National Cockroach Project

…types that differ by NYC neighborhood. The WSJ story prompted an interview for Channel 4 TV news, complete with cockroach close-ups, and coverage in the London Times and US Metro….

EMBO Biodiversity conference

The videos of the talks of the EMBO/EMBL conference on Biodiversity and Society held 9-10 November 2012 in Heidelberg are now on-line, including Jesse Ausubel’s talk on Macroscopes for Biodiversity….

Reuters article on COVID-19 & Quiet Ocean Experiment

…before propeller-driven ships and boats spanned the globe? https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-climate-research-i/pandemic-offers-scientists-unprecedented-chance-to-hear-oceans-as-they-once-were-idUSKBN23F1M3 even picked up by the New York Times: https://www.nytimes.com/reuters/2020/06/08/us/08reuters-health-coronavirus-climate-research-insight.html and in the hard copy edition of the Washington Post. The 2009…

National Conference on Marine eDNA

…University-Rockefeller University Marine Science and Policy Initiative. We are exploring the marine waters of New York City and New Jersey with eDNA. Some of our work is posted here https://phe.rockefeller.edu/barcode/blog/nycnj-aquatic-vertebrate-edna-project/…

passing of Rodney Nichols

…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….

Forests, Farms, and Materials

The PHE studies changes in land use and examines trends, scales, and linkages relating to resource consumption within and across national economies to expose opportunities to improve the quality of…