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...
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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...
TEAK VS TERMINALIA
April 30, 2013Deep in the Panama Canal watershed are three stands of trees. One is a teak plantation where STRI scientist Jeff Hall is toiling to produce the best timber possible...
A CURE FOR COCOA?
April 22, 2013Frustrated farmers may need look no further than the cocoa tree itself for a treatment. Luis and colleagues at STRI discovered that some endophytes...
What do fiddler crabs see?
April 15, 2013Martin How lifts a male fiddler crab from a mudflat at the Pacific entrance to the Panama Canal and points at its periscope eyes...
WHAT DOES DANGER LOOK LIKE?
April 08, 2013Judging from the oscillating wail of insect sounds penetrating the dark tropical forest, there are plenty of crickets and katydids out there...
Gone fishin'...
for scraps, and parasites!
April 01, 2013
McGill University student Victor Frankel studies how biological invasions drive the transmission of emerging parasites in the Panama Canal...
Touch or smell - what triggers sex change in sea snails?
March 25, 2013Before a pair of slipper limpet sea snails can get in the mood to reproduce, one of them has to change sex...
Cat-Scan for trees?
March 18, 2013On Barro Colorado Island, it's nearing the end of the dry season. As falling leaves drift to the ground, Mariam Trejos tips up her laptop to see a multicolored cross-section of the huge tree...
In a changing environment, some species fare better
March 11, 2013Picking apart how local and global offenders conspire to wreck reefs is not easy...