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Smilhoonlan "Ii'oplc:allleoearch InsIiIute • P.O. Box

2J172.

Balboa, Panama • Tel227~ • Fax 232-5978

TUI'I'ER CENTI;R SEMINAR

No noon seminar scheduled for Tuesday, April 28. U you wish to give a .seminar, please contact Neal Smith.

BAMBI SEMINAR

Thu, Apr 30, Bambi seminar speaker will be Julie Ve1asquez-Runk. SfRl

&:OlDgy and Matulgement

of

Non- Turdter Fortst PtodJlc:tB ift tM Dilrim Transportation and dinner reservations are essential. Please call Bel at 272-2124.

NAOS I.UNCHEON

For information about the Naos Luncheon seminars, please consult the Web at http://16O.111.136.12/ Naos.

1 -:boon. Schedule.html

PEOPLE

Arrivals

• Bill Wilsey, Mc.{;ill University, Cana·

da, Apr 25-30-, to study the effects of

C~ enrichment on carbon storage and species growth in a tropical species plantation ecosystem, on mainland.

• Catherine Potvin, McCill University, Apr 26 -

JuJ

31, to work on the effects of

CO:z

enrichment on carbon storage and species growth in a tropical mixed-species plantation ecosystem, on mainland.

• Matthew McKensie, Australia, Apr 26 - Jun 7, to work with David Wilson, on an interoceank comparison of patterns of larval supply in coral reef fishes between the Great Barrier Reef, Caribbean and the Australian NW Shelf, in San Bias and Naos.

• William Burnett, Scottish Association for :uine Scence, Apr 2J - May 24, to conduct molecular investigations on the phylogeny and transmission of a marine symbiosis, at NOO6 and San Bias.

E-mail: calderom@tivoli.si.edu

DODDS' CIU1UId. and Clayton MiddlL Sdwol sbuhnts ""rlicipate i. tlu

mJlnne

eductJtiotf JASON projedi "OutJn of EArth and BtymuJ"i FrU!lUuring iWiotic tJtui biotic propertiLs of the marint mvironmmt tJt PunttJ CukbrtJ's

be~ Oft ThursdtJY, April 16 ••• EstudWlntes de sa:undarill tit CururuJu Y Clayton ,.,mapa. del progmma mualtioo JASON -MIls

AlJd

del P/andD Oaimo", midiendo las propitdades biOticas Y abiOticas del ambittdt marino m Ia p/a),cz tk Punbl CWebra. d juevt:s 16 tk obril.

m*" "".

^{B. Sdfnt)}

• D. _ o l d, Adriane Bot and Diethe Ortius, University 01 Aarhus,

Denmark. Apr 30 -May 23, to work with

Jacobus

Boomsma, on the evolutionary ecology of a fungus--growmg ants, in Gamboa.

Depmures

• HOCtor GuzmAn. Apr 28 - May

2.

to Cancun, MOOco, invited by the NatureConservarcy and the Florida Center for Marine Conservation for the Southern Caribbean to develop a general plan for the conservation..

monitoring and management of Mexican coral reefs.

Historia de Dos Oceaoos

The video "Historia de Dos Oceanos" featuring various members of the STRJ staff will be presented on Thursday,. April 30 to SfRI employees.

Don', miss it! ••• EI ^video, Historia de Dos Ckhmas, que muestra wrias miembrc6 del pe,sollal de STRI se presentanl el jueves, 30 de abril pam too", I", empJauf05 de STRl. iNo se 10 pierda!

1 April 24. 1998

SmithsonWt 1h>pical Resean:h

Institute •

Aportado 2l'f12, Balboa. p~ • Tel 2271022 • Fax 232-5978

SeueWy"s

Day •••

DUr Ii< '" ~

STRI _ the

Interamerk3n Secretary's

Day this

past

week, ^aIlS wishes to oongratulate aU the Institute's secretar- ies for their lnvaluable rontribution to the succe56

or

the STRI mission,

In

the

proto

^Is JenniI ...

Campuzano,

secretary at the Procurement Office ••• STRI altbr6 d Dillntemmen- cano ^de las Secretarias tsta semana

Y

dtsea feUcilar

a

todas /as sterd.ari:Js del Instituto por 5U i11CSl1aJlable amtribuciOn al b:ito de Ia misi6n de

STRI.

En fa

fo/0 "1"""" Itnni", Camp""'"o,

SK1Wlria de Ia

Oficina

de Compms. (Foto, M.A Guerm).

ANNOUNCEMENTS BeG1 para listlldjante

de Biologia

La Universidad de Pennsylvania y SIlU ammdan una beca

para

panamet'Io

para un curso

de introducti6n de biologla de campo y un rorto proyecto de investigaci6n, dei13 al30 de mayo de 1998. Requisitos entusiasmo

para

ei trabajo de campo; hablar fluldamente eilngle;; exceleocia academica;

dIsponibilidad

de dedicarse al curso tiempo completo en diferenles sltIos. Las solicitudes deben incIuir hoja de vida, creditos universltarios ofidales, y una carta de presentad6n en Ingles Indicando Ia razOn por Ia que desea partidpar en este CUfSO. FEcl1a limite

para

aplicar. 4 de mayo de 1998.

Envfe su solicitud a Ia Ofidna de Educaci6n de STRI, Tel.

'127.f1rl2. • Fax 232-5978 • E-mail: barrioo@tivoli.si.edu

Request fo<

Proposals

Funding is available for undersea research in the Caribbean region for 1999 through the Caribbean Marine Resean:h Center (CMRO under the auspices of the NOAA National

E·mail: caJderom@tivolLsLedu 2

Underseo Research

Program.

CMRC will provide support for resean:h that addresses the NOAA theme: spawning and larval dispersal studies with emphasis on essential habilat requirements for spawning and larva1 recruitment.

The full request for proposals, instructions and contacts ....

available on CMRCs web page: http: //www.aruc.org

FlUID Human Reoouroes

Mark Leeming Is searching for work in the field of biology.

Does not require a large salary. He Is an honours graduate in Zoology from the University of Otago, New Zealand.

Will be traveling to Central America soon and Is looking for work to support himself for at

leas'

three months. Qualifica- tions: Well versed in laboratory and resean:h methods, excellent romputer skills, moderate rommancl of Spanish, desire to do good sdence and gain more experien::e in the area of biology. E-mafr markIeemlng@hotmail.com

NEW STRI PUBLICATIONS

Boecolo, MilI"CO, Bu.ongiOlnO, Joseph and Omayo.,. ..

Theodore. 1997. "Simulating options for carbon seq\

tration through improved management of a lowland tropical rainforest."

Environment

and Development

Economics

^2: 241-263.

Datlins, James W., Swaine, M.D. and Garwood, Nancy

C

1998. "Dispersal Patterns and Seed

Bank Dynamics

of Pioneer Trees in Moist Tropical Forest." Ecology 79(2), 564-578.

Nason, John D., Herre, E. Allen and Hamrick, James L 1998. '"The Breeding Structure of a Tropical Keystone Plant Resource."

Nature

391: 685-687.

STR.I May Birthdays

Aurelio Virgo 1

*, .

John Christy 4 Angel Aguirre 5 Steve Paton 5 Emesto Pena 7

Juan

^{B. Dutary 13}

Juan

Barrfa 13 Gabriel JAcome 13 UbaIdo PImenIcl 17 Alejandro Arze 17 \1,.

Anthony Coates 20

' i

~

•

Eduardo Sierra 20 Felix SAnchez 26

~rJUnenez 29 NaJq ^Knowlton 30

April 24, 1998