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A January 11 column in the Los Angeles Times favors the Census of Marine Life over the mission to Mars. So do we!

Read our copy of the column (PDF).

Many of the works of our esteemed colleague Cesare Marchetti are
now available on their own site: https://cesaremarchetti.org

PHE investigator Mark Stoeckle is quoted on DNA barcoding
in a vivid if not perfectly accurate article in the San Jose Mercury News.

https://phe.rockefeller.edu/BarcodeConference/articles.html#000243

The New York Times quotes us in an article on stablization of methane emissions.

This is a big week for the Census of Marine Life, highlighted by the release on 23 October of its Baseline Report.

On 16 October the Norwegian Broadcasting Company aired a film from CoML’s June 2003 MIR submersible dives to the mid-Atlantic Ridge, as part of the prime time program ‘Schoedinger’s Cat’. The short Lyd og Video captures the 4,500 meter descent and the animals around.

Thanks to everyone who participated in our conference 9-10 October at The Rockefeller University on “The Next 1000 Years.” The conference inspired us. We are pondering what to do with the many interesting ideas put forward. More news in a few weeks.

With his Sloan hat on, Jesse helped bring the September 11 Digital Archive (https://911digitalarchive.org) into existence. On September 11, 2003 the Library of Congress held a Symposium on “September 11 as History” to reflect on the events and to mark the Library’s first major digital acquisition of September 11, 2001, materials with the addition to its collections of the September 11 Digital Archive. For the press release about the accession visit

https://www.loc.gov/today/pr/2003/03-142.html
, while the Symposium program and eventually its webcast are at

https://www.loc.gov/rr/program/911symposium/
.

The Census of Marine Life, which Jesse has helped develop, is growing fast. The Associated Press has just issued a lively account of some of the nascent field projects.

Our efforts on environmental genomics begin to bear fruit. A “Barcode of Life” project seems likely to proceed based on the just-completed “Banbury II” conference on DNA & taxonomy at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory.

On this site you can Read Mark Stoeckle’s September 2003 Bioscience essay on “Taxonomy, DNA, and the Bar Code of Life” and the “Barcode of Life scientific rationale and strategy” by Mark & Jesse prepared for Banbury. Mark also co-authored the DNA Barcoding Protocol for the Census of Marine Life. For the essential science of barcoding, visit Paul Hebert’s site.