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Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute Weekly Newsletter Panama, August 6, 1999

Presidential Visit

Visita Presidencia l

Elected President Mireya Moscoso and officials of the new Panamanian government will visit STRI on Wednesday, August 11, 10 learn about STRI's research activities in the Republic of Panama ••• La Presidenta electa de Panama, Miteya Moscoso y los ministros de estado del nuevo gabinele de gobierno que se instalara eJ 1 TO de septiembre de 1999, visitartin SfRI el miercoles 11 de agosto en horas de 13 tarde, para con<x:er sabre las actividades de invesligaci6n del Instituto en la Republica de Panama.

Tupper Seminar

Tuesday, August 10, noon seminar speaker will be Stephen Taranto, SfRJ's short-term fellow from the University of Florida.

Title to be announced Please check your bulletin board or your E-mc1.il.

Bambi Seminar

Please consult your bulletin board or E·mail for the title of the next Bambi Seminar at SCI. Remember that transportation and dinner reservations are essential. Call BCI at 272·2124 or E·mail: Bambi

~ ^Arrivals

• Roberto Cordero, University of California, Aug 10 -Aug 5, 2001, to study the integration of canopy and hydraulic architecture in

STRI and City of Knowledge Sign Agreement STRI y la Ciudad del Saber Firman Acuerdo

Ira Rubinoft STRI, and Juan David Morgan, City of Knowledge, signed a renewable S·ycar agreement for the development of scientific and academic collaboration between the two institutions to contribute to the diffusion of publications and reports resulting from }oint scientific research and educational programs. on July 27. The City of Knowledge will have full access to the STRJ bibliographic services and interlibrary network, the molecular laboratories, CfFS and BCI facilities, the Tropical Paleoecology and Archeology Center, the herbarium, and the coUections of seeds, insects, reptiles, etc., as well as the marine and anthropological coUections. TheCity of Know ledge will support programs and projects to be established by STRI with related international and local institutions ••• Ira Rubinoff, STRI, y Juan David Morgan, Ciudad del Saber, firmaron un acuerdo de cinco anos renovables el pasado 27 de julio, para desarrollar actividades de colaboraci6n cientifica y adademica entre ambas instituciones y contribuir ala difusi6nde publicaciones resultado de actividades en conjunto. La Ciudad del Saber tendra acceso a los servicios bibLiograficos de la Biblioteca de STRI ya su red interbibliotecaria, los la boratorios de biologia molecular, las instalaciones del OF'S y BCI, el Centro de Paleoecologia y Arqueologia Tropical, el herbario, y las colecciones de semillas, inseclos, rept iles, etc., asi como a las colecciones antropol6gicas y marinas. La Ciudad del Saber se compromete a apoyar las actividades y proycctos de STRl con instituciones internacionales y nacionales, asi como gestiones dellnstituto para iograr recursos financicros para estos programas.

Psychotria species along light and moisture gradients, on BCl.

Basin SympOSium, at the International Botanical Congress.

Departures STRI in the News

• Fernando Santos ~ "Promueven Plan de Ecotunsmo", Granero, Aug 9 - _

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par Henry Raymont, Washington, 23. to Lima, Peru, D.C. 1999. EI Panama America,

to do research Martes 3 de agosto.

work on the Anawak peoples of Central Peru, at the National Library .

• Noris Salazar, Aug 1 - 7, to Saint Louis, Missouri, to present the conference "Disjurlct Distribulio'l of Mosses in Central America" in the Biogeography of the Caribbe.m

From Visitor's Services Office

This is to inform all staff and visitors that research within the Metropolitan Nature Park requires special

permlSslon in addition to the necessary pe{jjti~from ANAM.If you have any ~nggjJtg project, please contact Mar;H'Leone at the Visitors' Services O~at Tupper. If you have plans for future projects at the Park, please advise at least one month in advance. our ^COQ ration will be greatlyapp . ted •• Se Ie informa a lodos el y visilantes de STRI que p a lie cabo proyectos dentro d ,t Pa que Natural Metropolitano se requiere de un permiso especial ademas del permiso de ANA . . estA ando a cabo

Gonzalez, Pedro and Lessios, Harilaos A. 1999. "Evolution afSea Urchin Retroviral·Like (SURL) Elements: Evidence from 40 EchinoidSpecies." Molecular Biology

arid £vo/ut i01l 16(7): 938-952 Lasker, Howard R., Kim, Kiha, and

Coffroth, Mary Alice. 1999.

"Reproductive and Genetic Variation among Caribbean Gorgonians: the Differentiation of Plexaura kuna, New Speciec;".

Bulleti" of Marilll! Sciellce 58(1):

277-288.

Schaerer L., and Robertson, D. Ross.

our planet's climate, but we do nol really understand how. The sea is still the frontier, and yet it seems so familiar that we sometimes forget how little we know about it. Just as we are poised on the verge of exploiliny the sea on an unprecedented s mining it, fertilizing it, fishing it out-this book reminds us of how much we have yet 10 learn. More than that, it chronicles the knowledge explosion that has transformed our view of the sea in just the past few decades and made it a far more interesting and accessible place.

presente, 1999. "Sperm and milt

aeJ'J""~ia Leone en la characteristics and male vs. female Toward a New Philosophy of Biology it ,,1 STRl. 5i liene investment in Ihe Caribbean reef By Ernst Mayc

planes de ioidar un proyecto en el fish Tholnssoma bifasciatum." Journal $19.95 (Paperback)

Parque en el futuro, avise al menos of Fisli Biology 55: 329-343. Ernst Mayr is one of the handful of the can un mes de anticipadon. Se Ie greatest scientific minds humankind agradecera su colaboration en este has yet produced ... This beautifully

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and Conference Center. To irnpove martes 10 (rlDle el Cilmbio en la classic.

security at STRI please notify the feclla) de agosto en al AuditQrio

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if you see visitors without proper ~ . . passes ••• A partir del miercoles 4 Jose EspinO:

de agosto los permisos autorizados Buceo .Cientifico en el Manejo de la Diversidad Bi6logica para visitantes en Tupper, Tivoli y Smlthsoman Bacynayagua, Matanzas. Cuba. del 3- Pastor's House son amarillos. Los Suzanne Lao: 18 de octubre. S500 (inscription, pennisos rosa son para Areas Centro de Ciendas ForestaJes en material de trabajo (manual, publicas: Biblioteca, Libreria. iosTropicos:QuienesSomos,Que programas, alimentaci6n, alojamiento Cafeteria y Centro de Conferencias. Hacemos, y Par Que y transporte una vez en Cuba. Para Se Ie agradecero su cooperaci6n

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Embryogenesis in the Inarticulate Brachiopod Discinisca".

Developmelltal 8iology209: 321-339.

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percent of it. The sea contains millions DifmvXb;rirte;a'fm·747p. ;.: of species of animals and plants, but -

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