Biodiversa
Español abajo A century ago, the first Smithsonian scientists arrived in Panama and became enthralled by its unique and abundant biodiversity. Biodiversa is a journey into the tropics and a dive into questions that tackle the greatest environmental challenges of our future. Join us for a behind the scenes peek at the groundbreaking field science conducted at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute. Hace un siglo, los primeros científicos del Smithsonian llegaron a Panamá y quedaron cautivados por su abundante y singular biodiversidad. Biodiversa es un viaje al trópico y una inmersión en las preguntas que abordan los mayores desafíos ambientales del futuro. Acompáñanos a explorar tras bastidores la ciencia de campo innovadora que se realiza en el Instituto Smithsonian de Investigaciones Tropicales.
Episodes
How have tropical oceans endured periods of environmental change over centuries and millennia? Did the reef environment shift after the arrival of humans in the isthmus of Panama thousands of years ago? These are some of the questions that scientists in the O’Dea lab at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute are hoping to answer by coring the ocean floor with six-meter-long aluminum pipes and then analyzing the conten...
Laura Marangoni is a Brazilian coral physiologist studying whether certain coral communities in the Panamanian Pacific have become resistant to climate change. We will join her in an expedition to Coiba National Park to collect corals and back in the laboratory as she explores the ins and outs of their immune system. Her research is part of the ROHR reef resilience project, an ambitious set of experiments in the Tropical E...
Parecen mosaicos de baño, pero estas plaquitas cuadradas son una herramienta poderosa para estudiar las dinámicas entorno a los organismos más pequeños del arrecife: las algas, invertebrados marinos y peces chicos. Junto a un equipo de investigación del Smithsonian compuesto por Andrew Sellers, Carmen Schloeder, Mark Torchin y Natasha Hinojosa, viajaremos al Pacífico panameño para entender cómo las condiciones cambiantes d...
La científica panameña Betzi Pérez-Ortega lleva años estudiando las hormonas del estrés y las comunicaciones entre los delfines de Bocas del Toro, para saber si la presencia de los botes de turismo los afecta. La pandemia por COVID-19 y las restricciones de movimiento en 2020 le presentaron una oportunidad única: la de entender lo que sucedería con esos delfines sin botes de turismo alrededor. En 2022, con el turismo react...
¿Qué habita en las montañas submarinas de Coiba? La periodista científica Leila Nilipour se une a una expedición de dos semanas en altamar con investigadores de Costa Rica, Panamá, Colombia y Ecuador para estudiar por primera vez las montañas submarinas de la Cordillera de Coiba y documentar las especies que habitan allí. A través de un viaje en submarino y con entrevistas a los científicos Héctor Guzmán, Erick Ross Salaza...
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