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    1. Image of yellow pencils at different stages of sharpening on mechanical belt.

      Link Love: 1/19/2018

      • Date: January 19, 2018
      • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
      • Description: These photos just make you want to write solely in pencil. [story on one of America's last pencil factory via NY Times]It's hard to believe the Flickr Commons, a space in Flickr for archival photo collections, is 10 years old. [via Library of Congress]Scientists, including a fellow from our National Museum of Natural History, Ligiane Moras, have identified two new species of

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    3. Botanist and Director of the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute's Herbarium, Dr. Mireya Correa, received the Jose Cuatrecasas Medal for Excellence in Tropical Botany offered by the Department of Botany and the United States National Herbarium, and Emeritus Scientist of the Year offered by Asociacion para el avance de la Ciencia. #Groundbreaker

      Women in Science Wednesday: Dr. Mireya Correa

      • Date: March 11, 2015
      • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
      • Description: Botanist and Director of the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute's Herbarium, Dr. Mireya Correa, received the Jose Cuatrecasas Medal for Excellence in Tropical Botany offered by the Department of Botany and the United States National Herbarium, and Emeritus Scientist of the Year offered by Asociacion para el avance de la Ciencia. #Groundbreaker

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    5. The Education of George C. Wheeler - Part III

      • Date: February 7, 2013
      • Description: George C. Wheeler and his travel in the Caribbean illustrate the interplay between science and tourism in Latin America.

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    7. Molecular biologist Dr. Oris Sanjur, Associate Director for Science Administration at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, was selected as 1 of the 10 pioneering Women in Science in Panama, and advocates for science and education as essential elements for the development of the country. #Groundbreaker

      Women in Science Wednesday: Dr. Oris Sanjur

      • Date: February 17, 2016
      • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
      • Description: Molecular biologist Dr. Oris Sanjur, Associate Director for Science Administration at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, was selected as 1 of the 10 pioneering Women in Science in Panama, and advocates for science and education as essential elements for the development of the country. #Groundbreaker

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      See Here: 9/3/2010

      • Date: September 3, 2010
      • Creator: The Bigger Picture
      • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="302" caption="Fausto Bocanegra, assistant to director Martin H. Moynihan, on Barro Colorado Island, the research station for the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Panama, is standing in front of the dining hall, c. 1960s, by Unidentified photographer, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives, IHD Photos, Negative

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    11. The Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute's Dr. Rachel Page studies predator/prey interactions, the sensory and cognitive ecology of foraging, and the effect of eavesdroppers on the evolution of their sexually advertising prey. #Groundbreaker

      Women in Science Wednesday: Dr. Rachel Page

      • Date: February 11, 2015
      • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
      • Description: The Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute's Rachel Page studies predator/prey interactions, the sensory and cognitive ecology of foraging, and the effect of eavesdroppers on the evolution of their sexually advertising prey. #Groundbreaker

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      See Here: 9/6/2010

      • Date: September 6, 2010
      • Creator: The Bigger Picture
      • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="261" caption="A project participant uses calipers to measure a tree on Barro Colorado Island during Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI) census, similar to the one in Malaysia, on the biological diversity of tropical rainforests, 1985?, by Carl Hansen, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Accession 98-015 Box

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    15. An image from the Smithsonian Institution Global Earth Observatories website showing Barro Colorado Island an the location of the 50-ha plot and a visualization of data collected by the Forest Dynamics Project.

      How to Fit a Forest in Five Boxes

      • Date: February 11, 2014
      • Description: Field maps illuminate the origins of the Smithsonian’s long-term forest-monitoring project.

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    17. Staff Scientist Emirata, Dr. Mary Jane West-Eberhard, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, studies why some organisms live in societies & is noted for arguing that phenotypic & developmental plasticity play a key role in sharing animal evolution. #Groundbreaker

      Women in Science Wednesday: Dr. Mary Jane West-Eberhard

      • Date: July 1, 2015
      • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
      • Description: Staff Scientist Emirata, Dr. Mary Jane West-Eberhard, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, studies why some organisms live in societies & is noted for arguing that phenotypic & developmental plasticity play a key role in sharing animal evolution. #Groundbreaker

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    19. Community Ecologist Dr. Sunshine A. Van Bael, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, studies how plants co-opt other organisms to aid in their own defense and, to what extent sustainable land-use practices support biodiversity conservation. #Groundbreaker

      Women in Science Wednesday: Dr. Sunshine A. Van Bael

      • Date: June 10, 2015
      • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
      • Description: Community Ecologist Dr. Sunshine A. Van Bael, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, studies how plants co-opt other organisms to aid in their own defense and, to what extent sustainable land-use practices support biodiversity conservation. #Groundbreaker

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      See Here: 11/23/2010

      • Date: November 23, 2010
      • Creator: The Bigger Picture
      • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="413" caption="Francisco "Chi Chi" Vitola, chief of labor force on for the Canal Zone Biological Area (CZBA), feeds a deer on Barro Colorado Island in the Panama Canal Zone, The CZBA was transferred to the Smithsonian in 1924 and in 1946 was renamed the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, c.1940, by Unidentified photographer,

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    23. Lined paper with black ink writing and a drawing of a map at the bottom.

      The Arctic Adventures of Neal Griffith Smith

      • Date: December 21, 2017
      • Creator: Jennifer Wright
      • Description: Today is the first day of winter. Not ready for the cold weather? It could always be worse. Ornithologist (and future tropical biologist) Neal Griffith Smith once wrote in his journal:"Still pensil [sic]. Well, I've got time and temperature to write. Just sharpened the pensil with a snow knife. We are parked smack in the middle of Southampton [Island] in a bloody windstorm. It

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