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BEHAVIOR DISCUSSION GROUP MEETING Tues., Jul. 28, 2pm
Jay Falk
Tupper Large Meeting Room
Female-limited polymorphism in hummingbirds: Testing the hypotheses
TUPPER SEMINAR Tues., Jul. 28, 4pm Nathan Jud, University of Florida Tupper Auditorium
Fossil lianas and the Miocene rainforests of Panama PALEOTALK DOUBLE FEATURE
Wed. Jul. 29, 4pm Amanda Waite University of Florida
From ocean gateway closure to land bridge exposure:
Insights from Caribbean paleoceanography Alexander Correa-Metrio
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México The Holocene in tropical Mexico: critical transitions of a non-stationary climatic system
CTPA
GALETA PUBLIC TALK Jue. 30 de julio, 7pm Steve Paton STRI
Fuerte de Lesseps, Batería Morgan
El clima de Panamá y el fenómeno del niño BAMBI SEMINAR
Thur., Jul. 30, 7:15pm Margaret Crofoot
University of California – Davis Barro Colorado Island
Collective Behavior in Complex Societies: Lessons from Tracking Wild Baboons
WHAT’S HAPPENING AT STRI?
SEMINARS
New reef fish
found off Curaçao.
Full story: www.stri.si.edu issuu.com/strinewspanama
JUL 24, 2015
Coryphopterus curasub.
Researchers based their identification of this new species on this female specimen, shown after preservation (above) and before preservation (below).
Coryphopterus curasub.
Los investigadores basaron la identificación de esta nueva especie en este espécimen de una hembra que se muestra después (arriba) y antes de su preservación (debajo).
FIELD COURSES and SPECIAL EVENTS Nudibranchs Workshop
July 22 – August 6
Contact person: Rachel Collin
University of California, Riverside Tropical Ecology field course July 26 - August 22
Contact person: Louis Santiago Golden Frog Festival August 14 - 30
Contact person: Jimena Pitty
Graduación del programa ¡CHISPA!
¡ChISPA! es un programa de tutorías en ciencias que trabaja con niños de barrios de la ciudad de Panamá incluyendo El Chorrillo, Santa Ana y Curundú. Uno de sus principales objetivos es exponer a los jóvenes a diferentes áreas de la ciencia y a distintos roles profesionales, que van desde biólogos de campo a periodistas científicos y desde paleontólogos a líderes ambientales. Los participantes se unieron con científicos del Smithsonian para experimentar ciencia y la conservación de primera mano.
En ¡ChISPA! Han participado alrededor de 208 jóvenes desde que inició en el 2012. El programa continua traba- jando con la ONG Movimiento Nueva Generación, y una donación de 3 años por parte de la Embajada de los Estados Unidos.
La graduación de los “chisperos” se realizó el pasado 17 de julio. Entre los participantes y oradores se encontraban Kevin O’Reilly, Ministro Consejero de Negocios de la Em- bajada de Estados Unidos, Juan Carlos Córdoba, Director Ejecutivo del Movimiento Nueva Generación y Oris Sanjur, Directora Asociada para la administración Científica por parte del Smithsonian en Panamá.
¡CHISPA! Program graduation
¡ChISPA! is a science mentoring program for young people from Panama City neighborhoods including El Chorrillo, Santa Ana and Curundú. One of its primary objectives is to expose young people to different fields of science and professional roles: from field biologists to science journal- ists and from leading environmentalists to paleontologists.
Participants teamed up with Smithsonian scientists to expe- rience science and conservation first hand.
208 young people have participated in ¡ChISPA! since it was launched in 2012. The program continues to partner with the NGO, Movimiento Nueva Generación, funded by a three-year grant from the United States State Department.
Among the participants at the “chisperos” graduation, held on July 17, were Kevin O’Reilly, Deputy Chief of Business at the U.S. Embassy; Juan Carlos Cordoba, Executive Director of Movimiento Nueva Generación and Oris Sanjur, Associ- ate Director for Scientific Administration at the Smithson- ian in Panama.
ARRIVALS
Christina Campbell
California State University Northridge Dietary Alcohol Ingestion by Free-ranging Spider Monkeys (Ateles geoffroyi): An Evaluation of the
“Drunken Monkey” Hypothesis Scott Cinel
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Predator foraging behavior
Gamboa and Barro Colorado Island Carleen Rodriquez
University of California – Riverside Field Course - Plant Ecology: a University of California, Riverside Course in Gamboa
Galeta Station, Gamboa, Tupper and Barro Colorado Island
Wayne Sousa
University of California – Berkeley Patterns and mechanisms of canopy tree regeneration in a Caribbean mangrove forest
Galeta Station
Alexander Zimmermann and Stephan Jacobi University of Potsdam
Ecosystem Services in the Panama Canal Watershed Tupper and Agua Salud
Douglas Jones, Nathan Jud and Ian Cannon University of Florida
Field Course - Geology and Paleontology of Panama and the Panama Canal
Center for Tropical Paleoecology Margaret Crofoot
University of California – Davis
Robert Lessnau, Michelle Faehr and Megan O’Keefe Cincinnati Zoo & Botanical Garden FOOD FOR THOUGHT: Does “smart foraging”
explain how primates can afford big brains?
Barro Colorado Island Anna Normand University of Florida Matthew Costa
University of California, San Diego Soil Nutrient Dynamics
Bocas del Toro, Tupper and Galeta Station
Questions/comments Preguntas/comentarios
@ stri_panama
#smithsonian strinews @ si.edu
DEPARTURES
Daniel Buitrago
To Parque Nacional Santa Fe, Veraguas.
For a fieldtrip on birds diversity at the Santa Fe, Veraguas National Park and the importance of camera traps Saskia Santamaria
To Los Santos, Panama
To visit research sites used for courses and to follow up on former students as part of the Leadership Program Rachel Collin
To Bocas Del Toro To oversee administration at the Research station
Apolinar Guerrero To Bocas Del Toro
To train on the use of catalogue, data base, opening of an Illiad account and entering articles in SRO, as well as maintenance and revision of the book collection
Jacob Slusser To Pedasi, Los Santos To facilitate ELTI’s Ecological Restoration in Cattle Ranching Landscapes Course
PUBLICATIONS
McCaffery, R.; Richards-Zawacki, C.; Lips, K. 2015. The demography of Atelopus decline: Harlequin frog survival and abundance in central Panama prior to and during a disease outbreak. Global Ecology and Conservation 4: 232-242. DOI:
10.1016/j.gecco.2015.07.003
Orzechowski, E. A.; Lockwood, R.; Byrnes, J. E.K.; Anderson, S.
C.; Finnegan, S.; Harnik, P. G.; Lindberg, D. R.; Liow, L. Hsiang;
L., Heike K.; McClain, C. R.; McGuire, J. L.; O’Dea, A.; Pandolfi, J. M.; Simpson, C.l; Tittensor, D. P. 2015. Marine extinction risk shaped by trait–environment interactions over 500 million years.
Global Change Biology DOI: 10.1111/gcb.12963
Luiz, O. J.; Allen, A. P.; Robertson, D. R.; Floeter, S. R.; Madin, J.
S. 2015.Seafarers or castaways: ecological traits associated with rafting dispersal in tropical reef fishes. Journal of Biogeography DOI: 10.1111/jbi.12574
Hemond, E. M.; Vollmer, S. V. 2015. Diurnal and nocturnal transcriptomic variation in the Caribbean staghorn coral, Acropora cervicornis. Molecular Ecology. DOI: 10.1111/
mec.13320
Liu, H.; Xu, Q.; He, P.; Santiago, L. S.; Yang, K.; Ye, Q.
2015. Strong phylogenetic signals and phylogenetic niche conservatism in ecophysiological traits across divergent lineages of Magnoliaceae. Scientific Reports 5: 12246 DOI: 10.1038/
srep12246
Farine, D. R.; Whitehead, H. 2015. Constructing, conducting, and interpreting animal social network analysis. Journal of Animal Ecology DOI: 10.1111/1365-2656.12418
