PANAMA‘s COASTAL CHANGE SCIENCE COLLECTED IN SINGLE PAPER
May 13, 2013MarineGEO fellow Katie Cramer compiles the history of human impact on Panama’s Caribbean in a new paper published in Bulletin of Marine Science...
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Nancy Knowlton Elected to the National Academy of Sciences
May 13, 2013Knowlton significantly advanced the field of coral reef biology, recognizing the complexity of the microbial associations forming the coral holobiont...
ANTS ON THEIR PANTS
May 13, 2013In the month of May, don’t be surprised to see students in Gamboa crouching in deep concentration before a mound of roadside earth...
SOFTWARE FOR STRATIGRAPHY
May 13, 2013John Ortiz, a geologist working with the team of Carlos Jaramillo at STRI, and his colleague Carlos Moreno, have developed a software program that revolutionizes the analysis of basic geologic data on stratigraphic sections...
WHAT'S NEW UNDER THE SUN?
May 06, 2013When well-trained taxonomists travel, often driven by their awareness of the need to protect species and habitats, it results in new knowledge...
NEW STABLE ISOTOPES FELLOW TO STUDY SHARKS AND TUNA
May 06, 2013Kirsteen MacKenzie, from the National Oceanography Centre, University of Southampton, UK, has been awarded the 2013 Smithsonian Institution Stable Isotope Fellowship...
TEACHER TRAINING COURSE AT GALETA POINT LABORATORY
May 06, 2013On Monday, April 15th, Galeta kicked-off its VI Teacher Training Course on Tropical Marine and Coastal Ecosystems, a joint effort of STRI, MEDUCA and the International Community Foundation...
BUTTERFLY GARDENERS
May 06, 2013Owen McMillan longs to explain the evolution of Nature’s beautiful diversity. Pulling aside a mesh curtain, he steps inside the enclosure and cups his hand over a butterfly...
KUDOS TO RICHARD COOKE AND NANCY KNOWLTON
April 30, 2013What do STRI archaeologist Richard Cooke and emeritus coral reef biologist Nancy Knowlton have in common with actors Robert De Niro and Sally Field and singer-songwriter Bruce Springsteen?...
PANAMA CANAL PALEONTOLOGY PROJECT MARKS MILESTONE WITH CANAL AUTHORITY
April 30, 2013Miniature camels and horses, rhinoceros and a giant beardog are among fossils unearthed in the first five years of the Panama Canal expansion...