30th May 2022
Ciudad del Saber, Panama City
The fourth PRISM workshop took place in May 2022. More information will be made available soon. The list of topics covered in the workshop are as follows:
20th to 22nd May 2022
La Manzana, Panama City
URBANAMÁ is a festival envisioned for the exchange of experiences and knowledge on urbanism in Panamá. It is a space for highlighting and debating ideas, projects, and successes that can or have generated a more sustainable, inclusive, and livable city.
31st January 2020
Ciudad del Saber, Panama City
The third PRISM workshop took place in January 2020 and brought together 29 participants from a variety of backgrounds with a shared interest in sustainability and modeling. After a series of updates on projects that were being carried out through the PRISM small grants program, participants split into breakout groups based on broad themes that united ongoing efforts such as mangrove conservation, reforestation, invasion biology, and nutrient cycling. Future directions that would synthesize the groundwork being laid by current PRISM projects were discussed.
Introductory talk on the SWAT hydrological model (Speaker: Brian Leung):
A list of topics covered by the small grants teams follows. Recordings of the talks given by these teams and other materials will be made available on this page soon.
The first BESS intern working with PRISM is Chloé Debyser, who is developing a model of forest patch connectivity in Panama at the national and regional scales with Omar Lopez at INDICASAT and urban planner Ariel Espino respectively. More information on the connectivity project as well as our other projects can be found on the projects page.
BESS is an initiative with NSERC CREATE which seeks to provide training experiences for students of the environmental sciences. You can learn more about BESS here.
25th April 2018
STRI, Panama City
The second PRISM workshop was carried out as a full-day event in April 2018 at the Tupper main campus of the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Panama City.
The first half of the workshop was a series of ten short talks where PRISM collaborators presented their research interests in connection with the PRISM layers. These ten talks were split evenly between (1) existing components of PRISM and (2) identified connections for future exploration.
1. Existing components (speaker name in parentheses):
2. Pre-identified connections:
The second half was then focused on collaboratively identifying priorities for sustainability in Panama. where all attendees were invited to contribute up to three answers each to the prompt of 'What, in your opinion, is the biggest challenge to the development of sustainability in Panama?' All answers were then collated and processed in order to sort out the most common themes, which were as follows:
Attendees then broke out into groups to choose from these themes and have more in depth discussions. The final section of the workshop was run by the attendees in their breakout groups, each group presenting the themes discussed.
July 2018: "The adaptation of road networks to strengthen the use of public transport in the Panama metropolitan area", second report of the Forum and Urban Observatory of Panama. Research funded by SENACYT and conducted by Ariel Espino, general manager of SUMA arquitectos and PRISM co-chair, in collaboration with McGill University and University College London. PDF available in Spanish.
