Paul McCartney writes song for CoML Film

Beatle Paul McCartney’s blog confirms he is writing a song for the Jacques Perrin’s Ocean film made in cooperation with the Census of Marine Life….

Frisk Ocean Noise paper

Ocean acoustician George Frisk has published Noiseonomics: The relationship between ambient noise levels in the sea and global economic trends in the open access journal Nature Scientific Reports. The paper…

Barcode Coverage

The big London DNA barcoding jamboree earned extensive press coverage, ranging from BBC and CNN to Science. https://phe.rockefeller.edu/PDF_FILES/Marshall2005.pdf…

Kiefer BioFuels Report

Biofuels attract lots of money and political support in the USA, but they have lots of environmental and economic shortcomings. Captain Todd A. “Ike” Kiefer has written a comprehensive, penetrating…

Shirshov lecture on eDNA

The slides from Jesse Ausubel’s lecture on Marine biodiversity revealed by extracellular DNA in seawater are posted at the site of the conference celebrating the 70th birthday of Russia’s Shirshov…

Lindbergh Conference

We post a photo of a Eurasian Eagle Owl, Bubo bubo, participating in the 2004 Lindbergh conference on mobility. Jesse felt the owl, who did not use Powerpoint but did…

2013 papers from the Census of Marine Life:

…Victor Gallardo’s paper on the huge biomass of the filamentous bacteria off Chile & Peru: Extrapolations of Standing-Stocks of Big Bacteria in Humboldt Eastern Boundary Current Ecosystem The late Prof….

Canadian Nuclear

We post Jesse’s “Nuclear and Renewable Heresies“, delivered as a plenary address to the Canadian Nuclear Association 10 March 2005 in Ottawa….