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SEMINARS - ANCON CONFERENCE ROOM Tuesday, August 16, noon seminar speaker will be SUSAN WELLER, University of Texas at Austin.
Phylogeny of the Nystaleini:
Tracing the Evolution of Pheromone Structures.
Abstract: More systematists and non-systematists are using cladistic techniques to analyze not only relationships among taxa, but the evolution of characters themselves. I will compare the different methods available for tracing character evolution on the cladogram and discuss how these methods generate testable hypotheses. This character analysis, when applied to male pheromone (courtship) structures in notodontid moths, reveals independent, derived losses of these elaborate structures in one clade. The loss of courtship structures means that male chemical communication and correlated courtship behaviors also have been lost. The probable evolutionary pathway of mating systems and role of sexual selection in the speciation of these moths will be discussed.
NEXT WEEK
Tuesday, August 23, noon seminar speaker will be KERYEA SOONG the University of Texas at Austin. '
Reproduction of Colonial Stony Corals.
ARRIVALS
August 11 - 20, KATHERINE LEYDORF to assist K. Milton with monkey studies on BCI.
August 14 October KESSLER, Universitat West Germany, to study BCI.
DEPARTURES
8, MICHAEL Gottingen, plants on
August 14 21, JOSEPH WRIGHT, to Sacramento, California to attend the AIBS Meetings and on annual leave.
August 17 October 15, DONALD WINDSOR, to the U.S. on leave.
ON LEAVE
Aug. 15 - 19, Hely Cortez Aug. 12 - 19, Sylvia Churgin
NEWSLETTER
UPCOMING EVENTS
August 12
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Celebration of General Noriega's fifth anniversary as general of the FFDD. (Beware of heavy traffic jams in the area of Albrook Air Force Base. )August 15 National Holiday to commemorate the death of Arnulfo Arias, former president of Panama, and also the celebration of the founding of Panama city. All government offices, banks and businesses will be closed.
August 17 A talk on STRI's History and Present Activities at 3:30 p.m. in the Ancon Conference Room. All research assistants, visitors, and new staff members are
invited.
LIBERAL LEAVE
A liberal leave policy will be observed on Monday, August 15.
Se observara una politica de vacaciones optativas (liberal leave) el lunes, 15 de agosto.
LIBRARY NEWS
Angel Aguirre will be in charge of the STRI Library from August 12 - 19.
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NOTICIAS DEL MONUMENTO NATURAL DE BARRO COLORADOOn 31 July, Cabo Valentin Gaytan of the Policia Forestal and game warden Eladio Gonzalez captured a poacher on the northern edge of the BCNM. A 20 gauge shotgun was confiscated by the Policia Forestal.
NEW PUBLICATIONS BY STRI STAFF, FELLOWS & RESEARCH ASSOCIATES
Graham, J.B. and I. Rubinoff. 1988.
Diving, . respiration, buoyancy regulatl0n, and cardiac shunting in the sea snake. Transactions of the American Microscopical Society, vol. 107, No. 1.
Congratulations to DAVID and MARY WEST, who just had a new baby daughter. KAREN AZELIN was born on August 4th, and weighed 7 lbs. and 2 ozs.
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DEL DEPARTAMENTO DE CONTABILIDADPlease remember that the correct procedure to follow when purchase orders (packages) are received is to send the INVOICES to the Accounting Department (ATTN: Maria Lorena Ossa). Otherwise a delay in payment of bills will occur. Thank you for your assistance in this matter.
El presente es para recordarles que es necesario enviar las facturas recibidas de pedidos al departamento de cuentas por pagar (ATTN: Maria Morello). si el departamento de contabilidad no recibe las facturas, se ve en la necesidad de pedir una copia a la compania, 10 cual demora el pago.
Le agradecemos su colaboracion en este asunto.
TEMPORARY POSITION AVAILABLE L PLAZA TEMPORAL VACANTE
A computer analyst/ programmer temporary position in DBASE III Plus is available at STRI. Send CV with references to Box 2072, Balboa, Panama, and include examples of previous computer programming.
Se busca analista/programador en DBASE III Plus, con experiencia en desarrollar aplicaciones con el programa y saber leer y escribir en ingles. Es una posicion temporal.
Favor enviar su curriculum vitae con referencias, y muestras de trabajos previos, al Apartado 2072, Balboa, Panama.
FROM PROCUREMENT
Closing down on Procurement actions through Purchase Orders for FY88 will be on Friday, September 2. No new purchase orders, except for BONA FIDE emergency requests will be processed after that date.
Some Purchases September a minimum.
BPA's and Imprest will continue 30, but should be
Fund until kept to
Please submit your service contracts for FY89 by September 26.
ANNIVERSARY Annette Pastor's dead
Aiello's telephone in House has been officially
for two years.
WEDDING BELLS
congratulations to HELY CORTEZ, STRI Accounting Department, who tied the knot on August 11, and to DR. ERIC FISHER, new STRI Deputy Director, whose wedding ceremony is August 13th.
INFORMATION REQUEST
BIODOC, a documentation center for wildlife biology in the Universidad Nacional, Heredia, Costa Rica, is requesting donations of reprints, book, and unpublished reports.
GRANTS AVAILABLE
Pending availability of funds, a second Animal Behavior Society research grant competition will be held with an application deadline of November 1. Application forms and guidelines are available from J. Randall, Dept. Biol, San Francisco State Univ., San Francisco, CA 94123.
The National Science Foundation encourages grant applications for a number of special programs:
-Research Opportunities for Women (202/357-7734) ,
-Research Experiences for Undergraduates (202/357-9880), -Research in Undergraduate Institutions (202/357-7456) , -Research Opportunities for Minority Scientists and Engineers
(202/357-7350) .
O.T.S. COURSE ANNOUNCEMENT
The Organization for Tropical Studies is offering its 26th consecutive year of graduate programs in tropical science in Costa Rica. The course TROPICAL BIOLOGY: AN ECOLOGICAL APPROACH 89-1 will be held late January 1989. Applicants must be enrolled in, or accepted for, a graduate college program. Deadline for applications is October 1, 1988.
ARCHAE LOGICAL CONFERENCES May 21-25, 1990.
International Conference
The Sixth of the International council
Archaeozoology will be hosted the smithsonian Institution Washington D.C.
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sept. 1990. El II congreso Mundial de Arquelogia se llevara a cabo en la ciudad de Merida, Venezuela.
