Barcoding Life Highlights 2013
In recognition of the Fifth International Barcode of Life Conference opening next week in Kunming, China, we offer Barcoding Life Highlights 2013. This eight page pdf takes a look…
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The DNA They Leave Behind
Marine eDNA’s rapid progress and future potential highlighted by science writer Cheryl Lyn Dybas in September 2019 Oceanography, including commentary from Jesse Ausubel and Mark Stoeckle, and drawing on last…
“A Botanical Macroscope” – Jesse’s commentary in PNAS
Jesse’s commentary, “A Botanical Macroscope“, about the DNA plant barcode and its implications for the Encyclopedia of Life and related e-Biosphere initiatives, appeared in the 4 August issue of the…
Iddo Breakthrough
PHE’s Iddo Wernick was named a Senior Fellow of the Breakthrough Institute for his work on the decoupling of resource use from the environment. This continues our connection with the…
Industrialization of the oceans
Robert Bryce, author of several good books about energy and technology, published an article in Forbes magazine drawing on Program for the Human Environment work about industrialization of the oceans…
Potatoes challenge taxonomists
In 7 May 2009 Amer J Botany, David Spooner, scientist at USDA and University of Wisconsin, applies DNA barcoding to wild potatoes. According to the author, “the taxonomy of sect….
Dinochelus ausubeli
Shane T. Ahyong (Australian Museum), Tin-Yam Chan (National Taiwan Ocean University), and Philippe Bouchet (Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle, Paris) have honored Jesse by naming a magnificent newly discovered lobster the…
Wordle
The cool web app Wordle creates interesting word cloud summaries of papers, blogs. etc. Here are some summaries of PHE papers: Live Like America (original paper) St. Hubert (original paper)…
“Forest Inventories: Discrepancies and Uncertainties.” by Paul Waggoner
Resources for the Future publishes an important discussion paper by Paul Waggoner on “Forest Inventories: Discrepancies and Uncertainties.“Â The paper organizes and documents the poor, confusing state of measurement and…
Corngrowers outperform professors
In a 2011 lecture at Iowa State University, Prof. Thomas Sinclair (North Carolina State) concluded from models and projections of yields of maize that maximum US corn yields would be…