Gowanus eDNA

…surprisingly diverse DNA evidence–19 fish species–in the Canal, including the endangered shortnose sturgeon. The project is featured on Gowanus Dredgers Canoe Club Instagram page The summary slide is also here….

Sewage archives

…practicalities, of implementing this type of biological archiving in a 2021 article in BMC Infectious Diseases, Archiving time series sewage samples as biological records of built environments.  While interest in 2021, centers…

Jesse Ausubel to receive 2022 Nierenberg Prize

Jesse Ausubel will be honored with the 2022 Nierenberg Prize for Science in the Public Interest. This award is presented annually by Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego…

Video of Jesse’s Nierenberg Prize lecture on “Peak Human?”

In this 54″ video made 13 October, 2022 Jesse Ausubel, awarded the 2022 Nierenberg Prize for Science in the Public Interest, discusses whether the human species can continue to improve—much…

The Scientific Enterprise

…post-doctoral research associates on “science diplomacy,” which seeded The Rockefeller University’s Hurford Foundation Initiative on Science and Diplomacy. For recent curricula visit 20222021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015. PHE also helps organize the University’s Insight Lecture…