The History of DNA Barcoding Video

Mark is interviewed by DNA Learning Center, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory on how barcoding went from an idea in 2003 to more than 1 million barcoded specimens in 2011. T…

Life in submarine canyons

…of the US Ocean Exploration program on the EV Okeanos Explorer. For brief video highlights (about two minutes each) from 2000 feet below the surface about 100 miles off the…

National Cockroach Project (NCP)

Our National Cockroach Project (NCP) aims to map genetic diversity in the American cockroach (Periplaneta americana). This week an excellent post by Douglas Main on LiveScience captures the science and…

Technical Progress and Climatic Change

JH Ausubel. Energy Policy 23 (4/5): 411–416 1995 Also pp. 501-512 in Integrated Assessment of Mitigation, Impacts, and Adaptation to Climate Change, N Nakicenovic, WD Nordhaus, R Richels, and FL Toth (eds), International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Laxenburg, Austria, 1994.

…in 1800 as the average American field yielded until about 1940. Americans harvested more by bringing in more land. Productivity per hectare took off in the United States in the…

More Cockroach coverage

  Our citizen science cockroach project continues to attract attention, with PHE researcher Mark Stoeckle interviewed on local NBC TV news, National Public Radio, and National Geographic online. Coverage also…