Matt Ridley on Peak Farmland

…period while corn acreage merely doubled. Yet the amount of farmland in the world was still rising until recently. The reason is that increased farm productivity has been matched by…

Paul Gaffney article on Ocean Observations

and the other articles relate strongly to our interests in ocean exploration (e.g., the 2016 National Ocean Exploration Forum), The International Quiet Ocean Experiment, and more generally human progress in…

Census of Marine Life goes Experimental and Weird

…8 June 2010 selection. The Webby Award is the leading international award honoring excellence on the Internet. The video features several species found by the Census of Marine Life in…

Nordhaus Nobel

William Nordhaus today earned the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics for his pioneering work on climate change. Hooray for Bill! Jesse first encountered Bill’s work in the late 1970s, started…

Bar Code of Life

…Barcode of Life – Canadian Centre for DNA Barcoding (CCDB) – Census of Marine Life (CoML) – Encyclopedia of Life (EOL) – Fish Barcode of Life (FISHBOL) – FishBase – GenoMicron Blog – International Barcode of Life (iBOL) – Marine Barcode of Life (MARBOL) – Plant DNA Barcoding – Polar…

Updated IQOE Evaluation and 12the Newsletter

…the Global Oceans on 22-25 January 2024 Jesse Ausubel, Ed Urban, and Peter Tyack updated the evaluation of the International Quiet Ocean Experiment. IQOE’s 12th Newsletter is now also online….

National Cockroach Project

September 30 Wall Street Journal featured our National Cockroach Project (NCP) in an illustrated story “Why cockroaches stay in your neighborhood”. The National Cockroach team consists of PHE researcher Mark…