Recognizing Terry Collins and Dale Langford

Human Environment, and many reports of the Census of Marine Life, Deep Carbon Observatory, and other programs in which Jesse has played a role. As reported in our 2013 blog…

The Microbial Environment

Humanity depends on ecological services performed by bacteria, archaea, fungi, and protists, which recycle nutrients, nurture plant growth, purify water, make cheese and wine, and decompose wastes. Microbes also play…

Microbial diversity

…barcodes for species identification versus human mitochondrial variation for the study of migrations and pathologies. Earlier work by Stoeckle and others looked at using the DNA barcoding method to document…

Sewage archives

…more sophisticated and the number of targets relevant to public health expands, biological archives will directly prepare society to efficiently monitor and anticipate concerns about biologically important conditions affecting human

Fusion power density demonstrated

…with deuterium-tritium fuel.  Note: *CANDU is a pressurized heavy water reactor.  Sources of data:  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_density and https://euro-fusion.org/eurofusion-news/dte3record/.  Figure prepared by N.M.Victor, 2/9/2024.  Program for the Human Environment, The Rockefeller University….

The Liberation of the Environment [PDF]

JH Ausubel. Technological Trajectories and the Human Environment 1-13 1997 An earlier version was published by The Collegium Budapest, Budapest, Hungary, A krnyezet felszabadtasa (The Liberation of the Environment, in Hungarian) Magyar Tudomany CII(2):164-171, 1995. Also appeared in Portuguese, A Liberacao do Meio Ambiente, Tecbahia 12(2):29-41, 1997