The recently completed Census of Marine Life expedition reports lifeless conditions on the seafloor above the tsunami epicenter in a 31 May press release.
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Tsunami blog
An American high school teacher is blogging the Census of Marine Life cruise now underway to explore the seafloor at the Tsunami epicenter:
Nitro Letter
Adoption of alarming forecasts of nitrogen fertilizer use characterizes many articles and reports, and serves their authors. Nature magazine declined to print our correspondence on its publication of three unconvincing instances of use of high nitrogen forecasts. It is a good bet the growing international nitrogen research industry will feed itself.
“Foresters and DNA” posted
We post “Foresters and DNA“, a version of the forthcoming paper by Ausubel, Wernick, and Waggoner based on Jesse’s Keynote address to the Duke U. Forest Genomics conference in November 2004.
Canadian Nuclear
We post Jesse’s “Nuclear and Renewable Heresies“, delivered as a plenary address to the Canadian Nuclear Association 10 March 2005 in Ottawa.
Lindbergh Conference
We post a photo of a Eurasian Eagle Owl, Bubo bubo, participating in the 2004 Lindbergh conference on mobility. Jesse felt the owl, who did not use Powerpoint but did demonstrate how to catch a mouse, gave the best presentation of the conference.
Barcode Coverage
Barcoding of Life Conference a success!
Barcoding of Life Conference at London Natural History Museum February 7-9, 2005 was a major scientific and organizational event. Important new discovery of an effective barcode for higher plants announced, and three major barcoding initiatives launched: 1) World Fishes, 2) All Plants of Costa Rica, and 3) World Birds, the latter led by Mark Stoeckle together with researchers at Guelph and Smithsonian Institution. Excellent worldwide press coverage (link to attached pdf of barcode coverage). Our new barcoding brochure was well received at conference and downloaded heavily from our revamped website, https://phe.rockefeller.edu/BarcodeConference/
Barcoding Life, Illustrated
Mark Stoeckle, Paul Waggoner, and Jesse have prepared “Barcoding Life, Illustrated”, a brief brochure on the goals, rationale, and early results of this new technology for species identification and biodiversity science.
https://phe.rockefeller.edu/PDF_FILES/BLIllustrated26jan04print v1-3.pdf
Science news January 2005
Science News featured our work on DNA barcoding of birds as its cover story
4 December with a great cover illustration.
https://phe.rockefeller.edu/PDF_FILES/ScienceNews_4Dec2004.pdf