MILWAUKEE — Stefan Schnitzer wields an unusual instrument for a scientist — a machete.

Schnitzer, of the School of Freshwater Sciences at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, studies woody vines in the tropical forests of Panama — work that has him traipsing through the forest and hacking away at vines to study the impact of their growth on the trees around them.

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