Border inspectors and wildlife officials around the world look for endangered species killed and trafficked in violation of national laws and international treaties. Sometimes the objects are easily identified but…
An idea we have helped cultivate, the International Quiet Ocean Experiment, was the subject of a conference at the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission in Paris 30 August – 1 September 2011….
The Scientific Committee on Oceanic Research has issued the 6th Newsletter chronicling the progress of the International Quiet Ocean Experiment, to which COVID has given an amazing opportunity and impetus…
22 May is 2012’s International Day of Biodiversity, and we are delighted the day features marine biodiversity and the Census of Marine Life in particular. For some coverage in Spanish,…
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…
Jesse was interviewed by Daniel Sieberg of CBS News for an Eye to Eye segment on The Encylopedia of Life. You can watch the four minute video here….
What’s in the world’s most popular beverage-tea? Mark Stoeckle helped lead three NYC high school students on a DNA barcoding investigation of commercial tea products, published today in Nature’s online…
…the fragmented world of taxonomy, and so Padial and de la Riva’s exhortation is an important step. With growing DNA barcode libraries and increasingly inexpensive sequencing technologies, DNA testing will…
…little study so far on whether mitochondrial differences among species reflect functional adaptation (although see Ruiz-Pesini et al 2004 Science 303:223, Bayona-Balfaluy et al 2004 Mol Biol Evol 22:716). In…
The Technology-Entertainment-Design (TED) conference that helped launch the Encyclopedia of Life and connect it with hi-techsters prepared a 4-minute, 13 MB video [download it here] that both reports on progress…