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…

Global Greening on TV

Science writer Matt Ridley articulates compactly and powerfully the case for a global greening, drawing in part on our work on land sparing, in this 18-minute lecture….

POGO report

The Task Force on Ocean Biological Observations of the Partnership for Observation of the Global Oceans (POGO) has completed its Report. Jesse Ausubel served on the Task Force, whose report…

Barcoding Worries and Limits

DNA barcoding, like other rapidly diffusing technologies, elicits worries. Jesse Ausubel and Paul Waggoner have made a list of Barcoding Worries and Limits 1-9. We think it valuable to recognize…

Frontiers issue on barcodes

Our close colleague David Thaler serves as a topic editor for Frontiers in Evolution and Ecology on DNA Barcodes. Please consider a submission. Have a look at: DNA Barcodes: Controversies,…

Birds paper published in PLoS Biology

“Identification of Birds Through DNA Barcodes” paper by Paul Hebert, Mark Stoeckle, Tyler Zemlak, and Charles Francis published online in PLoS Biology on September 28, 2004. This landmark paper demonstrates…

French Car Fires

Our colleague with the magic eye, Cesare Marchetti, fits the data on car fires from the Ramadan Intifada in France with the Loglet Lab model in both S-curve and linearized…