The Aquarium of the Pacific posted a 3-minute video interview about ocean exploration with Jesse Ausubel taped during his visit 5 December 2013.
Talks and Podcasts
Items related to talks Jesse Ausubel has given or will be giving in the near future.
Ocean exploration around the island of Montserrat
Jesse had the amazing experience of joining the science team aboard the Exploration Vessel Nautilus exploring life on sea floor volcanoes around the Caribbean island of Montserrat. A 19″ video chat with Jesse from 24 October is posted here. Visit www.Nautiluslive.org to learn where the vessel is exploring now.
CoML in Cambridge
On 28 September in Cambridge MA for the 40th Reunion of his Harvard College class, Jesse presented a panoramic talk, Every Fish in the Sea, on the Census of Marine Life. The 17MB pdf posted here includes all the slides but not the animations or videos. Thanks to the Class of 1973 for a wonderful opportunity to share the Census!
ABC story on food fraud cites Rockefeller DNA barcode team
The food watch segment of ABC national tv news reporting on widespread inaccurate labeling (“Food Fraud? Watchdog Group Raises Concerns – Non-profit group tracks reports of fake ingredients in products from olive oil to juice) recognizes the contribution of the student team of Catherine Gamble, Rohan Kirpekar, and Grace Young working with Mark Stoeckle in an excellent video segment (RU segment begins 3 minutes 50 seconds into the report). For full information about DNA barcoding projects carried out by the students, see https://phe.rockefeller.edu/barcode/
18 December 2012 Farmland Talk
Jesse’s short lecture on Peak Farmland is now in our regular Talk’s db, and the PHE paper Peak Farmland and the Prospects for Sparing Nature in our regular Bibliography db.
Our paper has attracted more media attention. Some linked examples are below:
Reuters, appeared in many places, including Oman, Phnom Penh, Sydney, Huffington Post
EMBO Biodiversity conference
The videos of the talks of the EMBO/EMBL conference on Biodiversity and Society held 9-10 November 2012 in Heidelberg are now on-line, including Jesse Ausubel’s talk on Macroscopes for Biodiversity. We recommend especially the talks by Axel Meyer (on speciation), and Erick Karsenti & Colomban de Vargas (on marine biodiversity).
Marine Census lecture
The Carnegie Capital Science Evening 18 October 2012 was devoted to the Census of Marine Life. Jesse Ausubel’s lecture “Every Fish in the Sea: Findings of the 1st Census of Marine Life” is posted on YouTube.
European Barcode Conference
With about 130 other experts from 28 countries, Mark Stoeckle and Jesse Ausubel attended the European Consortium for the Barcode of Life (ECBOL), Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences, and Royal Museum for Central Africa 3rd ECBOL conference under the theme “Barcoding of Organisms of Policy Concern†at the Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium for Sciences and the Arts in Brussels. Mark presented his work on very low frequency nucleotide variants. Among many excellent presentations were reports on the flora of Wales, on orchids, and on forensic entomology. Thanks to Marc de Meyer, Thierry Backeljau and Pedro Crous for organizing the meeting.
Empires
Presentation-style version (color) of the paper , Quantitative Dynamics of Human Empires, International Journal of Anthropology 27(1-2): 1-62, 2012
Jesse’s 4 February talk about the Census of Marine Life to the Board of Trustees of the Marine Biological Laboratory
We post a short slide overview of the Census of Marine Life presented as 4 February 2011 talk to the Board of Trustees of the Marine Biological Laboratory.