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….

“Foresters and DNA” posted

We post “Foresters and DNA“, a version of the forthcoming paper by Ausubel, Wernick, and Waggoner based on Jesse’s Keynote address to the Duke U. Forest Genomics conference in November…

Jesse Ausubel elected to AAAS Class of 2011

The American Academy of Arts and Sciences elects Jesse as a member of the Class of 2011. AAAS Class of 2011 (PDF) Rockefeller University Newswire press release…