Items related to talks Jesse Ausubel has given or will be giving in the near future.
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
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
The Aquarium of the Pacific posted a 3-minute video interview about ocean exploration with Jesse Ausubel taped during his visit 5 December 2013.
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.
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!
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/