Tupper leminar
Tuesday, September 19, noon seminar speaker will be Truman Young. Universiry of California at Davis.
The Kenya Long-Term Excloaure Experiment (KLEE): five yean of herbivore manipulations in a semi-arid rangeland
Bambi leminan
Monday, September 18, Bambi uminu spnker will be Ed Tanner, University of Cambridge
Acclimation oCsbrub.
(plyeboma) to gap and undcntory environmcnta
Wmnesday, Sepu~mbcr 20, Bambi seminar speaker will be Truman Young, Uruvers.ity of California at Davis
The death of conservation biology: vi.ionl of"
restoration ecologist
Thunday, September 21, Bambi seminar speaker will be Jonathan llill, Southern
lllinois University Pudali: ceremonial
exchange and .oci.t ecology in the Upper Rio Negro region ofVcnezut:la
Naolleminar
Wednesday. September 20, Naas seminar speaker will be KMna.I I brshim, University or East Anglil, UK
Population genetic. oftbe liIwanning insect pc_til ohbe tropics
The .emina.r will be presented at the Nacs Conference Room, building 1914. Visitors should entu through the door facing the Surfside building.
TropiC21 Research Institutc, Panama www.stri.ow 15,2000
rt>I"m~>nt with Ecoforest
Du-cClor Ira RlIbmoff. STRI al1(l F.cofore~t
prcsidcm Fernando Gon:..ale:.. d~ Sola. slglIC"d an agreement of eollaborauon lit STRl.
rrn.lll~. St'ptcmber 151. I::i::ofon."slls a local '-JliU th:u IS developing a rc(o«'siation lind COIlSCrn[1011 progr.tm (or thc Panama Canal
\,\'alenhed. Th.rough IhlS agreement. STRI
and u:oforcst will develop re:.carch and momlOnng programs of nam'c tr~ species In
thc wlitershed area /\Iso in thc pholo ale CTFS director Richard CondJ\ and Elena Lombardo, aU\"Isor (or t.'!(temal a((lUts.
[r.t Rubilloff. director de STRI, \. h:rnando (;ol1z~1cz de !'ala, prcs,dcnle de EcoforCSI. firl11aron un convcnio de cobbol"llclon cI \"Icr!lC~ Ire) dc sqll,cmhrc en STR I F.cnfnrc~1 cs una orgamzacion no gubem!l.Inental que eSln lIe\'ando a cabo un progrnl1111 de rcforestaclon
r
conservacion dl.sellado para Illo Cuenca del Canal de Panama .. \ trA\'CS dc CSlC com·cmf). STR[r
Ecnfme~r Uevar:in ~ cabo progr~masde mvesugaclon y monlloreo de especn::s !lall\'as en el area de la cuenca F.n la foto aparccell lamb.en
Rlch~rd Comht, dm:ctor ,lei CrFS }" 1·:lclllI I,()mb~rdo, a~emr~ de aSUI110S exlcmos.
STRI firma c onvenio con Ecoforest
Fundaci6n Smithsonian has new executive director
Recently. ,\nna l.lsa ~unmons Jl Po(rn~. \\"";I~ appolnled executive dll"ector for Fundacion Smnh~oman de Pam\lml. and Started \\.'orkltlg on Monday. :-'cpll'l1lber 4. al 1 upper. #W7 (cxt.
8054). t\nna 1..l5a bnng~ 241 rc~rs of e'llCncnce III Ihe pn\'alc sector and has a b~chd()r';, deKTl't.· III \d"wlI:.lr,HlolI and j 'mance (rom Stel:>un L,u\oeNIt\. j'lu[]da. \X e welcuille I,er tC)
the Smlthsoman f~mih'.
Anna J ,;sa SlImn()!ls de Porras .. rue sdccClonad~ reClcnlcmenee para neurar 1:1 p()~iciim de dlrc:clOnt C'jI'CUllVlI de la Flltlcl;-tcion SnmhSOlUall .. unpc..·zu a tr.lbalar d IUllcs .. de ~cpucmbre. en Tupper, oficlila #607 (exi. 805"'). "nn~ 1.lsa Ilene lIna ucenClalurn en adnumstraclon, finanZIlS de la UIlI\'ersidad dc Stetson de Ronda
r
20 an05 de expcnenClli en d seclor pm'ado.l..t· damns un~ cordl~1 blell\'l"nJd~ a b famtltll SnUthsontan.
Arrival\
T ruIIl:m Young, mvited spellker from the Univcnity of California at Davil, Sep 1
s..
24,to visit STRl and present
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!Jo,""h.n
O. Hill, in . . ",spca.k~ from Southc.m lllmois Univeuity, Sep 19·28, to give seminar t.nd visil with collcague5.
Ben Warren, predoctoral fellow from Univcnity of East Anglia, U.K, Sep 20 - Apr 4, to work on the histociaJ biogeognphy and evolution of birds on the Jndian ocean islands, at NICS.
More arrivall
Mark and Diane Litder. Buret Brookl, and Conllg,nc~
Gasque, SI, Sc:p 20 • Oct 4~ to study the bottom-up versus top-down controls of lagoonu coral rttf habitats, on
Boas dd Toro.
Cynuull Kicklighter, shorl-tenn reUow from Skidway Institute of Oceanognphy, Sep 23 -Dec 23, to study the ck:fmsJ.\'c Slr2tegies in marine worms, on
BOCllS del Toro.
Departure!
Ebg<rt G.
Lcigh.J' . •
s.p 2()-Oct 28, [0 Washington, D.C., to consult with colleagues :and work at SI.
New baby girl
Congratulations
to AdrianaBilgny
andCarlos
Espinosa for the birth of their w.ughtc:r Maria Crisrin2, on Thursday.September 14, III I 1:20am. Maria
Cristina weighed 5. 1 21.b and
measured 47an. Early this week Adriana andCarlos
sent flowtts to their friends at SIR.! thanking for ababy
shower andgifts.
Nuestnls fdicitaciones a Adriana
Bilgn.y y
a Carlos Espinosa. por d nacimiento de au mja Marla Criltina, cI juevel 14 de septiembre alas 11 :2Om...
M:uia Crisbna
pesO
5.121b Y midi647 em. A principias deelt2 S~2na Adriana y Cwo.
mandaron un r.amo de fiorcs a sus amigoa en
SHU.
en agradecimienlo pore1
"baby shower" y los regalos.from vilitor! at ITRI web page
"I love the Canopy Crane Caml Makes me
feel like I am
birding at Metro Park. Me encanta visitar estll. pigina de \'(/eb~pues me da un
ai.re
nostalgia cuando veo 101 recientes proyectOI y noticias del bosque tropical panameno. Gracias."up 'tna
farc\\"cU ccremony 10 ont' of the 11.51 wooden construcuons on nC!, which is to be demolished. 'nle history and details around lhis building will be pubLtshcd !It next Filii MO()n, BCI'I mOlllhlr Dc-wslelter. (photo: Chnsu:m Ziegler)
Los residenles cle de Barro Colorlldo se \'isticron de gala y se rrunicron en la Casa Smith, en una cercmonia de despcdidll a unll de las cOllSlnIcciones de maden mis llntiguas de BCI que esta en proceso de demoLtciOn. La. hls[Ona de esra casa y sus detlllllcs
sera
publicada en el proximo n(lmero de U IfI(J UtI/a.el boletin mensual de Sarro Colorado.
Bocas del T oro Research Station New fax 757-9896
Our oceans: future of mankind
.\NAM. the Panamnnmn EnVironmental \ulhon[\', uwnes Ihe STRJ communit), 10 a dt!an-lip of c.:u~st!l md bcac"hes on Slmday. September 17, 51arun~ 7am al Ih(' RUIll~ of Old Panama. RSVP af tds. 212-2573. 262-2030 0 aI262-3989.
Nuestros oceanos: futuro de la humanidad
La Autondad Nacium!.1 del AmbtclHc. Region Metropolitan:.
J]l\'ita a la comunidad de S'l1U II una gran Itmplcza de playas y costas el domtngo 17 de sepnembre en las a~ de Panamll
\"ielo. dcscle la~ iam. ConflnTIl' ';us a~lstl1loa II los tdefones
212-2573,262-2050 0 aI262-3989.
Nota luctuosa
Alcidc5 DomingucT-. <luicn trabalO para STRJ en b Isla de Barro Colorado de 1967-1986. mucto d II dc scpriembre en la ciudad de ))an:lJmi. Nuesuo JXsanlt' 1 sus falmltares.
New publicatiom
Budd, Ill1n F.,johnson, Kenneth G., Sternann, Thomas A. and Tompkins, Bridget H. 1999. "Pliocene to Pleistocene reef com assemblages in the Limoo Group of Costa Rica." BlliktilU
of
Al1mieo" Palu"I0Wo 357:11
9-158.
Dalling,jlJDe& W., Lovelock., G.therine
E.
and Hubbell, Stephen P. 1999. "Growth responses of seedlings of two neotropical pioneer species to simulated focat gapeO\·ironments." JO'''7IoI of Tropi.-al
E.ro/Qo
15(6), 821-839.Dyer,
1...« A., Letourneau,~borah K, \V11I.iams, Wyat and Dodson,
Craig. 1999. "A
commensalism between Piper mfllliMlNm jacq. (piperaceae) aod a coccinellid beetle at Barro Colorado Island, Panama." jOllT'llaJ ofT rupical E"'I'O 15(6), 841-846.Horvitz, Carol C., Da Silvc:tta Lobo, Leonel and Stenberg.
O'Reilly. 1999 ... uc daring of tree
falls
on Bacro Colorado bland (panama): a new method to study tropical rain forest gAp dynamics." JOMnwlof
T """,I Em~ 15(6), 123-135.
perez, Rolando, Condit, Richard and Loo de Lao, Suzanne. 2000. "Distribution and dynamici of a ncotropica1 ant PorrJj»lfl1TJ cidttllu within the Barro Colondo bland Forest Dynamics Plot." lIIride CIFS Summer 2000: 3, 10.
Vcnncij, GecratJ. and Dudley, Robert. 2000. ''Why are there 50 few evolutionary transitions between aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems?" Bioll§mI JOlinIOl
