Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Panamá STRI news www.stri.si.edu September 30, 2011 Gamboa seminar Elisabeth Klara Viktoria No Gamboa seminar Kalko (1962-2011) scheduled for Monday, Elisabeth K.V. Kalko, STRI Ulm in Germany. She was also rd October 3 . The next Gamboa staff scientist and head of the research associate with the seminar will be presented by Institute of Experimental American Museum of Natural Alex Trillo on Monday Ecology at the University of History (AMNH). Since then October 10th . If you wish to Ulm in Germany, died in her she published about 100 give a Gamboa seminar, please sleep on Monday, September articles with STRI, and brought contact Stuart Dennis at 26 during a visit to the a great number of students to [email protected] Kilimanjaro project of the do bat research on Barro German Research Foundation Colorado and other sites of the (DFG) in Tanzania. Eli's country. In 2006 Kalko was sudden death was completely awarded for best university Tupper seminar unexpected as everything teaching in natural sciences Tuesday, October 4, 4pm seemed to be fine the evening (Landeslehrpreis) in the state Tupper seminar speaker will before. The cause of her death of Baden-Württemberg, be Scott Mangan, University of is still unknown. She is survived Germany. The award was in Wisconsin, Milwaukee by parents Jürgen and part granted as a recognition Plant-soil feedbacks and the Rosemarie Kalko, her brother for her research conducted maintenance Joachim and partner professor with her students at STRI. ecology, echolocation and bat of diversity in a tropical Marco Tschapka, all residing in behavior. forest Germany. Kalko was a member of the German National Committee In his message to the STRI Kalko obtained a first degree in on Global Change Research community, director Eldredge biology from the Universität (2002-2011), and was elected Bermingham expressed deep Paleo-Talk Tübingen in Germany, for life to the Heidelberg regrets for losing “A close Please check the STRI followed by a doctorate in Academy of Sciences (2006). friend and one of the most announcements for 1991. She held a NATO From 2005-2011, she served as passionate, intelligent and information on the next Paleo- post-doc at SI´s National vice-president of the Society of productive scientists in our talk. Museum of Natural History in Tropical Ecology, and from community and among bat Washington, DC, and STRI. 2008 on she was a member of researchers worldwide...” Her She worked on the DFG the Senate Commission on study areas covered temperate Bambi seminar programs on tropical diversity Biodiversity of the German zones, particularly Europe, and and Neotropical bats, and a Research Foundation (DFG). the tropics, mainly Central- and Thursday, October 6, Bambi Heisenberg postdoc in The same year, Kalko became South America (Panama, Costa seminar speaker will be Justin Tübingen. head elect of Diversitas Rica, Mexico, Venezuela, C. Touchon, NSF&STRI Germany. As editor-in-chief of Bolivia, Peru) and Africa Measuring selection on At STRI, Kalko joined as the international tropical (Tanzania, Benin, Ivory Coast, aquatic and terrestrial research associate, and in 1999, ecology journal Ecotropica, she Ghana.) reproduction in a she was appointed staff strengthened the journal's Neotropical treefrog scientist. Since 2000, she held a profile considerably. During the STRI will hold a memorial joint appointment as director early 2000's, she was one of the event in the near future. If you and full professor at the most prominent experts in the wish, send your comments to Institute of Experimental areas of bat community [email protected] Ecology at the University of Elisabeth K.V. Kalko, científica de STRI y directora del Instituto Arrivals de Ecología Experimental en la Tiffany Troxler, Florida Universidad de Ulm en International University, to Alemania, falleció mientras dormía, el lunes 26 de quantify relationships between septiembre, durante una visita al resource heterogeneity and proyecto de Kilimanjaro de la plant community structure in a Fundación de Investigaciones de coastal freshwater swamp of Alemania (DFG) en Tanzania. Panama, at the Bocas Station. La repentina muerte de Eli fue completamente inesperada, ya Eva McClure, University of que todo parecía estar bien la Queensland, Australia, to lead noche anterior. Aún se the project “Monitoring the desconoce la causa de su Coral reefs of Panama - muerte. Sus principales deudos Research, Education and son sus padres, Jürgen y Awareness,” at Bocas del Toro, Rosemarie Kalko, su hermano Galeta and Naos. Joachim, y su compañero, el profesor Marco Tschapka, todos Sandra P. Galeano, Lousiana residentes en Alemania. State University, to study the Kalko obtuvo una licenciatura ecological consequences of en biología de la Universidad de genetic diversity in the Tubingen en Alemania, donde polymorphic frog Oophaga también obtuvo su doctorado en pumilio: Implications at the 1991. Con fondos de la North community level, at Bocas. Atlantic Treaty Organization The bat community worldwide is tagging/planting (NATO) trabajó en el Museo de ficus trees to honor Elisabeth throughout the Boris Javanovic, Iowa State Historia Natural del Neotropics. Ficus were central to Eli's heart - and University, to study the effect Smithsonian en Washington, y to the fig-eating bats that she loved. en STRI. También desarrolló of titanium dioxide nano- La comunidad mundial de estudiosos de particles on coral bleaching, proyectos con la DFG sobre murciélagos dedicarán o plantarán árboles de stress responses and immune diversidad tropical y murciélagos Ficus en honor a Elisabeth a través del Neotrópico. Eli amaba estos árboles, así como a los gene expression, at Bocas del del Neotrópico, así como un postdoctorado Heisenberg en murciélagos que se alimentaban de ellos. Toro and Naos. Tubingen. Sesangari Galván Quesada, En STRI, Kalko fue recibida Elisabeth Kalko in Costa Rica, 2011 Universidad Michoacana de San como investigadora asociada, y Kalko era miembro del Comité Photo: Marco Tschapka Nicolas de Hidalgo, to join the en 1999 fue nombrada Nacional de Alemania para “Historical Biogeography of científica permanente. A partir Investigaciones sobre el Cambio En su mensaje a la comunidad de STRI, el director, Eldredge Mesoamerica” project, at Naos de 2000 compartió su posición Climático (2002-2011), fue Bermingham expresó su Island Laboratories. en STRI, como profesora y elegida miembro vitalicio de directora del Instituto de Academia Heidelberg de profundo dolor por haber Ciencias en 2006 y vice- perdido "una amiga cercana, y Neal Benjamin, Scripps, David Ecología Experimental en la presidenta de la Sociedad de una de las científicas más Kline, David Kriegman Avital Universidad de Ulm en Ecología Tropical de 2006-2011. apasionadas, inteligentes y Treubitz, Oscar Beijborn and Alemania. También era En 2008 también fue elegida productivas de nuestra Paul Roberts, University of investigadora asociada del comunidad y de los Museo de Historia Natural de miembro de la Comisión del California, San Diego, to study Senado para la Biodiversidad de investigadores de murciélagos en computer vision coral ecology, los EU. Desde entonces el mundo entero..." Sus áreas de contribuyó con cerca de 100 la DFG, y directora de at Bocas del Toro. Diversitas, Alemania. estudio se extendieron en zonas publicaciones científicas y templadas, particularmente Jean Pol Vigneron, Annick Bay atrajo a un gran número de Europa, y los trópicos, estudiantes alemanes a estudiar Como editora en jefe de la and Priscilla Simonis, University revista internacional de ecología principàlmente en Centro y of Namur, Belgium, to conduct murciélagos en Barro Colorado Suramérica (Panamá, Costa Rica, y otros puntos del país. En tropical, Ecotropica, fortaleció an X-ray nanotomography considerablemente el perfil de la México, Venezuela, Bolivia, 2006 Elisabeth recibió el Perú) y Africa (Tanzania, Benin, investigation of the physical revista. Durante la primera premio por excelencia en Costa de Marfil, Ghana). mechanism of color change in enseñanza superior en ciencias década de 2000, se convirtió en Neotropical tortoise beetles una de las expertas más naturales del estado de STRI tendrá un evento en (Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae), at prominentes en las áreas de Baden-Württemberg, en memoria de Elisabeth en un ecología de comunidades de Tupper. Alemania, en parte por sus futuro cercano. Si desea, puede murciélagos, ecolocación y investigaciones junto con sus enviar sus mensjaes a comportamiento de murciélagos. estudiantes en Panamá. [email protected] More arrivals Climate Jacques Pasteels, University of change on Brussels, Belgium, to to conduct an X-ray nanotomography BCI investigation of the physical A select audience attended the mechanism of color change in conference given by staff Neotropical tortoise beetles scientist Helene Muller-Landau (Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae), at on Wednesday, September 28, Tupper. at the Tupper Center Auditorium. The conference Teia Schweizer, University of was offered as part of the California, Irvine, to study activities to celebrate the predator foraging behavior, in centennial of Smithsonian Gamboa. science on the Isthmus of Jeanette Hofstee, California Panama. State University, to study biased evolutionary transitions in mode Muller-Landau, who spoke of development: Can about the variations in the differences in morphology and weather on Barro Colorado digestive function be linked to Island, showed intriguing evolvability of gastropod graphics on how the weather development?