Program for the Human Environment

Naked DNA in Seawater was the subject of Jesse Ausubel’s 17 May evening talk at the Lower East Side Girls Club for the BioBus.  For some photos and a link to his 30-minute talk visit here.

“Density: Key to Fake and True News About Energy and Environment” was the subject of Jesse Ausubel’s centennial address to the meeting of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists, Houston Convention Center, 4 April 2017. Published in AAPG’s Search and Discovery, as contribution #70272, 28 June 2017.

PHE researcher Iddo Wernick co-authored a recent article, Comparative LCA of concrete with natural and recycled coarse aggregate in the New York City area, published in The International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment. Congratulations to the main co-authors, professors Ardavan Yazdanbakhsh and Larry Bank and student Thomas Baez, in the Department of Civil Engineering at City College of New York.

We post the polished text of Jesse Ausubel’s 2016 lecture on The Nature of the City.

For more information see What’s New entries from 19 December 2016

https://phe.rockefeller.edu/news/blog/2016/12/19/glasgow-talk/

and 4 March 2016

https://phe.rockefeller.edu/news/blog/2016/03/04/glasgow-cities-lecture/.

Thanks again to Prof. Colin McInnes of the University of Glasgow.

Shown here are PHE members Jesse, Doris, Mark and Alan during a tour of the new addition to the Rockefeller University campus, the River Campus.  Thanks to Alex Kogan, Rockefeller University’s Associate VP of Facilities.

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).

June 27, 2017 6pm

put on your calendar!

West Tisbury Library

Naked DNA in My Water

. . . 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:

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.

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.

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