Matt Ridley on Peak Farmland

…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…

National Geographic on eDNA

An article by Steve Leahy for National Geographic about our National Conference on Marine Environmental DNA New DNA tool ‘changes everything in marine science’ https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/2018/12/edna-environmental-dna-counts-fish-changes-marine-science/ Also in the news net:…

National Cockroach Project (NCP)

…spirit of the project and results so far. The LiveScience post was picked up by NBC News, Yahoo News, and Discovery websites. Results so far show four distinct genetic types…

How Did Noah’s Ark Float?

…of the Encylopedia of Life at Rockefeller University in New York City. “I’m not sure about the volume but … they wouldn’t all want the same conditions in their cabins,”…

St. Andrews

the English-speaking world. As part of the ceremonies, Ausubel delivered a 600th Anniversary Lecture, Every Fish in the Sea: Findings of the First Census of Marine Life. For over three…

Toward a Census of Marine Life

JH Ausubel. Oceanography 12 (3): 4–5 1999

and for science, motivate the effort to mobilize the resources needed to conduct a worldwide Census of Marine Life. The process began in March of 1997 with a gathering of…