Deep Carbon Observatory midterm scientific report

…at the 2014 AGU Fall Meeting, 15-19 December 2014 in San Francisco, USA.  Jesse Ausubel continues to advise the program and marvel at the abundance of methane and hydrogen….

Budget Hero

Continuing our interest in Serious Games, we encouraged the creation of an interactive video game about the US federal budget deficit through Sloan and Lounsbery.  The game, Budget Hero…

OneNOAA Science Seminar online

…for “Trawl and eDNA Assessment of Marine Fish Diversity, Seasonality, and Relative Abundance in Coastal New Jersey, USAThe recording for this webinar can be viewed here by clicking on…

Leonardo DNA project

…sponsored by Eugenio Giani, President of the Regional Council of Tuscany. Jesse’s introductory essay is here. The press release earned wide attention, for example, BBC radio: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p03tb7ht Gizmodo, USA The

Corngrowers outperform professors

…opportunity than that between Sinclair’s projected maximum and averages over the entire USA. For 50 years the National Corn Growers Association has conducted a national contest, and in 2014 the

Coach and the Fly

Are USA carbon dioxide emissions now around their “natural” peak?  Following up on our postings 589 and 585 on 20 April 2009, we post a trio of figures that…

Kiefer BioFuels Report

Biofuels attract lots of money and political support in the USA, but they have lots of environmental and economic shortcomings. Captain Todd A. “Ike” Kiefer has written a comprehensive, penetrating…