Digital Naturalism Laboratories
Institute for Interactive Jungle Crafts
Educational games all about leaf-cutter ants! It covers the life cycles of a colony, how they forage and defend themselves from parasites!
Produced by Digital Naturalism Laboratories for The Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute and the Q Bus.
Development by Brian Boucher, Bilal Cheema, Steven Solof, and Andrew Quitmeyer
Art design by Kitty Quitmeyer
Scientific advising by Dr. Hannah Marti
OTHER GAME TO BE INCORPORATED SOONWe created a CoViD-19 simulation game for Q?-Bus at STRI. The goal is to let people get a better understanding of how diseases spread, and the effectiveness and consequences of different approaches.
Created by Brian Boucher and Andy Quitmeyer for STRI Q-Bus
Amy is an awesome scientific illustrator who has been spending her time in Dinalab making incredible works of art for scientists producing new papers! Check out her insta @dormantseeds and her website https://www.amykoehlerart.com/ to see the incredible stuff she makes!
Cindy works as a researcher for Rachel Page’s bat lab and Wouter Halfwerk’s frog research lab here in Gamboa. She is an incredible, reliable, hard-worker with loads of experience with animals and behavioral experimentation. She is also an amazing cook and has been supplying dinalab with an endless supply of terrific food during quarantine.
She also was responsible for keeping 1000 experimental frogs alive during the pandemic shutdown! She rocks and we will miss her!