We welcome Tony Barrett as a Research Intern to the Program for the Human Environment. Mr. Barrett is a graduate of the University of California, San Diego having earned a Bachelor of Science Degree with a major in Chemical Engineering. During his internship with PHE, he will be assembling and analyzing data from various sources to support ongoing research.
News
Keystone talk posted
We post Jesse’s 2004 version of his talk “Does energy policy matter?” (text only, no figures) presented to the Keystone Energy Board in Colorado on 20 February.
LA Times on CoML
A January 11 column in the Los Angeles Times favors the Census of Marine Life over the mission to Mars. So do we!
Cesare Marchetti Web Archive
Many of the works of our esteemed colleague Cesare Marchetti are
now available on their own site: https://cesaremarchetti.org
San Jose Mercury article
PHE investigator Mark Stoeckle is quoted on DNA barcoding
in a vivid if not perfectly accurate article in the San Jose Mercury News.
https://phe.rockefeller.edu/BarcodeConference/articles.html#000243
Jesse in 23 Nov 2003 NYT
The New York Times quotes us in an article on stablization of methane emissions.
CoML Baseline Report and a Lyd og Video
This is a big week for the Census of Marine Life, highlighted by the release on 23 October of its Baseline Report.
On 16 October the Norwegian Broadcasting Company aired a film from CoML’s June 2003 MIR submersible dives to the mid-Atlantic Ridge, as part of the prime time program ‘Schoedinger’s Cat’. The short Lyd og Video captures the 4,500 meter descent and the animals around.
Thanks to the Next 1000 Years participants
Thanks to everyone who participated in our conference 9-10 October at The Rockefeller University on “The Next 1000 Years.” The conference inspired us. We are pondering what to do with the many interesting ideas put forward. More news in a few weeks.
Sloan Digital Archive
With his Sloan hat on, Jesse helped bring the September 11 Digital Archive (https://911digitalarchive.org) into existence. On September 11, 2003 the Library of Congress held a Symposium on “September 11 as History” to reflect on the events and to mark the Library’s first major digital acquisition of September 11, 2001, materials with the addition to its collections of the September 11 Digital Archive. For the press release about the accession visit
https://www.loc.gov/today/pr/2003/03-142.html
, while the Symposium program and eventually its webcast are at
https://www.loc.gov/rr/program/911symposium/
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CoML on CNN
The Census of Marine Life, which Jesse has helped develop, is growing fast. The Associated Press has just issued a lively account of some of the nascent field projects.