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.
News
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
LogletLab 4
Version 4 of our LogletLab software has been released and can be accessed at www.logletlab.com. LogletLab software is designed to help users analyze and decompose socio-technical growth processes using the logistic function as well as a range of sigmoidal functions, S-curves. This decomposition is roughly analogous to wavelet analysis, popular for signal processing and compression.
This latest version of our software offers users numerous new features including an extended selection of sigmoidal fitting functions and advanced statistical analyses. Background information can be found here: https://phe.rockefeller.edu/LogletLab/docs.html
Many thanks to Eyal Schachter and David Burg of the University of Haifa for its development.
English translation of Ausubel autobiography
In 2014, Di Renzo published in Italian Jesse Ausubel’s autobiography La liberazione dell’ambiente (autobiography) 112 pp. We now post an English translation as The Liberation of the Environment. The autobiography (48 pages in English) should not be confused with the short essay also titled Liberation of the Environment which opens the 1996 Daedalus special issue on environment and 1997 NAE book Technological Trajectories and the Human Environment.
Intellectual Migrations and Global Universities
On the 25th anniversary of publication, we post Jesse Ausubel’s 1992 essay “Intellectual Migrations and Global Universities,” which accurately foresaw saturation of domestic markets leading to aggressive globalization of USA universities.