We welcome Mark Stoeckle

We welcome Mark Stoeckle, MD as a Guest Investigator to the Program for the Human Environment. Dr. Stoeckle is a graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Medical School and is…

Paul Gaffney article on Ocean Observations

…and the other articles relate strongly to our interests in ocean exploration (e.g., the 2016 National Ocean Exploration Forum), The International Quiet Ocean Experiment, and more generally human progress in…

Directions

Our address: Nurses Residence The Program for the Human Environment The Rockefeller University 1230 York Ave. (at 66th St.) New York, NY, 10065-6399 Phone: 212-327-7917 Fax: 212-327-7519 Email: phe@rockefeller.edu www.phe.rockefeller.edu…

The Hidden Majority of Marine Life

…still images and videos, visit the news release about “hard-to-see” creatures. Learn about a carpet of bacteria the size of Greece and 35 elephants of marine microbes for every human….

Scientists, War, Diplomacy, Europe

JH Ausubel. George C. Marshall Institute News 3 (4): 2001

…messengers with minimal errors.  They dominated evolution for a couple of billion years, a domination a couple of million times longer than the Roman Empire. More recently, humanity has nourished…

Book Review, A Question Power by Robert Bryce

PHE Researcher Iddo Wernick published a review of the recently released book A Question of Power: Why Electricity Will Remain the Essential Ingredient for Human Flourishing by Robert Bryce….

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…