Wake Forest University undergraduate Karina Macosko asks Jesse about climate change, counting fish, and other subjects of his work in a 15-minute video interview.
Area of Research: Aquatic environmental DNA (eDNA)
Coverage of eDNA & trawl study
Plenty of fish in the sea? Scientists can now count them using DNA
ABC News “One liter of ocean water can not only unlock the recent presence of dozens of species — it can also reveal the relative number of these fish.” https://abcnews.go.com/Technology/plenty-fish-sea-scientists-now-count-dna/story?id=74543799 and in French, here, and in German, here
Science Magazine, United States Fisheries in a flask? Loose DNA in seawater offers a new measure of marine populations
Agencia EFE, Spain El análisis del ADN ambiental permite saber el número de peces de los océanos https://www.infobae.com/america/agencias/2020/12/03/el-analisis-del-adn-ambiental-permite-saber-el-numero-de-peces-de-los-oceanos/
Tencent, Mainland China “New discovery by American scientists: by measuring the DNA in the sea water, you can know how many fish there are in the sea”
COSMOS Magazine, Australia Scientists go fishing for fish DNA-fish-dna/
Anthropocene How many fish are in the sea?
From the Chinese Academy of Sciences / China Science News: New method for marine biological population prediction
Greenreport, Italy Quanti pesci ci sono in mare? Ce lo dice l’eDNA
Seafood Source Cheaper, easier eDNA testing shows similar results to bottom-trawl surveys
Neue Zuricher Zeitung Find what escapes the eye: A new research approach is revolutionizing large parts of biology. Traces of genetic material in the environment provide information about hidden living organisms together with composition of entire species communities, Kurt De Swaaf
Mark Stoeckle’s video talk on eDNA to POGO virtual conference
The recorded plenary talks from POGO’s International Virtual Conference on the use of Environmental DNA (eDNA) in Marine Environments: Opportunities and Challenges can be found here.
A direct link to Mark’s 19-minute talk “Trawl and eDNA assessment of marine fish in coastal New Jersey USA” is here.
Fish abundance survey by eDNA published
The paper Trawl and eDNA assessment of marine fish diversity, seasonality, and relative abundance in coastal New Jersey, USA by Mark Stoeckle, Jason Adolf, Zachary Charlop-Powers, Keith Dunton, Gregory Hinks, and Stacy VanMorter appears today open access in the Journal of Marine Science. A press release summarizes the findings: “Study Proves Bits of DNA in Seawater Correlate to the Weight of Netted Fish; eDNA makes the ocean a sea of biological information.”
Trawl and eDNA assessment of marine fish diversity, seasonality, and relative abundance in coastal New Jersey, USA.
Mark Stoeckle on marine eDNA in Popular Science
Scientists are tracking down deep sea creatures with free-floating DNA
Bits of genetic code in seawater can help scientists study fish that we rarely see. article in Popular Science by Kat Eschner published November 5, 2020
15-minute video interview with Jesse Ausubel
The new website Academic Influence, led by Wake Forest U. physicist Jed Macosko, conducted a video interview with Jesse Ausubel about his career.
History of Marine Census in Inverse magazine
How an absurd idea led to the most definitive census of life under the sea ever…UK journalist Grace Browne published an article about the history of the Census of Marine Life program in the on-line magazine Inverse drawing on an interview with Jesse Ausubel.
Yeti crab inspires Pokemon
Brazilian crustacean experts Rafael Rosa, Daniel Cavallari & Ana Vera-Silva suggest that the abominable Yeti crab discovered by the Census of Marine Life and described in 2006 by Macpherson, Jones & Segonzac inspired the Pokémon figure Crabominable in their wonderful article in the Journal of Geek Studies, Pokécrustacea: the crustacean-inspired Pokémon.
eDNA featured in Martha’s Vineyard Times article
An excellent article by Sam Moore in the Martha’s Vineyard Times and its magazine Edible Vineyard feature Jesse Ausubel’s views and his collection of eDNA at the Inkwell Beach in Oak Bluffs and elsewhere on the Island.
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