…long-term history and foreseeable technology developments across disciplines. Data driven, our approach is anchored in statistical analysis of time-series datasets using models of growth and diffusion, particularly Lotka-Volterra dynamical systems….
A child of the International Quiet Ocean Experiment, today is the first World Ocean Passive Acoustics Monitoring (WOPAM) day. The IQOE leaders, including Miles Parsons and Steve Simpson, have prepared…
…Rockefeller University itself. Here are notices in the 2 September New York Times from Rod’s family and from The Rockefeller University. We will miss Rod greatly. Jesse offers a Remembrance….
What’s in the world’s most popular beverage-tea? Mark Stoeckle helped lead three NYC high school students on a DNA barcoding investigation of commercial tea products, published today in Nature’s online…
…P. Little, The New York Botanical Garden Grace Young, Catherine Gamble, and Rohan Kirpekar inspect tea labels. The dried and sometimes cooked or fermented bits of plants used to make…
…small industry of birding guides and optics, and was a driving force in the much larger social transformation in awareness of the natural world and human impact. I see the…
…world enter the marketplace, often as filets or steaks lacking distinguishing external features. In October 2011, US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) formally adopted DNA barcoding for seafood identification, the…
…shark’s fins and tossing it back into the water. Highly prized for use in the delicacy shark fin soup, shark fins support a very lucrative market. Although the U.S. Shark…
We have posted an article by Greg Easterbrook that appeared today in The New Republic magazine, “America the O.K. -Why life in the U.S. has never been better,” that quotes…
…to emerge. Help sometimes comes from unexpected places. Sailing ships had trouble getting through the Suez canal and thus lost a crucial market. What might be the Suez canal for…