Carlos Tejada to retire
August 16, 2010Facilities Management Office director Carlos Tejada, 63, retired this week after 22 years at STRI...
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Guide's Day celebration at STRI
by Georgina de Alba
August 16, 2010
Our public program guides are the public face of the Institute. Recently, STRI celebrated "Guide's Day" to highlight the work of our guides with a gathering at STRI's Punta Culebra Nature Center...
SNI distinguishes three STRI scientists
August 09, 2010Panama's Sistema Nacional de Investigación [Panama's National Research System] or SNI, selected STRI researchers Hermógenes Fernández-Marín, Sunshine Van Bael and Roberto Ibáñez, as new members...
"Dr. Christy rocks!!!"
August 09, 2010On one end, at Naos, Christy described his work with fiddler crabs to 32 children at the Smithsonian Institution's Ripley Center....
New touch pool inaugurated at Punta Culebra Nature Center
August 02, 2010The new touch pool was designed to promote direct and concrete learning on marine life, since the visitors will be able to touch all organisms inhabiting the aquarium....
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Forests and elevated [CO2]
August 02, 2010The major responses of plants to elevated concentrations of carbon dioxide or [CO2], are increased CO2 fixation and reduced transpirational water loss per unit of CO2 absorbed...
New frogs challenge ARC researchers, from DC to PTY
August 02, 2010The discoveries lead to hope of saving them of the fungus that is killing frogs worldwide and the fear that many species will go extinct before we even know they exist....
Frog killer caught in the act: Measuring life's data loss in Panama by barcoding
July 26, 2010The first before-and-after view of an amphibian die-off has just been published by scientists working at STRI...
Native species kit awarded by EuropeAid
July 26, 2010Adriana Sautu from the Biomuseo, Wendy Tribaldos from La Prensa and Mónica Alvarado from STRI were awarded for a supplement, in the category of dissemination of scientific information in written press...
Introduction to Biology course
July 26, 2010The participants of the 2008 and 2009 Introduction to Biology course received the certificates of participation on July 16, at the Tupper Center...