…name a specimen without having to consult an expert or search through taxonomic keys which are generally indecipherable to the non-specialist. As DNA barcode identifications become more common, will this…
A Dive into Hudson Canyon: New York’s Atlantic Secret The Wildlife Conservation Society, The New York Aquarium, and The Explorers Club invite you to a dive into Hudson Canyon –…
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…
…indifference” (Great 15-year project to decipher genes stirs opposition. New York Times, June 5, 1990). The Times article details some of the initial negative reactions: “Even if scientists manage to…
…have also added a new Java Applet that demonstrates logistic (S-shaped function) analysis. We have also made general site updates and enhancements to our list of publications, our CV’s, etc….
…of tentacles. The individual zooids live in colonies forming fans, bushes, and sheets. “Bryozoa”, from Ernst Haeckel‘s Kunstformen der Natur, 1904 Dennis P. Gordon, distinguished taxonomist at New Zealand’s…
…from waters around New York City as well as diverse coastal habitats from Massachusetts to New Jersey. With support from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), our current efforts…
…people are likely to release from farming a land area “1½ times the size of Egypt, 2½ times the size of France, or 10 Iowas, and possibly multiples of this…
A column about us, “Optimistic about our environmental future”, is syndicated in many newspapers across the country. By MITZI PERDUE, Scripps Howard News Service September 11, 2000 As director of…
…United States, Stanford Institute for Higher Education Research, 1995), and the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) complex releases two major assessments of American graduate education and research (Reshaping the Graduate…