Jesse Ausubel participated in “Looking Back as We Move Forward,” a conference in honor of historian of science Jed Z. Buchwald, at the California Institute of Technology 26-27 April 2019, and contributed a paper on “Microphysics and Macrohistory” to the proceedings. Buchwald is an expert on Maxwell and microphysics.
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Abiotic carbon, subducted biology
Exciting news from the Deep Carbon Observatory:
A press release 22 April 2019 just summarized some highlights from a decade of work on abiotic carbon in the Deep Carbon Observatory:
https://deepcarbon.net/rewriting-textbook-fossil-fuels
Coverage here:
Decade-Long Geology Project Rewrites Origins of Earth’s Methane 22 April 2019 Discover
Our old friend Tommy Gold would be thrilled.
A paper by Peter Barry and Co. in Nature magazine explores what happens when biology meets subduction:
https://deepcarbon.net/could-microbes-be-gatekeepers-earths-deep-carbon
Deep Carbon Observatory abiotic carbon research
A press release summarizes the research of the Deep Carbon Observatory on methane and other hydrocarbons that are not fossil fuels but rather abiotic in origin. Congratulations to Giuseppe Etiope and others who have led the work. Tommy Gold would be happy.
April 22, 2019
Rewriting the textbook on fossil fuels: New technologies help unravel nature’s methane recipes
by Deep Carbon Observatory
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.
Video segment from Juice: How Electricity Explains The World
Jesse was interviewed for the documentary “Juice: How Electricity Explains The World,” and you can watch a brief clip here.
Frontiers issue on barcodes
Our close colleague David Thaler serves as a topic editor for Frontiers in Evolution and Ecology on DNA Barcodes. Please consider a submission. Have a look at: DNA Barcodes: Controversies, Mechanisms and Future Applications.
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.
Nordhaus Nobel recollection
In December 2018 Jesse Ausubel had the privilege and fun of inclusion in the delegation to Stockholm of William Nordhaus for his receipt of a Nobel prize. The occasion stimulated Jesse’s recollection, “Getting to know Bill Nordhaus and Climate: On the occasion of his receipt of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics for the study of the economics of climate change.“
Marine eDNA conference final
Jesse Ausubel, Mark Stoeckle, and Paul Gaffney have completed the Summary Report of the 29-30 November 2018 National Conference on Marine eDNA . A press release also briefly summarizes the report.
Marine eDNA works–let’s get going!
Together with Monmouth University, we hosted the first National Conference on Marine Environmental DNA, November 29-30, 2018. The Conference included approximately 100 American ocean scientists and associated stakeholders, including representatives from academe, federal, state, and local governments, non-governmental organizations concerned with marine environment, and the private sector. The strong sense of the meeting was “eDNA works–let’s get going.” The Conference Final Report and press release summarize the meeting and outline concrete steps forward.