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/….

Garrison & Levinson transport book

…good works, the U MN group maintains a useful page about the Kepler of transportation science, the late Yacov Zahavi:Â https://www.surveyarchive.org/zahavi.html Zahavi had a tremendous, lasting influence on the thinking…

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…

Secret Forests of El Salvador

…almost 40% between 1992-2001. https://www.cifor.cgiar.org/docs/_ref/polex/english/ The full reference of the article is: Hecht, S.B., S. Kandel, I. Gomez, N. Cuellar, and H. Rosa. 2006. Globalization, Forest Resurgence, and Environmental Politics…

Breakthrough Institute prize

…a generation of scholars and analysts focused on reducing humankind’s negative impacts on the nonhuman world. “ Thanks to Ted Nordhaus and Michael Shellenberger, co-founders of the Breakthrough Institute. https://thebreakthrough.org/articles/jesse-ausubel-announced-as-2014-breakthrough-paradigm-award-winner…

Our article on incorporating a known amount of non-fish DNA to allow better quantification of the fish DNA present in a seawater sample appears in the journal Environmental DNA.

…Stoeckle, Jesse H. Ausubel, Michael Coogan, first published: 08 December 2022, https://doi.org/10.1002/edn3.376 While our paper focuses on fish, we believe the approach of “spiking” samples collected in nature with known…