news lune 9, 1997

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news ^lune

^{9, 1997}

Smithsonian Tropical Reseuch Institute· Apartado

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Balboa, PaIIlIlN • Tel 227-<nl2 • Fax 232-5978

TUPPER CENTER Tuesday, June 10, noon seminar speaker will be Conrad C. Labandeira, 51 National Museum of Nat- ural History

The Separate Devel- opment of Paleozoic and Post-Paleozoic Insect Herbivores

AbstrRCt It has been assumed that insect herbivory was minimally developed or absent during the Late Carboniferous and Per- mian, and that ecologi- cally significant herbivore

~ietary guilds and func- ,naJ feeding groups did not arise until consider- ably later. While this canonical view remains unchallenged, recent documentation from we- tland environments in equatorial coal-swamp floras from Euramerica demonstrate that a di- verse community of insect herbivores were partitioning plant tissues in major and essentially modem ways. These data, coupled with quantitative analysis of an Early Permian riparian flora, and the devastation of the end-Permian ex- tinctions, suggest that modem (Mesozoic and Cenozoic) insect clades -evolved the functional ._eding groups and broad dietary guilds that had existed during the Late Paleozoic.

On Thursday, May 22, a reception was held in honor

of

Honduras Pret;ident earlos Reyna at the Sf Arts a"d Industry Building, Washington, D.C. This eve"t was hosted by Sf Secretary Michael HeytMn, STRl director Ira Rubinoff and Honduras Ambassndor in Washingtml. 111 the photo, from left 10 right are 51 Provost

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Dennis O'Connor, Honduras Ambassndor Roberto Flores BermUdez and wife Laura de Flores Bernllldez, and President Reyua and First

l.iuI.y Bessie Watson de Reyna. (pho,,,: C(mrlesy ~ External Affairs)

SPECIAL TUPPER SEMINAR

Thu, Jun 12, noon seminar speaker will be John Daly, National Institutes of Health Thirty Years

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Discovering Arthropod Alkaloids in Frog Skin

BAMBI SEMINAR

• Mon, Jun 9, Bambi seminar speaker will be Eben Kirksey, New College Behavioral Relationships Between Ectatomma Colonies:

Thieves and Kidnappers or Traders and Vagrants?

• Thu, Jun 12, Bambi seminar speaker will be Robert Dudley, University of Texas TIle Diomecllanics of Insect Flight: Fonn, Function and Evolution

PEOPLE Arrivals

• Paula Eterovick, Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Jun 8-15, to observe the Tungara frog pro)c<:t, in Gamboa.

• Sarah Finkelstein, Princeton University, JlIn 9 - Aug 21, to work on a neotropical seedling census.

• Jonathan Howe, Princeton University, Jun 11 - Aug 11, to work on a quantitative analysis of 1

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June 9, 1 Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute • Apartodo 2072, Balboa,

Panama •

Tel 227~ • Fax 232-5978

the effects of Nematode virulence on host wasp mortality. at BO.

• 1\Jd<er Rarrar, Princeton University, Jun 13 -Jul31.

to study the host plant selection by leafcutting ants, on OCL

• A film crew from Unda Harrat Productions, Jun 2- 13, to document research projects at SfRI.

Departures

• Steve Paton. Jun 2-13, to Atlanta, for a computer fair, then to Colorado, to oonsu1t with colleagues.

NewH""""

Stanley Hockadon has been selected by the World Bank.

along with other 16 scholars and experts, to the Bank's new Consultative Croup on Social Development for Lat- in Amerka and the Caribbe- an. This panel will advise the World Bank on social issues.

FROM SECURITY

• Do to an increase in criminal activities in some areas of Darien, the Pana- manian authorities recom- mend that visitors avoid the area until these activities are investigated. For more information call the Security Office, ext. 2246

••• Debido al aumento de adividades crimitrales en

areas

de Darien, las autoridades panamefias recomiemum a visitantes mantenerse alejados del lugar hasta que estas adividades selin investigadas. Para mayor i"[ornwd6,,, favor lIamar a fa Ofidrla de Scguri- dad. ext. 2246.

On rue, May 13, the STRl's exhibit "Our

Reefs:

Caribbelln Connedicms" ^m:lSinaugurated dUJ the Intmwtionnl Development Bank's Forum

of

the Amerims Monthly Luncha:m, ;'1 Wlshinglu'l D.C. 'TIre speaker of t}", forum "'" Professor Robert Gu!Shurg from 0", Ros<1Istiel School

of

the University

of

Miami, and chair

of

the Internationnl Year

of

the

Reef,

who presented

"Ret:fs

of the Americas: Their Hmlth Our Wealth~. From left to right: Rogelio Novey, IDB; 1m Rubinoff, srRI;

I..mvrence ChewnUlg, OAS-Palwma; Muni Figuere;, lOB; Thomas

Wvejoy,

Ross Sinums, and Jolin Berry, SI, Lucy Doric.k, STR1; and Miguel BreHos, 51. (Photo: Courtesy of E.m1wd A.fFiT$'

Lost CD Writer· •• "CD

Write,." Extraoiado

A box from Tiger Corporation was lost at the Tupper Center mailing room containing a CD writer. We will appreciate anybody who may give us some information on the missing box, at 232-4225 or the SfRI Security Office, ext. 2246 •••

Una

caja que conlenln un "CD writer~ de fa Corporacwn Tiger desapareci6 del cunrfo de disJribud6n de correo err Tupper. CunIquiera que hnya reci.bido el equipo ⁰pueda dar algu1Ul infoT1Tl1lCi6n sobre isle debe /lamar af tel. 232-4225 0 /a Oficina de Seguridad de STRl, ext. 2246.

MISCELLANEOUS Equipo

^de

Football

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Campeones 1997

Muchas felidtadones al equipo de Football de STRl, quietlES ganaron el b'ofeo ''Campeones 19W" el viemes 30 de mayo, por su participation en 1a Liga de Reladones Exteriores. Los miembros del equipo son Heidy Banford, Carlos Bonilla, COnsul Chamorro, Manuel Garrido

y J ose

I. sanchez. Con eUos jugaron tambien Cornelio Almanza, Luis Banda, Rko Boy,

JesUs

Garrido, Hector Rodriguez, Motses sanchez. y Omar VelAsquez.. quienes labror~n

actualmente en la renovaci6n del Edifldo #359 de Naos.

For Sale

Two female ooxers, 2-months old, $150 each.lnterested please call Ussy Barnett at 270-0400.

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