…Their work appears today in Nature Publishing Group’s open access journal Scientific Reports https://www.nature.com/srep/2013/130911/srep02635/full/srep02635.html The resulting Klee diagrams are both beautiful and scientifically informative. In the figure below, bird and…
…Decoupling for Conservation. Jesse’s remarks begin at 29′ 15″ and run 8 minutes (scroll down to the video box & use slider). The video begins with Linus Blomqvist’s introduction of…
William Nordhaus today earned the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics for his pioneering work on climate change. Hooray for Bill! Jesse first encountered Bill’s work in the late 1970s, started…
Today begins our National Conference on Marine Environmental DNA. A press release describes the purposes and previews some findings. The meeting is part of the continuing Monmouth University-Rockefeller University Marine…
…Changing Ocean Exploring a Census of Marine Life Today. Jesse Ausubel gave the opening talk, a 25-minute retrospective on the CoML. We post a pdf of the slides here. We…
The Consortium for Ocean Leadership (COL) hosted a virtual symposium entitled Observing Life in a Changing Ocean: Exploring a ‘Census of Marine Life’ Today, on January 27, 2021. The Census…
…contains over 109 million records from over 180,000 species, about 70% of described marine species, and offers wonderful data access, archiving, and visualization. Today, thanks to software wizardry and persistence…
…“dematerialization” of human societies under way? Can we identify a decline over time in the weight of industrial materials used to produce the end products consumed today in more and…
The passage of time has connected the invention of the wheel with more than ten million miles of paved roads around the world today, and the capture of fire with…