Generous nature
Weighing costs and benefits of motivating landowners to reforest the Panama Canal Watershed
January 18, 2019
How far should we go when paying for natural services? Economic sciences can help us calculate the exact amount
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Environmental services
Agua Salud helps inform smart land management decisions through science
February 20, 2019
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
Our colorful world
Words, Birds, and Watercolor: an Interview with Charlotte Steeves
February 27, 2019
Charlotte Steeves studies the relationship between land use and seasonal river stream flow at STRI as part of the Agua Salud project. She has been a STRI intern since January 2018. However, her involvement with Panama goes back much further: In some ways it seems like she’s been preparing for this adventure for her whole life.
Trapped in time
Unearthing the prehistoric plant species of Panama
July 04, 2019
Little is known about the early flora of the isthmus. The first Panamanian paleobotanist aims to change this
Forest of Giants
What do we know about Darien's forests?
April 15, 2020
A scientific mission in the Panamanian jungle found some of the largest trees in the country
Locked up
Unraveling sustainable forest management while in confinement
May 27, 2020
Edwin H. García started as a Bachelor student in Agua Salud 8 years ago. Now he leads a research project that will allow for estimating the value of native trees for reforestation and restoration
The great flood
Animated maps of sea level rise: the Isthmus of Panama during the last 26,000 years
September 11, 2020
These maps dramatically illustrate how rising sea levels completely altered the shape of Panama’s coastline, creating islands and submerging large areas of land.
Hungry megaherbivores
How do Giraffes and Elephants alter the african savanna landscape?
September 15, 2020
Through their foraging behavior across the diverse topography of the African savanna, megaherbivores may be unknowingly influencing the growth and survival of vegetation on valleys and plateaus, while preserving steep slopes as habitat refugia.
One-two Punch
Sea urchins are stuck belly up in low-oxygen hot water
December 11, 2020
As oceans warm and become more acidic and oxygen-poor, Smithsonian researchers asked how marine life on a Caribbean coral reef copes with changing conditions.
Reducing uncertainty
Smithsonian scientists reduce uncertainty in forest carbon storage calculations
January 11, 2021
Helene Muller-Landau, staff scientist, was invited to write an authoritative review about carbon storage in forests. Her team combed through existing studies and came up with some novel conclusions of their own.
