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Science magazine 1 August ran an Op-Ed by Mande Holford and Rod Nichols, with whom Jesse teaches The Rockefeller University course on Science & Diplomacy.

Galatee’s Oceans film featured a haunting song by Bruno Coulais with lyrics by Gabriel Yacoub.  The song with images from the film is at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x3K1GnGEmPo

Ocean Will Be

Even though voices be quiet
Slumbering in deep-sea trenches
One can hear a rumbling thunder
Merging into the endless skies
Dancing for joy
In a wind of splendor
That will keep blowing
Forever more
Crawling through waves, pebbles and seaweed
Entwined amongst the sand
Shades of the unknown with no equation
Shells on the wasteland
From the floor of the ocean, fathoms of greatness,
A place where no man can be
The truth of the ocean
The open space
Light out, wanderlust
Forever more
Restless souls of sailors of days gone-by
Keep Wandering in liquid peace
Deep in the dark, plowing the sea
Reach out to eternity
And none of them will call the beasts
Other than by their own true name
The widow will wait
For the sun to come out
The ocean will be
Forever more
Ancient monsters, fairy fish
Will arise from the dawn of time
Some of them threatened
Some extinct, dissolved in mystery
Shipwrecks and prayers
Banners of old
Storms and man
Forever more
Ancient monsters, fairy fish
Will arise from the dawn of time
Some of them threatened
Some extinct, dissolved in mystery
Many more will be spared
To tell the endless tale of water and man
Of giving and taking, teaching and learning
Of hunters and of prey
Dancing for joy
In a wind of splendor
That will be blowing
Forever more

The new 18″ video “Perspectives on Ocean Exploration” includes comments by Jesse Ausubel as well as Robert Ballard, Sylvia Earle, Paul Gaffney, Walter Munk, and others. Jerry Schubel of the Aquarium of the Pacific led the preparation of the video, aimed at school programs and other groups unfamiliar with ocean exploration.

Jacques Perrin’s environmental films will be featured 21-24 May 2015 at a festival organized by the Vineyard Conservation Society and Martha’s Vineyard Film Society.  Jesse Ausubel will do Q&A after the great film Oceans on the 21st and 24th.

Good articles about the festival appeared in the Martha’s Vineyard Times and the Vineyard Gazette.

In March 2006 we helped with the Washington DC festival in honor of the films of Jacques Perrin.

The Return of Nature, a lightly edited version of Jesse Ausubel’s Nature Rebounds SALT talk, has been published in The Breakthrough Journal.

A pdf version of the paper with more figures and photos, titled “Nature Rebounds”, can be found here.

Thanks to editors Dale Langford and Jenna Mukono, to Iddo Wernick for careful work on the figures, and to Michael Shellenberger and Ted Nordhaus for Breakthrough’s hospitality.

Jesse Ausubel’s short essay,Methane Hydrates and the Deep Carbon Observatory, about the recently published Frozen Heat report, has been posted on the DCO website.

The American Geosciences Institute (AGI) released the short report from the November 2014 Fort Worth meeting on America’s Increasing Reliance on Natural Gas: Benefits and Risks of a Methane Economy.  Jesse Ausubel served on the organizing committee, chaired by Chris Cameron.

 

 

The 23 February 2015 New Yorker magazine features the acoustic company of our long-time research associate, Perrin Meyer, in a fascinating article about controlling sonic microenvironments, such as individual tables in restaurants, in Wizards of Sound.