STRI News, November 27, 2015

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Common Vampire Bat, Desmodus rotundus, running on the ground Photo by Uwe Schmidt. Vampiro común, Desmodus rotundus, corriendo en el suelo. Foto por Uwe Schmidt.

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SEMINARS TUPPER SEMINAR Tues., Dic. 1, 4pm Jamie Voyles University of Nevada, Reno Tupper Auditorium How does it end? Shifts in the infectious disease chytridiomycosis and the fate of frogs TUPPER PUBLIC TALK Wed., Dec. 2, 6pm Jorge Ventocilla Asociado en comunicación, STRI Tupper Auditorium Animales y plantas de la Ciudad de Panamá: Una guía para 80 especies BAMBI SEMINAR Thur., Dec. 3, 7:15pm Egbert Leigh STRI Barro Colorado Island Could natural selection favor the abilities needed to know truly, to do mathematics, and to deduce objective moral truths?

PUBLIC PROGRAMS / PROGRAMAS PÚBLICOS VISIT US / VISÍTENOS Barro Colorado / Isla Barro Colorado Contact / Contacto: 212-8951 Bocas del Toro Research Station / Estación de Investigación de Bocas del Toro Contact / Contacto: 212-8594 Galeta Point Marine Laboratory / Laboratorio Marino de Punta Galeta Contact / Contacto: 212-8191 Punta Culebra Nature Center / Centro Natural de Punta Culebra Contact / Contacto: 212-8793


ARRIVALS Evan Gora University of Louisville Ecology of Lightning in Tropical Forests Barro Colorado Island Allison Byrne University of California – Berkeley Corinne Zawacki University of Pittsburgh Jamie Voyles, Gonçalo Rosa, John Morgan and Gabriela Rios-Sotelo University of Nevada, Reno Rays of hope: Identifying factors mediating the survival of Panamanian Atelopus populations Tupper Jeff Jurgens Biological invasions and interactions between hosts and their parasites in Panama Naos Marine Lab and Galeta Station

DEPARTURES Matthew Larsen To Seattle, Washington To meet with STRI Donors

Carlos Jaramillo To Seattle WA For meetings with donors to talk about future collaborations

Ira Rubinoff To Washington For meetings at SI

Andrew Altieri To the Bocas Research Station To monitor and establish field experiments at field sites

Ross Robertson To Santa Marta, Colombia To present a talk at an ichthyology course

Sharon Ryan To Washington DC For the Workshop: Conservation Commons

Helene Muller-Landau To Princeton, NJ and Washington, DC For developmental training assignments Rachel Page To Austin, TX To meet with colleagues, discuss progress on current NSF grant Ricardo Moreno To Bogota Colombia To attend the Mastozoology Congress Jefferson Hall To Denver, CO For a meeting with NSF Sponsor for the Agua Salud project Catherine Potvin To the Alto Bayano Region For a visit with 4 representatives of the Margaret Cargill Foundation Owen Mcmillan To Peru To collect butterflies for my research into speciation in Heliconius butterflies

GET IN TOUCH! WE’D LOVE TO KNOW WHAT YOU THINK:

Raineldo Urriola, Anabelle Arroyo and Vanessa Bernal To Fortuna, Chiriqui For a site visit for inspection and bring equipment Federico Davis and Mario Bailon To Colon (Agua Salud) To measure transects on secondary forest Aaron O’dea, Brigida De Gracia and Felix Rodriguez To the Dominican Republic To collect fossil shark dermal denticles from Dominican Republic Sean Mattson To the Dominican Republic For the multimedia coverage of O’Dea Lab paleoecology projects

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