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Hawaiian Plant Lineage With an Identity Crisis

Using current technological and scientific advances, we are able to observe a snapshot of a plant group that is rapidly diversifying.

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Conserving Modern and Contemporary American Art

Research and conservation of paintings at the Lunder Conservation Center in Washington, DC.

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Activating the Learning Potential of Digitized Museum Objects with the Smithsonian Learning Lab

How can digital tools help educators to foster meaningful learning experiences with museum objects? How can museum- and school-based practices inform each other? What role can technology play in this process?

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Of Cables and Serpents

Why the transatlantic telegraph cable conjured dreams of sea monsters.

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Life in the (Urban) Jungle

As more species face urbanization worldwide, understanding the impacts of urbanization on species is vital to properly assess how our behaviors as humans are influencing and altering ecosystems and species.

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How Do You Like Your Eggs?

Burrowing crayfish are key resources in many ecosystems across the planet, and yet their secretive lifestyles mean we know very little about them.

Using Drones to Monitor Tropical Forests in 3 Dimensions

Will forests grow faster, or more efficiently, as atmospheric carbon dioxide increases? Will trees face higher mortality rates as storms and droughts become more common?

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Bouncing Back in a Warming World

We have not given corals enough credit for their resilience and ability to bounce back. Panama's Tropical Eastern Pacific provides a glimpse into the diverse strategies corals are implementing to survive in an increasingly warmer, high CO2 world.

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Which “Eraser” Reigns Supreme?

MCI Postdoctoral Fellow hosts a conservation workshop on the “Dry Cleaning of Soot-Coated Papers”

Unhealthy and dying seedlings in the forests of Panama.

My Life Coach, the Forest

While we often think negatively of plant diseases in the context of agriculture, in a natural forest, disease-causing fungi (fungal pathogens) can promote overall health and diversity.

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