Program for the Human Environment

In Chile in early January we visited some of the world’s largest tree plantations as well as the wondrous intact indigenous forest of Isla Mocha. Thanks to Savithri Narayanan for her photo  of this sign “Soy el arbol!!” on a tree in a Chilean park with its true and poetic message (translated into English by Jesse).

Annually the directors of the major bluewater ocean science institutions meet as the Partnership for Observation of the Global Ocean (POGO  http://www.ocean-partners.org ).  On 7 January 2009 Jesse addressed the group about Advances & Challenges in Global Observing Systems for Marine Life drawing on technologies advanced by the Census of Marine Life research program (http://www.coml.org ) .

Caution: the pdf of the 51-slide presentation is 14 MB.

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An opinion piece in the 29 December 2008 Wall Street Journal by William Tucker quotes Jesse’s low view of investments in so-called renewable energy sources from this interview in Weltwoche magazine.