Here’s a very average photograph of the forest floor in Panama. Do you notice anything out of the ordinary? There is a splash of red color towards the bottom left of the image – look closer. This is the midsection of a coral snake (Micrurus sp.), a species which moves underneath the leaf litter and…

I took my third trip through the Panama Canal earlier this week. Our lab is here for research, so we are heavily laden with equipment and materials for tree measurements. Here you can see us wrestling our luggage onto a small boat in Gamboa, preparing for our journey through the canal Our boat navigated past…