STRI staff scientist, D. Ross Robertson has released the first, completely portable, bilingual species identification guide for the Tropical Eastern Pacific as a free Iphone application. Unique fish-finding and list-making tools provide powerful resources for scientists, divers and tour guides. The Tropical Eastern Pacific, spanning Baja California to Ecuador and the Galapagos, is one of [...]
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Fish ID Guide App. Free on I-Tunes
Posted in Ecotourism, Educational tours, environmental tours, Panama, Panama beach tours, Panama tour operator, panama whales, Scientific tours, STRI, Sustainable Tourism, Tours and Adventures, Whale watching Panama, tagged bilingual species identification guide for the Tropical Eastern Pacifi, D. Ross Robertson, fauna of the tropical eastern Pacific, field guide for shor fish, fishes of Panama, gerald r allen, iphone applications, panama tour operator, Panama Tours, species identification guide, STRI, tropical eastern pacific fish guide on February 15, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
A Whole New Meaning for Thinking on Your Feet
Posted in Educational tours, environmental tours, Geotourism, Panama, Scientific tours, STRI, Tours and Adventures, tagged panama biodiversity, panama canal, panama sustainable travel, photograp, rainforest spiders, scientific tours, smithsonian researcher, smithsonian tropical research institute, staff scientist at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, STRI, William Wcislo on December 12, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Smithsonian researchers report that the brains of tiny spiders are so large that they fill their body cavities and overflow into their legs. As part of ongoing research to understand how miniaturization affects brain size and behavior, researchers measured the central nervous systems of nine species of spiders, from rainforest giants to spiders smaller than [...]










