Steve Paton

Steve Paton

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Steve Paton is a climatologist who heads the physical monitoring program for the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Panama. He has studied the impact of changing weather patterns on Panama's climate, particularly in relation to the increasing frequency of droughts affecting the Panama Canal.

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Steve Paton explained that the current El Niño episode is one of the strongest recorded in at least the last century.

El agro panameño enfrenta los desafíos de un El Niño más intenso
La Prensa – leading Panamanian daily, est. 1980·PanamaPanama· 2026-09-13
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Steve Paton heads the physical monitoring program for the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Panama.

Trump wants to reclaim the Panama Canal. He’d be taking on a waterway facing crisis
CNN·United StatesUnited States· 2025-02-21
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