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.
News
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
SuperGrid2 January 2005
The proceedings of the October 2004 SuperGrid 2 conference on
the Continental SuperGrid for distribution of electricity and
hydrogen have been posted by Paul Grant along with lots of other
good material about the SuperGrid at:
https://www.w2agz.com/SG%20-%20SuperGrid%202%20Proceedings.htm
“Barcoding Life, Illustrated” available
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.
Donald Jenkins
PHE welcomes Donald Jenkins, former manager of advanced propulsion at Rocketdyne, to work with us part-time from his home in Southern California on design issues for zero emission power plants.