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Continental Crash Date Debate

Continental Crash Date Debate

January 30, 2012

The Isthmus of Panama joined North and South America and separated the Atlantic from the Pacific. It also radically altered the world’s climate and set the scene for a great interchange of plants and animals...

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A New and Improved Magic Web

A New and Improved Magic Web

January 30, 2012

A new and improved version far outshines the 2002 edition....

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Celebrate Biodiversity at School

Celebrate Biodiversity at School

January 30, 2012

Enhanced teacher training is key to this pilot program designed to teach children in Phoenix and Panamá more about biodiversity and cultural awareness...

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Rachel Page Heads Animal Care Committee

Rachel Page Heads Animal Care Committee

January 30, 2012

Director Eldredge Bermingham named Staff Scientist Rachel Page as the new head of STRI’s IACUC...

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Reforestation: how to measure success?

Reforestation: how to measure success?

January 30, 2012

Michiel Van Breugel, STRI post-doctoral fellow, says that the Agua Salud Project’s 700 hectares of forest in the Panama Canal watershed are unmatched anywhere in the tropics...

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Ancient Popcorn Discovered in Peru

Ancient Popcorn Discovered in Peru

January 23, 2012

Peruvians ate popcorn 2,000 years earlier than previously reported, according to an article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences coauthored by Dolores Piperno...

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Rainforest Connection Live!

Rainforest Connection Live!

January 23, 2012

The Rainforest Connection is celebrating its 10th anniversary of bringing researchers and educators together via webconferencing technology into classrooms around the world...

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Jeffrey B. Graham (1941-2011)

Jeffrey B. Graham (1941-2011)

January 23, 2012

Jeffrey B. Graham, a research physiologist at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego, died of cancer at his home in San Diego, Calif., on Dec. 8, 2011...

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New ANAM Guard Post in Coiba National Park

New ANAM Guard Post in Coiba National Park

January 23, 2012

On Jan. 13, the Smithsonian, ANAM and Conservation International inaugurated a new guard post on Isla Canal de Afuera, in the northeast sector of Coiba National Park...

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A Deep Marine Connection

A Deep Marine Connection

January 23, 2012

STRI fellow Carlos De Gracia, funded by Panama’s SENACYT, catches deep-sea and open ocean fish in unusual places: in fossil-bearing outcrops in the Caribbean tidal zone...

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