“Son et lumiere” – Exciting Updates

A slightly revised version of Jesse’s May 2009 Dalhousie University Commencement Address, Son et lumiere, is published on 23 November 2009 by the monthly science magazine, SEED, as Broadening the…

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…

Animation of deep sea including our lobster

Neil Agarwal has created an informative and enjoyable dive into the deep sea where one passes species at their characteristic depths down to the deepest sea floor. At 250 meters…

Science and Diplomacy

Aware of our long-standing interest in science & diplomacy and belief that science effectively bridges peoples, Harvard physics professor Richard Wilson contacted us in December 2003 about helping U. of…

Two CoML reports

Two recent reports from the Census of Marine Life have drawn worldwide attention. Discoveries of the month-long Hidden Ocean expedition in the Arctic on the US Coast Guard Icebreaker Healy,…