Academic Research Training, and Internship Appointments 



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Tropical Reef Building Corals," with Hector Guzman 

 from October I, 199S to December 31, 1998. 



Andrew Kern, Short-term Visitor, Brown University. "Taxon 

 Cycles of the Lesser Antillean Avifauana," with Eldredge 

 Bermingham from August 30, 1999 to November 30, 

 1999. 



Carmi Korine, Visiring Scientist, Institute of Technology, Is- 

 rael. "The Affect of Growth Form and Life History Traits 

 on Plant Ailometry in a Lowland Tropical Forest," with S. 

 Joseph Wtight from May 1, 1999 to October 31, 1999. 



Margaret B. Kraenzel, Short-term Visitor, McGill Univer- 

 sity, Canada. "Carbon Sequestration by Afforestation of 

 Abandoned Agricultural Land by Teak Plantations in 

 Panama," with Catherine Porvin from June 1, 1999 to 

 August 31, 1999. 



Scott Mangan, Short-term Visitor, University of Wisconsin, 

 Oshkosh. "Do Spotes of Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi 

 Isolated from Scats of 'Proechimys semispinous' Cause 

 Differential Growth Responses in Tropical Tree 

 Seedlings?" with E. Allan Herre from July 1, 1999 to 

 September 30, 1999. 



Juan L. Mate, Visiting Student, University of Miami. "Geo- 

 graphic, Ecological, Genetic and Morphological Variation 

 in 'Pavona' (Cnidaria, Anthozoa) Along the Pacific Coast 

 of Panama," with Nancy Knowlton and Hector Guzman; 

 Luis D'Croz from January 1, 1999 to December 31, 1999. 



Amy Moran, Short-term Visitor, University of Washington. 

 "Egg Size Evolution and Life History Divergence of Trop- 

 ical American Arcid Bivalves," with Hatilaos Lessios from 

 October 1, 1998 to December 31, 1998. 



Geoffrey Morse, Short-term Visitor, Harvard University. 

 "Novel Use in Seed Beetle (Bruchidae: Stator) Lineages: 

 Diet Expansion Versus Host-Mediated Speciation," with 

 Donald Windsor from March 25, 1999 to June 25, 1999. 



Georges A. Pearson, SI Ten-week Graduate Student Fellow, 

 University of Kansas. "North and South American Pale- 



oindian Expansions and Interactions Across the Panaman- 

 ian Doorway," with Richard Cooke from January 4, 1999 

 to March 12, 1999. 



Steven M. Phelps, SI Postdoctoral Fellow, University of 

 Texas. "Categorization and Cognition in the Tungara 

 Frog," with A. Stanley Rand and Michael Ryan from June 

 1, 1999 to January 31, 2000. 



Simon Pierce, Visiting Scientist, University of Durham, 

 United Kingdom. "Photosynthetic Pathways in the 

 Bromeliaceae in Panama: Relations Between Lifeforms, 

 Exposure within the Canopy, Gene Expression and Capac- 

 ity to Tolerate Light and Water Stress," with Howard 

 Griffiths and Klaus Winter from February 1, 1999 to Jan- 

 uary 31, 2001. 



Denise S. Pope, SI Postdoctoral Fellow, Duke University. 

 "Signal Detection Theory and the Structure of Fiddler 

 Crab Displays," with John Christy from November 15, 



1998 to May 14, 2000. 



Oris I. Sanjur, SI Postdoctoral Fellow, Rutgers University. 

 "Genetic Diversity on Natural Populations of 'Cucurbita' 

 Species," with Dolores Piperno and Harilaos Lessios from 

 June 1, 1999 to May 31, 2000. 



Sunshine A. Van Bael, Short-term Visitor, University of Illi- 

 nois, Urbana-Champaign. "Trophic Interactions in Wet 

 and Dry Forests," with S. Joseph Wright from April 15, 



1999 to July 15, 1999. 



Elizabeth Wehncke, Short-term Visitor, Universidad de 

 Buenos Aires, Argentina. "Postdispersal Seed Fate and 

 Consequences of Seed Dispersal Patterns by 'Cebus ca- 

 pucinus' in a Tropical Forest," with James Dalling from 

 February 1, 1999 to April 30, 1999. 



Suzanne Williams, Visiting Scientist, James Cook Univer- 

 sity, Australia. "Using Nuclear Markers to Test for 

 Concordance in Transisthmian Snapping Shrimp," with 

 Nancy Knowlton from December 1, 1998 to November 

 30, 2000. 



Smithsonian Interns in Fiscal Year 1999 



The Smithsonian offers internships and other special appointments to undergraduate and graduate students and to museum 

 professionals. The home institution, a brief description of the project undertaken at the Smithsonian, and the dates of service 

 are given wherever possible. 



Accessibility 



Celine Lalanne BA Candidate Hogskolan Dalarna 3/25/1999 to 4/22/1999 



Guide about accessible museums for visually impaired and blind visitors. 



Anacostia Museum and Center for African American History and Culture 



BA Candidate Howard University 9/16/1999 to 12/31/1999 



Working under Deb Willis, curator of the African American History and Culture exhibits. 



Rayna Smith 



Architectural History and Historic Preservation 



Joshua Barkan 



BA University of Arizona 4/12/1999 106/18/1999 



Research on Adolf Cluss, and the Arrs and Industries Building, looking primarily at European in- 

 fluences, during 1847 in Paris and Brussels. 



