Mark Stoeckle, Paul Waggoner, and Jesse have prepared a 2-page brochure about ten reasons for DNA barcoding of species.

http://phe.rockefeller.edu/BarcodeConference/docs/TenReasonsBarcoding.pdf

On 22 June Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web, received the first Millennium Technology Prize [www.technologyawards.org] (1 million Euros) in Helsinki. Jesse was one of the speakers at the accompanying symposium. His remarks on Big Green Energy Machines were reported in the main Finnish newspaper Helsingin Sanomat [part 1, [part 2]. We thank Pekka Kauppi for a translation to English. The Suomen Kuvalehti (”Newsweek in Finland”) also ran a story that highlights both ZEPPs and the Continental Supergrid [part 1, part 2].

Big Green Energy Machines: Text (pdf), and Slides (powerpoint)

Sir John Browne, Chairman and CEO of BP, spoke on the record at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York on Thursday 24 June about global warming “Beyond Kyoto.” Jesse moderated the meeting. Mr. Browne’s remarks are notable for accepting a limit or threshold for warming of 2.0 centigrade and for atmospheric concentration of 500-550 parts per million. Mr. Browne’s remarks are at

http://www.cfr.org/pub7148/john_browne/beyond_kyoto.php

The new Arctic project of the Census of Marine Life is in the news today. A selection of articles/interviews can be found at
http://www.coml.org/medres/medres1.htm. The story was covered by all the big media outlets — BBC, CNN International, AP, ABC News–, made it into print in ten nations, and was reported in English, Japanese, French, and Spanish.

Jesse’s brief speech in Spanish to the first South American workshop for
the Census of Marine Life has appeared in the Chilean journal Gayana. We also offer Jesse’s English translation.

Gayana’s transcript [Spanish, with English translation]: http://phe.rockefeller.edu/PDF_FILES/Jesse_H._Ausubel.PDF
Jesse’s English translation: http://phe.rockefeller.edu/PDF_FILES/comlconcepcionjha.pdf

We post the text and figures of the talk “The Heart of Energy Evolution” that Jesse presented to the Nuclear Energy Assembly of the Nuclear Energy Institute in New Orleans on 21 May.

Text: http://phe.rockefeller.edu/PDF_FILES/NEIrevision11june04.pdf
Figures: http://phe.rockefeller.edu/PDF_FILES/neigraphics11junerevision.ppt