We post “Ocean Past, Ocean Future: Reflections on the Shift from the 19th to 21st Century Ocean”, Jesse H. Ausubel, Michelson Memorial Lecture, 15 October 2015 United States Naval Academy, Annapolis MD.”
Talks and Podcasts
Items related to talks Jesse Ausubel has given or will be giving in the near future.
Self Sinking Capsules
We post (belatedly) Self-sinking capsules to investigate Earth’s interior and dispose of radioactive waste, Jesse H. Ausubel, Seminar presentation delivered 26 July 2011, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Program of Study in Geophysical Fluid Dynamics. Jesse and 2011 summer intern Catherine Fisher carried out this work.
EconTalk interview
Baltimore Aquarium Lecture 28 April
A Peek into our Past: A Century of Oceanic Changes
Tuesday, rescheduled from April 28, 2015 to 3 June.
Jesse Ausubel will give a lecture 6:30-8:30 pm at the National Aquarium in Baltimore. Learn More
Long Now video
Jesse Ausubel’s Nature Rebounds January 2015 seminar for the Long Now Foundation is now available as:
Full-length Video on Long Now Public Website.
Also on YouTube.
The audio podcast is availabe at iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/salt-seminars-about-long-term/id186908455
And through the SoundCloud page: https://soundcloud.com/longnow/nature-rebounding-land-and-ocean-sparing-through-concentrating-human-activities
Nature Rebounds
Jesse Ausubel’s 55-minute talk (plus 30 minutes of Q&A), Nature Rebounds, to the Long Now Foundation on 13 January 2015 at the San Francisco Jazz Center is on-line. Thanks to Stewart Brand and Co. for the opportunity to meet with the Bay Area community.
Making Nature Useless
On November 5 Iddo Wernick and Jesse Ausubel participated together with colleagues from the Breakthrough Institute in the seminar at Resources for the Future (RFF) in Washington DC titled Making Nature Useless? Global Resource Trends, Innovation, and Implications for Conservation. Iddo presented work on century-long trends in USA resource use, Making Nature Useless: Relative Dematerialization & Absolute Peaks.
We also post Jesse’s brief (3-page) prepared remarks, On Useless Nature, subsequently published in RealClearScience (18 Sept 2015).
Some coverage at
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/can-humans-and-nature-co-exist/
https://reason.com/archives/2014/11/10/making-nature-useless
Meat & Potatoes 1
We post “Meat and Potatoes and the American Landscape,” Jesse Ausubel’s lecture for the Sheriff’s Meadows Foundation at the Old Whaling Church in Edgartown, Massachusetts, on the island of Martha’s Vineyard, 8 July 2014.
Peak Farmland and Potatoes
We post Peak Farmland and Potatoes, Jesse Ausubel’s Plenary address to the 2014 Potato Business Summit of the United Potato Growers of America, San Antonio, 8 January 2014.
Cars and Civilization
As part of the William and Myrtle Harris Lectureship in Science and Civilization, Jesse presented a lecture entitled ‘Cars and Civilization‘ at the California Institute of Technology on 30 April 2014.