concerns the restoration and renovation of military bunkers 

 for the development of a visitor center and classroom for the 

 Culebra Marine Exhibitions Center. The second project in- 

 volved inventory and monitoring of birds and forest trees in 

 U.S. military bases in Panama. 



The Center for Tropical Forest Science at STRI began the 

 fourth census of the 50 hectare forest plot on Barro Colorado 

 Island began in January 1995; previous censuses were con- 

 ducted in 1982, 1985 and 1990. In Borneo the first census was 

 completed on a 50-hectare plot that contains 1173 species and 

 380,000 stems. A new 50-hectare plot was initiated this year 

 in a high-diversity Amazon forest in area of Yasuni, Ecuador 

 in collaboration with the Catholic University of Ecuador and 

 the Aarhus University of Denmark. 



On May 6, 1995 a new field station was opened in the Carib- 

 bean by a consortium of private partners in Honduras and 

 Switzerland, the Honduras Coral Reef Foundation and a part- 

 nership of STRI and the Honduran government. The solar 

 powered field station provides laboratory and living space for 

 15 scientists and will be the site for studies on coral reefs and 

 other marine habitats, and for an initiative in the sustainable 

 development of fishing and tourism. 



In Africa, the Mpala Research Centre, a collaborative re- 

 search effort between Princeton University, the National Mu- 

 seum of Kenya and the Kenya Wildlife Service, hired its first 

 director, Nicholas Georgiadis, a STRI research affiliate. This 

 unique savannah field station located, in the Laikipia plateau 

 in northcentral Kenya, provides housing and dining facilities 

 for 15 scientists. Director Georgiadis visited Panama this year 

 to formalize links between Mpala and STRI, which adminis- 

 ters the SI interests in this consortium. 



A working plan and cooperative agreement was signed be- 

 tween STRI and Brazil's Federal University of Parana (UFPR). 

 The agreement calls for technical and scientific exchange to re- 

 construct the history of the vegetation and climate since the 

 last glacial epoch, in several regions of Brazil. The STRI pale- 

 oecology team headed by Paul Colinvaux and the UFPR de- 

 partment of Botany headed by Raquel Negrelle will be 

 working together towards the successful completion of the 

 project. 



Several international workshops were held at STRI's Tupper 

 Center this year. From March 20-24, the Technical Meeting of 

 Herbaria of Central America and the Caribbean brought to- 

 gether twenty-six specialists from eight nations and was or- 

 ganized by Mireya Correa, of STRI and the University of 

 Panama, and Rafael Ocampo, of the Centra Agronomico Trop- 

 ical de Investigaciones y Ensenanza (CATIE) in Costa Rica. 

 Seventy-five specialists from around the world gathered at the 

 Tupper Center for the United Nation's Environmental 

 Program's Global Biodiversity Assessment Workshop that 

 was held from June 12-16. 



The U.S. State Department provided seed funding to initi- 

 ate the development of an international travelling exhibit on 

 coral reefs. The exhibit is conceived as a means to increase 

 public awareness of the plight of coral reefs, and is one way in 



which STRI is helping to carry out the objectives of the Inter- 

 national Coral Reef Initiative, in which STRI has an advisory 

 and collaborative role. The exhibit will open at the ATLAPA 

 Convention Center in conjunction with the Eight Inter- 

 national Coral Reef Congress to be held in Panama from June 

 24-29, 1996, cohosted by the University of Panama and STRI. 



The bilingual itinerant exhibit "Parting the Green Cur- 

 tain" continued its travels through its fifth country in Latin 

 America, opening at the Banco Central de Reserva del Peru in 

 Lima, from July through September 1995. The educational 

 exhibit "Imagenes contra el SIDA" opened at the Tupper Cen- 

 ter in December and was subsequently donated to Panama's 

 Ministry of Health to support local HIV/ AIDS prevention 

 education. 



STRI and the University of Panama offered the V Intro- 

 ductory Course in Field Research for biology students held 

 from April 2-11 in the Gigante Peninsula, part of the Barro 

 Colorado Nature Monument. In collaboration with Panama's 

 Ministry of Education (MINEDUC), STRI organized the II 

 Workshop in Marine Environmental Education held from 

 March 27-31, 1995. The workshop supported by a grant from 

 the SI Educational Outreach Fund was attended by 23 middle 

 school teachers from Panama's coastal areas, including a repre- 

 sentative from the San Bias islands. 



Thirty students from the University of Panama and the 

 Azuero Regional University Center participated in the archae- 

 ological excavations at the Cerro Juan Diaz site near the town 

 of Los Santos, directed by STRI staff member Richard Cooke 

 in collaboration with Panama's Institute of Culture. The 

 students' training and participation was supported by a grant 

 from the SI Educational Outreach Fund. 



Secretary I. Michael Heyman and Theresa Heyman visited 

 STRI from February 6-10 to meet the staff and learn about on- 

 going programs. Secretary Heyman and STRI director Ira 

 Rubinoff met Panama's President Ernesto Perez Balladares at 

 Blair House in September. President Perez Balladares pre- 

 sented Heyman with a letter expressing his government's in- 

 tention to continue supporting STRI beyond the year 2000. 



Arts and Humanities 



Anacostia Museum 



Steven Cameron Neu'some. Director 



The Anacostia Museum continued its tradition of increasing 

 public knowledge of the black experience through direct en- 

 gagement with a variety of constituent groups in the develop- 

 ment of exhibitions, public programs, and research projects. 

 The groundbreaking exhibition "Black Mosaic: Community, 

 Race, and Ethnicity among Black Immigrants in Washing- 

 ton, D.C." was the anchor for activities that strengthened the 



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