Botanists establish DNA barcode for land plants
In this week’s Proc Natl Acad Sci USA, CBOL Plant Working Group, which included 52 researchers from 25 institutions, announced agreement on a DNA barcode for land plants. The authors…
In this week’s Proc Natl Acad Sci USA, CBOL Plant Working Group, which included 52 researchers from 25 institutions, announced agreement on a DNA barcode for land plants. The authors…
…Ocean Decade: U.S. Launch Meeting February 3-4, 2021. The USA Ocean Decade Ocean-Shots site is here. Here is the list of 87 Ocean-Shot ideas. The journal of the Marine Technology…
…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….
…Grow and Eat. We continue to follow the achievements of farmers. Corn yields have gone insane. Average USA yields have continued the gradual climb to about 170 bushels/acre or 12…
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…
…for “Trawl and eDNA Assessment of Marine Fish Diversity, Seasonality, and Relative Abundance in Coastal New Jersey, USA” The recording for this webinar can be viewed here by clicking on…
…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…
…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…
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…
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…