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SEP 25, 2015 Panama’s environment minister Mirei Endara and President Juan Carlos Varela (from left) sign a decree that designated two new marine protected areas in Panamanian waters. STRI director Matt Larsen (R) was on hand for the event at STRI’s Punta Culebra Nature Center. La ministra de Ambiente de Panamá Mirei Endara y el Presidente Juan Carlos Varela (izq. a der.) firman un decreto que designa dos nuevas áreas protegidas marinas en aguas panameñas. El Director de STRI Matt Larsen (der.) estuvo presente en el evento en el Centro Natural Punta Culebra del Smithsonian.
PANAMA DESIGNATES TWO NEW MARINE PROTECTED AREAS Full story: www.stri.si.edu issuu.com/strinewspanama/
SEMINARS TUPPER SEMINAR Tue., Sep. 29, 4pm TBA Tupper Auditorium TBA BAMBI SEMINAR Thu. Oct. 1, 7:15pm Jacob Slusser and Saskia Santamaria ELTI’s Neotropics Training Program & STRI Barro Colorado Island Training for the Restoration and Conservation of Tropical Forests in Human Dominated Landscapes
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
Schoolchildren at Punta Culebra. Alumnos de escuela en Punta Culebra.
STRI’s manager for scientific affairs, Juan Maté (L), speaks at the ceremony where Panamanian President Juan Carlos Varela decreed two new marine protected areas. Juan Maté, gerente para asuntos y operaciones científicas del Smithsonian en Panamá (izq.), habla durante la ceremonia donde el Presidente de Panamá, Juan Carlos Varela decretó dos nuevas áreas marinas protegidas.
Panamanian President Juan Carlos Varela (C) takes a peek at Historia Natural del Istmo de Panamá, volume of natural history research edited by STRI’s Félix Rodríguez and staff scientist Aaron O’Dea. El Presidente de Panamá, Juan Carlos Varela (centro) da un vistazo al libro Historia Natural del Istmo de Panamá, editado por Félix Rodríguez y el científico Aaron O’Dea, ambos del Smithsonian en Panamá.
DEPARTURES
ARRIVALS Daiana Fontes Universidade Federal Fluminense Biostratigrafía del Neotrópico Center for Tropical Paleoecology Micah Dunthorn University of Kaiserslautern Analyzing rainforest soil ciliate diversity in Costa Rica, Panama and Ecuador using 454 pyrosequencing Barro Colorado Island Laura Southcott University of Chicago The Genomics of Speciation and Adaptation Gamboa
Neil Khosla University of California - Santa Cruz What are the consequences of shared enemies for the community structure of a tropical forest? Naos Marine Lab, Tupper and Barro Colorado Island Helmut Elsenbeer University of Potsdam Surficial processes in undisturbed forests and their controls Barro Colorado Island
Anabell Cornejo STRI Biological invasions and interactions between hosts and their parasites in Panama Naos Marine Lab, Galeta Station and Bocas del Toro
PUBLICATIONS Adelman, J. S., Moyers, S. C., Farine, D. R. and Hawley, D. M. 2015. Feeder use predicts both acquisition and transmission of a contagious pathogen in a North American songbird. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 282(1815) Castillo-Cardenas, M., Ramirez-Silva, J., Sanjur, O. I. and Toro-Perea, N. 2015. Evidence of incipient speciation in the Neotropical mangrove Pelliciera rhizophorae (Tetrameristaceae) as revealed by molecular, morphological, physiological and climatic characteristics. Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society, Corman, V. M., Baldwin, H. J., Fumie Tateno, A., Melim Zerbinati, R., Annan, A., Owusu, M., Nkrumah, Evans E., Maganga, Gael D., Oppong, S., Adu-Sarkodie, Y., Vallo, P., da Silva Filho, L. V. R. F., Leroy, E. M., Thiel, V., van der Hoek, L., Poon, L. L. M., Tschapka, M., Drosten, C. and Drexler, J. F. 2015. Evidence for an ancestral association of human coronavirus 229E with bats. Journal of Virology, Farine, D. R. and Strandburg-Peshkin, A.. 2015. Estimating uncertainty and reliability of social network data using Bayesian inference. Royal Society Open Science, 2(9)
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Matthew Larsen To Washington DC To attend the Science Executive Committee Raúl De León To Key West, Florida For the AAUS 2015 Diving for Science Symposium and DSO Central Diving Office meeting Egbert Leigh To Washington, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, New York and Texas. To consult with colleagues and on official business. Joseph Wright To Princeton, NJ For developmental training assignments Helene Muller-Landau Princeton, NJ & Santa Fe, NM For developmental training assignments Ross Robertson To Curacao To collect deep-reef fishes by submarine David Roubik To Washington DC To work on bee taxonomy project and museum curation in Entomology at the National Museum of Natural History
Dugas, M. B. and Richards-Zawacki, C. 2015. Conspicuous and cryptic morphs of a polytypic poison frog differ in reproductive output because of differences in tadpole performance, not parental effort. Ethology Ecology & Evolution, doi:10.1080/0394937 0.2015.1076527 Farine, D. R. and Strandburg-Peshkin, A. 2015. Estimating uncertainty and reliability of social network data using Bayesian inference. Royal Society Open Science, 2(9 Rehan, S. M., Tierney, S. M. and Wcislo, W. T. 2015. Evidence for social nesting in Neotropical ceratinine bees. Insectes Sociaux, 62(4): 465-469. doi:10.1007/s00040015-0425-3 Serna, Y., Velez, M. I. and Escobar, J. 2015. Microscopic organic matter particles in late Holocene riparian sediments near the Cauca River, Colombia. Journal of Paleolimnology, doi:10.1007/s10933-015-9855-1