We post Jesse Ausubel’s centennial address to the American Association of Petroleum Geologists (AAPG). The address, Density: Key to Fake and True News about Energy and Environment, will appear in the AAPG’s Search and Discovery, as contribution #70272 (2017).
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Video of Some Adventures in Urban Barcoding Keynote Address
Keynote address by Jesse at the Urban Barcode Project and Urban Barcode Research Program Symposium, hosted by the DNA Learning Center, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory at the New York Academy of Medicine, New York, May 25th 2017.
Vineyard Conservation Society eDNA lecture
June 27, 2017 6pm
put on your calendar!
West Tisbury Library
. . . including Tisbury Great Pond and Look Pond
by Jesse H. Ausubel
p.s.
The Martha’s Vineyard Gazette ran a good article about Jesse’s talk:
As did the Martha’s Vineyard Times: https://www.mvtimes.com/2017/08/02/fishing-for-dna/
eDNA at BioBus
Naked DNA in Seawater was the subject of Jesse Ausubel’s 17 May evening at the Lower East Side Girls Club for the BioBus. For some photos and a link to his 30-minute talk visit here.
Leonardo DNA Project in National Geographic
Leonardo DNA Project in the news
The Leonardo DNA Project features on pages 49 and 54-55 of Claudia Kalb’s article about genius in the May 2017 issue of National Geographic magazine.
Elga Daifa published on article about the Leonardo DNA Project in the Greek edition of People magazine: https://www.peoplegreece.com/article/spazontas-ton-kodika-tou-dna-tou-leonardo-da-vinci-nees-apokalipsis-gia-ton-efevreti-ke-zografo-enigma/
Sarah Cascone writes about the project in ArtNet news
Cracking the Real da Vinci Code: Meet the Scientist Who Is Mapping Leonardo’s DNA
Sam Munson published an interview with Jesse Ausubel about the Leonardo DNA Project in the Octavian Report: https://octavianreport.com/article/jesse-ausubel-leonardo-genome/
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Fishing for DNA paper published
The new PHE paper “Aquatic Environmental DNA Detects Seasonal Fish Abundance and Habitat Preference in an Urban Estuary” by Mark Stoeckle, Lyubov Soboleva, and Zachary Charlop-Powers appears tpday in PLOS ONE. The DOI is: 10.1371/journal.pone.0175186
Congratulations to Mark, Lyubov and Zach!
A press release describes the work.
Coverage:
New York One TV 2-minute video
Fish Tracked From DNA ‘Finprints’ Left in Waters off New York U.S. News & World Report – Alister Doyle – Reuters
El ADN residual puede revolucionar el conocimiento de las …W Radio-EFE – Julio Rivas –Durante seis meses, los científicos recolectaron el ADN residual, denominado …
US scientists track fish migration using DNA in water samples Breitbart News
BBC World Service Radio (Science in Action, starts at the 47 sec. mark, 5 1/2 minutes): https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p04yxshm#play
A 40 sec. clip is also posted here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p04zzxsh
https://www.flyfisherman.com/news/edna-bread-crumbs-track-migrating-fish/
Smithsonian magazine How teeny bits of leftover DNA help scientists track elusive species
Oleg Vasiliev in memoriam
Oleg Vasiliev, distinguished hydrologist and chief of the Resources and Environment group for whom Jesse Ausubel worked 1979-1980 at IIASA, passed away 7 March 2017. Jesse offers a Memorial Tribute posted on the IIASA alumni page. Scroll past Bruce Beck’s tribute to reach Jesse’s.
Sea Secrets lecture in Miami on eDNA
Jesse Ausubel speaks at the U. of Miami on 6 April 2017 about naked DNA in seawater, the subject of a forthcoming paper by PHE’s Mark Stoeckle et al.
Centennial meeting of petroleum geologists
Jesse Ausubel speaks in Houston at the 4 April 2017 session of the centennial meeting of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists on the next 100 years of energy use.
eDNA detects springtime arrival of fish in NY harbor
Results published April 12, 2017! Stoeckle MY, Soboleva L, Charlop-Powers Z. Aquatic environmental DNA detects seasonal fish abundance and habitat preference in an urban estuary. PLOS ONE 2017:e0175186 open access link
