Area of Research: Oceans
Introducing the International Quiet Ocean Experiment
Sea Technology magazine editorial on eDNA by Stoeckle & Ausubel
The June 2019 issue of Sea Technology Magazine opens with an editorial by Mark Stoeckle and Jesse Ausubel on The eDNA Revolution.
ECO special issue on IQOE
In a special issue on ocean sound, the publication ECO – Environment, Coastal, Offshore published an article Introducing the International Quiet Ocean Experiment. The article is authored by partners in the IQOE program including PHE, SCOR, the Netherlands Organization for Applied Scientific Research, Florida Atlantic University, the University of New Hampshire, the Nansen Environmental and Remote Sensing Center, POGO, and the University of Exeter.
Ocean Policy session on Capitol Hill
13 March 2019 the Consortium for Ocean Leadership (COL) held its annual Public Policy Forum. The topic was U.S. Ocean Policy: Past, Present, and Future, and used as a point of departure the 2004 U.S. Commission on Ocean Policy report An Ocean Blueprint for the 21st Century. Jesse Ausubel led off and moderated the final hour-long session on future ocean policy, videotaped here.
The Forum began with the superb review of the Ocean Commission report by our close colleague and friend VADM (ret.) Paul Gaffney, with whom we have conducted the Monmouth U – Rockefeller U Marine Science and Policy Initiative since 2015.
Quiet Ocean Experiment in Nature magazine
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-01098-6An article in the 11 April 2019 issue of Nature magazine discusses the issue of sound in the ocean and notes the role of the International Quiet Ocean Experiment (IQOE) in studying ocean sound and its effects on marine organisms. PHE has helped conceive and foster the IQOE.
More news is in the March 2019 IQOE Newsletter.
Ocean Sound
An article in the 11 April 2019 issue of Nature magazine discusses the issue of sound in the ocean and notes the role of the International Quiet Ocean Experiment (IQOE) role in studying ocean sound and its effects on marine organisms. PHE helped conceive and has helped foster IQOE.
Science magazine on eDNA conference report
Science magazine runs a helpful story by Alex Fox on the final report from our 29-30 November 2018 National Conference on Marine eDNA:
The ocean is full of drifting DNA. The United States needs to collect it, researchers say
Also, a good new Japanese research paper is published on eDNA:
and in Revelator 27 February 2019
How Do You Protect a Species You Can’t See? For manatees and other hard-to-spot species, the answer may lie in the minute particles of DNA they leave behind as they move through their environments.
CoML Huff Post
The Census of Marine Life appears in a vivid 29 Sept 2018 article in the Huffington Post by Ilana Straus about estimating the number of species.
The Strange Story Behind The Animals We Know We Haven’t Yet Discovered
“The more we look, the more species we find.”
Paul Gaffney article on Ocean Observations
The fall issue of the quarterly magazine of the National Academy of Engineering, The Bridge, reports on Ocean Exploration and its Engineering Challenges Sept 2018 Vol 48(3).
The issue contains several excellent articles, including America’s Ocean Observations: A Perspective, by Paul Gaffney, our partner in the Monmouth University-Rockefeller University Marine Science and Policy Initiative. The article helpfully discusses Mark Stoeckle’s work on eDNA.
Also especially notable are Mapping the World’s Oceans by our frequent collaborator Larry A. Mayer, and Using Noise to Image the Ocean by William A. Kuperman.
These and the other articles relate strongly to our interests in ocean exploration (e.g., the 2016 National Ocean Exploration Forum), The International Quiet Ocean Experiment, and more generally human progress in ocean observation.