Panel on Ocean Exploration

The Department of Commerce has established a new Panel on Ocean Exploration on which Jesse is serving. The work of the panel is described at https://oceanpanel.nos.noaa.gov….

Optimistic About Our Environmental Future

…second, less primitive, part of the human brain has a lot in common with the brains of other mammals. This section controls emotions and behaviors such as care of the…

Cesare Marchetti Web Archive

Many of the works of our esteemed colleague Cesare Marchetti are now available on their own site: https://cesaremarchetti.org…

Barcode of Life site updates

We have updated and reorganized our webpages on DNA, Taxonomy, and the Barcode of Life (https://phe.rockefeller.edu/BarcodeConference/) to keep pace with this rapidly progressing field. Among other exciting developments, the Smithsonian…

29 June 2004

…Browne’s remarks are notable for accepting a limit or threshold for warming of 2.0 centigrade and for atmospheric concentration of 500-550 parts per million. Mr. Browne’s remarks are at https://www.cfr.org/pub7148/john_browne/beyond_kyoto.php…

2 July 2004

…MS Loran and G. O. Sars, which had completed the first leg of the survey of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge. For the thrilling daily cruise diary of the expedition, visit: https://www.mar-eco.no/Shiptoshore/g._o._sars…

Big Green Energy Machines

…the Millennium Technology Prize symposium in Finland, is the cover story in the October issue of The Industrial Physicist. https://www.aip.org/tip/INPHFA/vol-10/iss-5/p20.html We also have a PDF copy on our servers: https://phe.rockefeller.edu/PDF_FILES/BigGreen.pdf…

Supergrid2

…and potential solutions for this potential continental energy exchange, which could become over the decades an eBay for buyers and sellers of protons and electrons from kilowatts to gigawatts. https://www.conferences.uiuc.edu/supergrid/agenda.html…

Tsunami blog

An American high school teacher is blogging the Census of Marine Life cruise now underway to explore the seafloor at the Tsunami epicenter: https://www.armadaproject.org/journals/2005-2006/holt12.htm…

FISH-BOL now online

The website for the project we helped start to develop DNA barcodes for all fish, appropriately called “FISH-BOL”, is now on-line at https://www.fishbol.org/….