On April 17, 2016 Jesse delivered a lecture The Nature of the City at the University of Glasgow as part of a workshop “Future cities: Do cities have limits?“
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Deep Carbon Observatory videos
The Deep Carbon Observatory, which Jesse Ausubel has helped create and manage, offers some new short, enjoyable videos about its work. For example,
Reviews of The Seasons
Galatee’s The Seasons, on which Jesse Ausubel served as a science advisor, earns good reviews.
Review: The Nature Documentary ‘Seasons’ Looks at Land Animals New York Times
‘Seasons’ takes a visually dazzling journey into the animal kingdom Los Angeles Times –
‘Seasons‘ takes a gorgeous, unfiltered look at the animal kingdom Washington Post–Nov 22, 2016
Community College Research Center 20th anniversary with Jill Biden
During 1996, on behalf of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, Jesse Ausubel helped Prof. Thomas Bailey establish the Community College Research Center at Teachers College. The influential center celebrated its 20th anniversary on 17 November 2016 with a symposium highlighted by a talk by Dr. Jill Biden, 2nd Lady of the USA and professor at Northern Virginia Community College. For Jesse’s role, please watch minutes 10 to 18 of this video:
https://livestream.com/teacherscollegecolumbiauniversity/CCRC20
Below are TC President Susan Fuhrman, Prof. Bailey, Prof. Biden, Anne Ausubel (who worked at TC during the late 1960s and early 1970s), and Jesse Ausubel.
Dutch life hours worked
“The reduction in life hours of work since 1850: estimates for Dutch males” by Jaap de Koning follows the 1995 paper by Jesse Ausubel and Arnulf Gruebler Working less and living longer: Long-term trends in working time and time budgets.
de Koning finds the number of hours Dutchmen work during their lives gradually diminished. Men born in 1840 worked on average 118 thousands hours, while it is only 67 thousands hours for the 1950 cohort. As a percent of total number of hours available to a man, the decline is from 23% for the 1840 birth cohort to 9%for the 1950 birth cohort. The finding resembles what Jesse and Arnulf found for American males. Technology lifts productivity and lengthens lives, and the changed ratio of work to life explains many of the benefits and worries of modern societies.
Robert Ballard talk at National Ocean Exploration Forum 2016
Dr. Robert Ballard’s inspiring speech about ocean exploration begins at the 16-minute mark in this video from the 2016 National Ocean Exploration Forum held at the Rockefeller University 20-21 October.
We also post the Op-ed for the Marine Technology Society by VADM Gaffney (ret.) summarizing the findings of the 2016 National Ocean Exploration Forum.
National Ocean Exploration Forum
A Press Release describes recent discoveries by ocean explorers and the 2016 National Ocean Exploration Forum, organized by Jesse Ausubel (Rockefeller University) and Paul Gaffney (Monmouth University). Thanks to the 110 participants and for great preparation by Alan Curry, Doris Manville, Karl Vilacoba, and Danica Simmons.
News reports of the recent discoveries:
Remotely operated vehicles expand reach for ocean researchers
WorkBoat (blog)–Oct 20, 2016
“A lot of the difficulty with ocean exploration since Ulysses is we move slowly at sea,” said Jesse Ausubel, director of the Program for the Human …
Strange purple sea creatures found in deep ocean trenches
BBC News–Oct 20, 2016
500 ‘Champagne’ Methane Seeps Discovered Off Pacific Coast
Live Science–Oct 20, 2016
Methane leak along the West Coast that could contribute to global …
Daily Mail–Oct 20, 2016
There’s an Enormous Natural Gas Seep Along the West Coast
Gizmodo India–15 hours ago
Animation of eruptions, earthquakes, emissions
Deep Carbon Observatory researchers have created an eye-popping animation that shows volcanic eruptions, earthquakes, and associated emissions since 1960…and reveals the seamy structure of the Earth. See the press release about Exhaling Earth and the 70-second E3 animation.
Coverage includes
Washington Post
Watch Earth pulse with earthquakes and eruptions in this stunning visualization
Daily Mail
Global system could help predict cataclysmic supervolcano eruptions
BBC
Volcano insight: Fifty years of eruptions revealed
EFE
Una aplicación compila todas las erupciones volcánicas desde 1960
ANSI
Eruzioni e terremoti, 50 anni di dati in un’app
New York Times
What 50 Years of Earthquakes and Volcanic Eruptions Look Like
Congratulations to Liz Cottrell, Tobias Fischer, Marie Edmonds and Co. on super science!
Shirshov lecture on eDNA
The slides from Jesse Ausubel’s lecture on
Marine biodiversity revealed by extracellular DNA in seawater
are posted at the site of the conference celebrating the 70th birthday of Russia’s Shirshov Institute of Oceanology. Thanks to Mark Stoeckle, who leads PHE’s eDNA work.
Seasons USA theatre release schedule
Distributor Music Box Films has posted the release schedule in USA theatres of the new Jacques Perrin documentary film about forests and forest fauna, The Seasons. Here is a photo with Kathleen Townsend, Jacques Perrin, and Jesse Ausubel at the dinner in honor of the film at the home of the French ambassador in Washington DC.
See also the earlier entries below.