The Switch Interview
Jesse was interviewed by Switch Energy Alliance in this short video, where he discusses reducing industrial encroachment into nature….
Jesse was interviewed by Switch Energy Alliance in this short video, where he discusses reducing industrial encroachment into nature….
The program Jesse has managed for the Sloan Foundation on the Known, the Unknown, and the Unknowable is featured in the Wall Street Journal (May 30)0r the original article scanned….
The behavior of a dynamic system, be it biological or socio-technical, frequently resembles a series of logistic wavelets, or “loglets.” Loglet analysis involves the decomposition of growth and diffusion patterns…
Our efforts on environmental genomics begin to bear fruit. A “Barcode of Life” project seems likely to proceed based on the just-completed “Banbury II” conference on DNA & taxonomy at…
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….
Hard copy version of our paper applying concepts of rarity in biology to rarity in geology published: American Mineralogist, June 2016; 101 (6) Invited Centennial Article On the nature and…
Brazilian crustacean experts Rafael Rosa, Daniel Cavallari & Ana Vera-Silva suggest that the abominable Yeti crab discovered by the Census of Marine Life and described in 2006 by Macpherson, Jones…
PHE’s marine eDNA expert Mark Stoeckle comments on new papers on airborne eDNA in the video Scientists ID Dozens of Plants, Animals from Free-Floating DNA. In a trio of studies,…
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…
…the project, student research teams use DNA barcoding to explore biodiversity in NYC. Projects can use DNA barcodes to examine any aspect of the NYC environment, such as: Sampling biodiversity…