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/
News
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.
CoML Poster
We post the colorfully illustrated 4-page poster-like 2004 Highlights Report of the Census of Marine Life, which Jesse helped author.
https://phe.rockefeller.edu/PDF_FILES/CoMLAnnHigh04Report.pdf
DNA Barcode In New York Times
Today’s New York Times Science Times section has an article
A Species in a Second: Promise of DNA ‘Bar Codes’ with a good history of the DNA Barcode project and a nice graphic as well.
https://phe.rockefeller.edu/PDF_FILES/NYTimes_14Dec2004.pdf
https://phe.rockefeller.edu/PDF_FILES/NYTimes_14Dec2004_Graphic.pdf
CoML Press Release
The Census of Marine Life issues a press release highlighting its progress during the past year.
The view over “Democracy Plaza”
We post the view of the Rockefeller Center ice skating rink from Jesse’s Sloan office the morning after the Presidential election.
(click on the image to see a larger view)