Jesse returned today from the Azores where the international Scientific Steering Committee for the Census of Marine Life met and welcomed to port the MS Loran and G. O. Sars, which had completed the first leg of the survey of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge. For the thrilling daily cruise diary of the expedition, visit: https://www.mar-eco.no/Shiptoshore/g._o._sars
News
10 Reasons for DNA barcoding
Mark Stoeckle, Paul Waggoner, and Jesse have prepared a 2-page brochure about ten reasons for DNA barcoding of species.
https://phe.rockefeller.edu/BarcodeConference/docs/TenReasonsBarcoding.pdf
Jesse at Millennium Technology Prize symposium
On 22 June Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web, received the first Millennium Technology Prize [www.technologyawards.org] (1 million Euros) in Helsinki. Jesse was one of the speakers at the accompanying symposium. His remarks on Big Green Energy Machines were reported in the main Finnish newspaper Helsingin Sanomat [part 1, [part 2]. We thank Pekka Kauppi for a translation to English. The Suomen Kuvalehti (“Newsweek in Finland”) also ran a story that highlights both ZEPPs and the Continental Supergrid [part 1, part 2].
Big Green Energy Machines: Text (pdf), and Slides (powerpoint)
29 June 2004
Sir John Browne, Chairman and CEO of BP, spoke on the record at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York on Thursday 24 June about global warming “Beyond Kyoto.” Jesse moderated the meeting. Mr. Browne’s remarks are notable for accepting a limit or threshold for warming of 2.0 centigrade and for atmospheric concentration of 500-550 parts per million. Mr. Browne’s remarks are at
CoML – Arctic Project
The new Arctic project of the Census of Marine Life is in the news today. The story was covered by all the big media outlets — BBC, CNN International, AP, ABC News–, made it into print in ten nations, and was reported in English, Japanese, French, and Spanish.
DNA barcodes featured in New Scientist
A DNA barcoding article is featured cover story in the June 26, 2004 issue of New Scientist.
17 June 2004
Jesse’s brief speech in Spanish to the first South American workshop for
the Census of Marine Life has appeared in the Chilean journal Gayana. We also offer Jesse’s English translation.
Gayana‘s transcript [Spanish, with English translation]: https://phe.rockefeller.edu/PDF_FILES/Jesse_H._Ausubel.PDF
Jesse’s English translation: https://phe.rockefeller.edu/PDF_FILES/comlconcepcionjha.pdf
11 June 2004
We post the text and figures of the talk “The Heart of Energy Evolution” that Jesse presented to the Nuclear Energy Assembly of the Nuclear Energy Institute in New Orleans on 21 May.
Text: https://phe.rockefeller.edu/PDF_FILES/NEIrevision11june04.pdf
Figures: https://phe.rockefeller.edu/PDF_FILES/neigraphics11junerevision.ppt
Barcode of Life site updates
We have updated and reorganized our webpages on DNA, Taxonomy, and the
Barcode of Life (https://phe.rockefeller.edu/BarcodeConference/)
to keep pace with this rapidly progressing field. Among other
exciting developments, the Smithsonian Institution will be holding an Open
Meeting on the Scientific Aspects of DNA Barcoding on May 25, 2004 at
the National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C. (https://barcoding.si.edu).
FP Clarification
We post a note clarifying how we label figures in LogletLab