama and water quality tests from 20 previously unmonitored rivers provide a Panamanian researcher with clues about how nutrient addition impacts coastal ecosystems.
Interesting Chemistry
Innovation by ice cream bean relatives explains biodiversity
March 14, 2019
The back and forth relationship between insects and their food plants may drive tropical biodiversity evolution according to work on Barro Colorado Island’s 50 hectare plot.
Pheromone talk
The queen gets to keep her daughter
May 23, 2019
Why did some bee species become social, while the majority have remained solitary? On Barro Colorado Island, a bee that adopts both strategies interchangeably, may unlock the evolutionary origins of sociality in insects
Pirates to plovers
A photographic guide to the wildlife of Panama’s old city
August 13, 2019
As Panama City celebrates it’s 500th birthday, STRI’s Steven Paton explores the biodiversity of Panama Viejo, an important historical and archaeological site
Hot and breathless
Learning to live without oxygen
September 05, 2019
In Bocas del Toro’s Caribbean waters in Panama, a STRI postdoctoral fellow asks how marine life responds to low oxygen levels and higher temperatures in the ocean
Exploring the unwanted
The positive side of fouling communities
September 26, 2019
Encrusting organisms may be disliked by most people, but they’re helping explore marine conservation and biodiversity concerns
Integration
Are rivers guilty?
November 15, 2019
A unique project, integrating river and oceanic data, aims to shed light onto the drivers of marine hypoxia
Fluctuations
Constant change drives local ecosystems
November 27, 2019
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
Too Close
Humpback whales may risk collision with vessels in the Magellan Strait
May 26, 2020
By tagging and tracking migrating humpback whales that feed in the Magellan Strait in Chile, the scientists were able to provide policy recommendations to reduce the risk of collisions
