Supergrid2

…and potential solutions for this potential continental energy exchange, which could become over the decades an eBay for buyers and sellers of protons and electrons from kilowatts to gigawatts. https://www.conferences.uiuc.edu/supergrid/agenda.html…

Tsunami blog

An American high school teacher is blogging the Census of Marine Life cruise now underway to explore the seafloor at the Tsunami epicenter: https://www.armadaproject.org/journals/2005-2006/holt12.htm…

FISH-BOL now online

The website for the project we helped start to develop DNA barcodes for all fish, appropriately called “FISH-BOL”, is now on-line at https://www.fishbol.org/….

Secret Forests of El Salvador

…almost 40% between 1992-2001. https://www.cifor.cgiar.org/docs/_ref/polex/english/ The full reference of the article is: Hecht, S.B., S. Kandel, I. Gomez, N. Cuellar, and H. Rosa. 2006. Globalization, Forest Resurgence, and Environmental Politics…

DNA barcodes for almost all North American birds published

…paper on barcodes for bats as well as a methodological paper, in Molecular Ecology Notes. For a copy of the paper as well as images and other information, visit https://www.barcodeoflife.org/barcode/batsbirds/…

How Did Noah’s Ark Float?

…far, in a free online service (https://www.eol.org/). “There are expectations of 8 to 50 million more species out there that we haven’t identified yet,” Edwards said. Other experts’ estimates of…

3rd International Barcode of Life Conference

Mark Stoeckle and Jesse Ausubel attended the 3rd International Barcode of Life Conference [https://www.dnabarcodes2009.org/] 7-13 November in Mexico City and were astonished and thrilled by the progress of the field…

Galatée’s Oceans film

…the film around the city and from the premiere. This 48-page booklet, A Look at Marine Life, in French and English describes the ~150 species appearing in the film. https://www.coml.org/comlfiles/press/GalateeBrochure_14January2010.pdf…