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SMITHSONIAN TROPICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE
La misión del Instituto Smithsonian de Investigaciones Tropicales es ampliar y divulgar los conocimientos sobre el pasado, presente y futuro de los ecosistemas tropicales y su relevancia para el bienestar humano. Nuestro trabajo en Panamá inició en 1910, cuando el Smithsonian dirigió uno de los primeros grandes estudios de impacto ambiental en el mundo, para estudiar y catalogar la flora y la fauna de los bosques tropicales que se inundarían con la creación del Canal de Panamá. Un siglo después, el Smithsonian en Panamá es una plataforma mundial para la investigación de ecosistemas tropicales forestales y marinos y su asombrosa biodiversidad.
Vamos a retomar el control de nuestra vida para enfocarnos en los temas que mas nos ayudarán a conocernos , de manera que podamos enfrentar al mundo de una manera positiva y productiva.
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Gamboa house tour, Panama
Tour of a recently remodeled Canal Zone house in Gamboa, Panama. Gamboa town is home of the dredging division of the Canal and labs and biologists from the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI). The home can be rented to STRI biologists for long stays or to anyone for shorter stays through Airbnb
The Smithsonian Tropical Research Institution
A tour of the field station. Music: Volare by Gypsy Kings
Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute Panama in the Puntacana Ecological Foundation.
With fantastic help from Victor Galvan and the team at the Puntacana Ecological Foundation, they found a few underwater sites with potential for the dermal denticle project. The foundation also showed us their successful coral nursery and out-planting sites for Acropora cervicornis, which is being placed on dead reefs for recolonization. A no-take zone that covered one reef site was impressively full of fish for a degraded reef site, a sign that populations can recover quite quickly, even in a small area where no fishing is allowed. Blue Vision Adventures kindly gave us access to their excellent dive facilities.
Smithsonian STRI Gamboa Schoolhouse mural, liana day
Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Gamboa Field House: liana mural, animals during the day.
Smithsonian STRI Gamboa Schoolhouse mural: liana night
Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Gamboa Field Station: animals that use lianas to move through the forest at night.
Biologists Flock to Panama to a Century-Old Tropical Research Institute
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Light barely reaches the ground of the dense rain forest on Barro Colorado Island in Panama. In the early morning hours, two researchers are looking for monkeys. Anthropology professor Stephanie Ramirez is an expert on spider monkeys.
STEPHANIE RAMIREZ: ... I'm interested in is how fruit affects their reproductive potential, because spider monkeys mostly consume fruit. And we've noticed that during times when fruit is not abundant or available they can't conceive.
There are only thirty-nine spider monkey on the island. Eight have radio transmitters around their necks.
Stephanie Ramirez and Lauren Mills are using a radio receiver to follow the movement of the animals. But they are not alone. Tony Coates is with the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Panama.
TONY COATES: The Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute here in Panama is something of a mecca for all biologists in the world who are interested in the tropics and in tropical biology.
The Institute was started there 100 years ago. Abby Bruning came from South Dakota to study ants.
ABBY BRUNING: We manipulate their diets. So either they will be on a high carbohydrate or a high protein diet and at the end we run analyses to see how well they fight off infection, death rates and things like that.
Bruning studies a single species of ant. High above the ants, pink flowered almendro trees brighten the forest's canopy. Worker ants carry the flowers to their home.
An Azteca ant colony is a big structure that takes more than a year to build. The ants they shelter are the favorite meal of ant eaters.
Scientists say there are about 100 kinds of mammals and nearly as many reptiles on the island.
Tony Coates says tropical areas are a sea of life.
TONY COATES: The vast majority of all species of plants and animals live in the tropics. The vast majority of all the technical knowhow, political will, education and financing is in the temperate world. How to get those two realms together is one of the great issues facing global conservation.
The headquarters of the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute is in Panama City. Its library on tropical biology is considered one of the world's best.
TONY COATES: It follows the same system as the Library of Congress.
In nearby Culebra, a Smithsonian educational center is open to the public.
Thousands of children visit each year.
TONY COATES: That is our biggest educational contribution to our host country, Panama.
The Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Panama is celebrating its hundredth year. It is also launching a new research center in Gamboa.
Private donors want the institute to study subjects of growing concern today. These include how forest's control erosion and capture carbon from the air. They also want to know how to protect this important ecosystem.
Tropical Research in Panama
Every Lindblad-National Geographic expedition that transits the Panama Canal stops at Barro Colorado Island in the Canal Zone. This island was created when the Canal Zone was flooded and it is the longest continuously researched tropical site in the world. Video by Ross Weinberg.
Rachel Page | Catching Trachops
Instituto Smithsonian de Investigaciones Tropicales - Punta Culebra - Video estudantil
El Centro de Exhibiciones Marinas, o CEM, es una iniciativa de STRI sin fines de lucro, que depende del apoyo de la Fundación Smithsonian de Panamá y de entidades internacionales. Ofrece a sus visitantes un museo al aire libre enfocado principalmente en la ciencia marina y en la educación, conservación e interpretación de los ambientes costeros marinos. Más de 450,000 estudiantes y visitantes han llegado a CEM desde su inicio en 1996, y cientos de escolares han tomado parte en sus programas educativos.
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Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute - Galeta Marine Laboratory - Student Orientation Video
The Galeta Marine Laboratory is located on the Caribbean coast of Panama in the Province of Colon. It was established in 1964. The main priority is research, but we also value communicating the results of this research to non-scientific audiences in order to increase awareness and understanding of the natural world.
Our Educational Program offers guided visits to students, tourists and the general public. In these visits, we explain the unique ecosystems and wildlife of Galeta and emphasize the importance of conserving the environment we share.
In spanish with english subtitles.
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Gamboa Panama and Jungleland Lodge part 3 Hooked
An overnight stay at the Jungleland lodge. Sam and I had a great evening trading stories with Capt. Carl and getting some fishing in to boot. I also got my first hook in my hide past the barb. If you ever get the chance to visit Jungleland, I highly recommend that you stay the night. Don't bother with setting an alarm clock either. The howler monkeys will take of that for you.
Muelle del Smithsonian - Gamboa, Panamá
Muelle del Smithsonian - Gamboa, Panamá
Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute Canopy Crane
Complete Panama Canal Tour with Alexander+Roberts
We uniquely include a complete Panama Canal crossing, historic Portobelo and the Smithsonian's Barro Colorado Reserve.
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Our tour includes a full Canal Transit from the Pacific all the way to the Atlantic! Experience more of Casco Antiguo's Colonial-era charms in a congenial group of 16 guests or fewer. Join our expert naturalists at Barro Colorado in Gatun Lake; this pristine reserve is home to 50% of all the birds and mammals found in Panama! Immerse in the lively traditions of historic Portobelo, where a rich Afro-Caribbean culture endures against a backdrop of ancient Colonial sites. Ride the historic Panama Railroad, built in 1855 to carry fortune seekers during the Gold Rush.
Historical Panama Canal (Gamboa) house for sale
We're selling our historical home in Gamboa, Panamá. Here is an amateur 5 minute tour filmed on January 8, 2017.
Gamboa is located midway between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. The US Government built the Gamboa neighborhoods in the late 1920s to early 1930s to provide homes for employees of the Dredging Division. 106A Jadwin is one of these historical homes.
The house retains the original 1930s architecture, with copper roof, high ceilings, insect-resistant redwood (sequoia) siding and old growth wood floors that have just been resurfaced. The house has new electrical and plumbing systems, 3 bedrooms and an enclosed porch in the second floor. It has one full bathroom, one half bathroom, and workers quarters (with an additional bathroom) and garage in the lower level.
The house is ideally situated for anyone interested in tropical nature or Panama Canal history. Within walking distance are Soberanía National Park, Chagres River, Panama Canal, Gamboa Rainforest Resort, Pipeline Road (famous for birding) and the research laboratories of the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute. One can see agoutis (nyekes), toucans, monkeys and other animals from the porch.
The location (on Google Earth) is 9° 7'8.30N and 79°41'57.10W
Summer with STRI in Panama
This is a quick run-through of my projects in the Fortuna Reserve in the highland rainforests of Panama. Pretty dry, the intended audience is my adviser. So, if you're watching this and you aren't an ecology professor at the University of Nebraska-Omaha I make no apologies for it being boring.
UCR Summer Study Abroad 2015- Panama!
This program will be based in Gamboa, Panama, in charming tropical plantation-style classrooms & dorms with Soberania National Park & Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute. Students will study & interact with the biological & cultural diversity of a living laboratory: the Panama Canal, among other excursions. Courses taught in English
Rare raft visit to Smithsonian Tropical Research facility inside Panama Canal, Barro Colorado
Come with us, scientists, on a rare zodiac raft visit to the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute facility inside the Panama Canal, in the protected nature preserve of Barro Colorado Island, on a permit with National Geographic. See & Hear the howler monkeys. Boa Constrictor snake. Crocodile (very small croc). Birds. Strangler fig. Flowering trees, and more.
Nature, travel, family videos by DGold with additional photography by A.Gold, L.Gold, and Miri (age 8). We traveled around the Central American countries of Costa Rica and Panama tracking wildlife, mostly on the Pacific Ocean side with National Geographic Lindblad Expeditions, on a ship called the Sea Lion or going ashore using Zodiac rafts. At the end we went through the Panama Canal, 100 years after it opened to let ships pass from the Pacific, raise up over the continental divide through a series of locks, and lower back down to enter the Atlantic Ocean in a short distance (around 50 miles). Our Lindblad Expedition Title was: Costa Rica & Panama Through the Canal and into the pure wildness of Costa Rica and Panama and the homepage website is
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