Advances & Challenges in Global Observing Systems for Marine Life

Annually the directors of the major bluewater ocean science institutions meet as the Partnership for Observation of the Global Ocean (POGO https://www.ocean-partners.org ). On 7 January 2009 Jesse addressed the group about Advances & Challenges in Global Observing Systems for Marine Life drawing on technologies advanced by the Census of Marine Life research program.

Caution: the pdf of the 51-slide presentation is 14 MB.

Is Richer Greener?

2 December 2008 Jesse presented a seminar on the question Is Richer Greener? at the request of Rockefeller University graduate students. We post the slides from the talk, which was jointly prepared with new PHE research assistant Smriti Rao, who imaginatively updated several figures prepared as part of our work on dematerialization and the ImPACT Identity.

Natural Gas and the Jackrabbit

This a talk given by Jesse at the PowerSouth Energy Cooperative in Sandestin Florida on 22 January 2008 explaining why methane is green and destiny, and why renewables are neither green nor destiny.

CoML Venice

We post the text (but not slides and movies) from Jesse’s talk “How to Census Marine Life” delivered in Venice 15 June 2006 under the auspices of the European Regional Implementation Committee for the Census of Marine Life (Euro-CoML) and Telecom Italia’s Progetto Italia.