Hudson Canyon at Explorers Club

…Please RSVP to nyseascape@wcs.org, limited seating available. For more details, you can learn more on nyaquarium.com. This event has been made possible with support of the National Marine Sanctuary Foundation….

2018 Potato Summit

…keynote address to the 2018 Potato Business Summit of the United Potato Growers of America at Potato Expo, 8am Wednesday 10 January. The slides and video are linked at www.potatobusinesssummit.com

Quiet Ocean Experiment in Nature magazine

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-01098-6An article in the 11 April 2019 issue of Nature magazine discusses the issue of sound in the ocean and notes the role of the International Quiet Ocean Experiment (IQOE)…

Abiotic carbon, subducted biology

…April 2019 Discover Our old friend Tommy Gold would be thrilled. A paper by Peter Barry and Co. in Nature magazine explores what happens when biology meets subduction: https://deepcarbon.net/could-microbes-be-gatekeepers-earths-deep-carbon https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-019-1131-5…

Gizmodo on populations

…a simple question to a handful of relevant experts. This week’s question is: Is the world overpopulated? Jesse Ausubel draws on our carrying capacity work to offer an answer: https://earther.gizmodo.com/is-the-world-really-overpopulated-1834854464…

Publications

Some of our papers are available as PDF documents only. If you do not have a PDF reader installed, you can get Adobe Reader from the Abode website, www.adobe.com. You…

Elektron: Electrical Systems in Retrospect and Prospect

JH Ausubel, C Marchetti. Technological Trajectories and the Human Environment 110–134 1997 Also appeared in Daedalus 125(3):139-169, Summer 1996.

…or, better yet, a power plant, serving an entire community. At first, electric companies were necessarily small. Technology for the transport of electricity particularly limited the scale of operations. The…

Decarbonization: The Next 100 Years

…of hydrogen and carbon competing for market niche as did horses and automobiles or audio cassettes and compact discs, except the H/C competition extends over 300 years.  In 1800 carbon had…