BIOLOGY TEAM
We are the pioneers spearheading Kalu Yala’s growth into the Valley and beyond. We will be working on specifically defined Biology projects involving Biological Field Research, Water Systems, and temporary agriculture in the Kalu Yala valley.
Our species needs, and deserves, a citizenry with minds wide awake and a basic understanding of how the world works.
- Carl Sagan
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You Want To Get Up At What Time??
Biology intern Terra Filmer describes taking people on bird watching and nature tours in the Kalu Yala valley.
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Tags: Amanda Rosenberg, bird-watching, black vulture, coffee, common paraque, Gasun Han, golden-collard manakin, Kalu Yala, leaf-cutter ants, nature walks, ornithology, Shelby Jordan, squirrel monkeys, Terra Filmer
The Natural Laboratory & Science Education
First for some theory, then for some fun. In my last blog post, I raised the suggestion that as a community, it would be more valuable for us to be confused, and somewhat uncomfortable, by the connections between our data than interpret them according to a predetermined set of expected relationships. As scientists of the [...]
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Tags: Courtney Frazee, David Deutsch, Instrumentalism, Kalu Yala, science education
The Tempo Of Places
One of my favorite Radiolab episodes – “Cities” – explores how certain cities get their individual personalities. The hosts begin with a basic conceit: there’s no scientific metric for measuring a city’s personality. So much of the human-scale details that determine an individual experience within an urban center are left to chance. But two physicists [...]
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Tags: city planning, Courtney Frazee, Kalu Yala, Radiolab, time
You Want Panama, You Got It!
Terra's video takes you on an adventure with a spanish speaking parrot, hitch hiking footage, strange food and creatures, and much more.
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Tags: boat ride, colleagues, Food, Friends, Gasun Han, hitch hiking, Kalu Yala, spanish speaking parrot, strange creatures, Terra Filmer
The Power of Tools
If there is one thing my Dad loves it is tools. Walk into his shop and you are guaranteed to find any tool to suit your need. This was great growing up because it enabled me to build, and bring things from my imagination into reality, whether that be a deck chair, a new handle for a [...]
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Tags: agriculture, Basecamp, Chainsaw, construction, forestry
How Ultimate Frisbee Explains the World We Want To Build
Kalu Yala knows me as a Biology team intern, but I also moonlight as an Ultimate Frisbee addict. Before arriving in Panama, I joked about bringing some discs down with me, distributing them throughout my travels, and teaching locals about a new game called “Courtney.” Fortunately (or unfortunately, given my plans for inclusion in the [...]
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Tags: Courtney Frazee, Frisbee, sports, ultimate
Leading with your Fork in Nature Exploration
The concept of what is natural is culturally based and is ever shifting. Our act of manipulating nature has been driven by our demand for food. Our landscapes reflect and dictate what is on our forks. We have tools, both technical and ideological, that can enable us to considerably improve landscapes. The transfer of food is the connection they have with one another. We have this with the earth and its diverse energy supplies. Whether you explore, pick, or vote with your fork…it matters.
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Tags: Food, Fork, John Dixon Hunt, Natural, nature, PANAMA, Wendell Berry
Forest Ecology, Agroforests, and Campesinos?
In their 2011 paper ”The tree planting and protecting culture of cattle ranchers and small-scale agriculturalists in rural Panama: Opportunities for reforestation and land restoration” Garen et al. explored the reasons why cattle ranchers and small scale farmers in Panama have maintained a tradition since pre-European contact of both planting and protecting valuable multipurpose trees and shrubs on the land [...]
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Tags: agriculture, Agroforests, Campesinos, trees
Changes of Pace
A look at the cultural differences between Americans and Panamanians attitudes towards time.
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Tags: Cultural Immersion, Kalu Yala, Latin America, time