Visualizing birds: Part 2. Distant clusters, unfinished taxonomy
In 1911, Rutherford proposed correctly that essentially all the mass of an atom is concentrated in a tiny “central charge” (what we now call the nucleus) and that the rest…
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Cockroach
PHE’s Mark Stoeckle co-authored the first large-scale study of an important urban wildlife denizen, the American cockroach (Periplaneta americana). This work demonstrates that genetically divergent lineages of American cockroach, likely…
Rare minerals
Hard copy version of our paper applying concepts of rarity in biology to rarity in geology published: American Mineralogist, June 2016; 101 (6) Invited Centennial Article On the nature and…
The Shrinking Footprint of American Meat
JH Ausubel, IK Wernick. The Breakthrough Journal
2017
ExoticBOL: Detecting Invasive Insect Pests at Port of Entry
…ExoticBOL was awarded Honorable Mention at the Urban Barcode Project (UBP) award ceremony held at American Museum of Natural History, June 2012 (ExoticBOL abstract, photos, and video presentation are posted on UBP…
CBOL and Natural History host International Barcode Conference in London
…of this conference comes three new initiatives: one to count all birds in the world, one to count all fishes in the world (Fish-BOL), and one to count all plant…
Optimistic About Our Environmental Future
A column about us, “Optimistic about our environmental future”, is syndicated in many newspapers across the country. By MITZI PERDUE, Scripps Howard News Service September 11, 2000 As director of…
Sometimes taxonomy moves slowly, could use help
In 1998, as part of biodiversity survey to assess the health of New York City’s Central Park, researchers at the American Museum of Natural History collected leaf litter samples. After…
Resolving leaves and branches?
…created from multiple nuclear and mitochondrial genes, multiple morphologic characters, and exhaustive computerized analysis. Shown at right, a neighbor-joining analysis of COI barcodes of 264 species of North American birds…
Web initiative aims to help clear name confusion
…difficult to know what is already known. Identifying even well-studied organisms in backyards, such as North American ants for example, may require graduate-level training. As taxonomic knowledge moves increasingly onto…