Nitro Letter

Adoption of alarming forecasts of nitrogen fertilizer use characterizes many articles and reports, and serves their authors. Nature magazine declined to print our correspondence on its publication of three unconvincing…

Jacques Perrin Martha’s Vineyard Film Festival

Jacques Perrin’s environmental films will be featured 21-24 May 2015 at a festival organized by the Vineyard Conservation Society and Martha’s Vineyard Film Society. Jesse Ausubel will do Q&A after…

Tsunami blog

An American high school teacher is blogging the Census of Marine Life cruise now underway to explore the seafloor at the Tsunami epicenter: https://www.armadaproject.org/journals/2005-2006/holt12.htm…

Jacques Perrin film about American West

Galatee Productions, the company of French producer-director-actor Jacques Perrin, the genius of Winged Migations, Oceans, Microcosmos, The Seasons, and other films, has advanced toward making a film about the American…

Tsunami Expedition press release

The recently completed Census of Marine Life expedition reports lifeless conditions on the seafloor above the tsunami epicenter in a 31 May press release….

Progress in biodiversity informatics

We celebrate recent achievements in biodiversity informatics. Â Enjoy exploring the new GBIF interface for the global mapping of occurrence records. Try zooming and using the time slider: Â https://www.gbif.org/occurrence…

Loglet Lab source posted

We posted the source code for our Loglet Lab 2.0 application. This will allow interested users to continue development, by adding new fit models and visualizations….

WSJ Tucker

An opinion piece in the 29 December 2008 Wall Street Journal by William Tucker quotes Jesse’s low view of investments in so-called renewable energy sources from this interview in Weltwoche…

Urban Barcode

Jesse Ausubel (via Sloan) and Mark Stoeckle (via Rockefeller) encouraged the wonderful Urban Barcode Project of Cold Spring Harbor Lab. We are delighted that Robyn Tse, mentored by Mark, won…