Science and Diplomacy

…Baghdad faculty in science & engineering to visit the USA. We were pleased to help make possible the visit, which finally began 25 June 2005 and earned a front-page story…

Bar Code of Life – Meeting Reports

Meeting Reports 2nd International Conference on the Barcode of Life 17-21 September 2007, Academia Sinica, Tapei, Taiwan Conference program, abstracts, participants All Birds ABBI update 2nd International Conference on Barcode…

Mapping genetic diversity in the American cockroach

National Cockroach Project What High school students and other citizen scientists collecting and helping analyze American cockroaches using DNA barcoding. Status: Project completed. We thank our intrepid specimen collectors! NCP in the News

NYC/NJ Fish eDNA – Methods

…106 bp fragment detected all bony fish, needed other primers for cartilaginous fish and turtles; 1 L samples vacuum filtered onto 0.22-µm Durapore membrane filters (Millipore, MA, USA); Qiagen extraction…

13th Quiet Ocean Newsletter

The 13th Newsletter of the International Quiet Ocean Experiment, now online, include updates on the Global Library of Underwater Sounds (GLUBS) and the World Ocean Passive Acoustic Monitoring (WOPAM) day….

Paul Gaffney article on Ocean Observations

…work on eDNA. Also especially notable are Mapping the World’s Oceans by our frequent collaborator Larry A. Mayer, and Using Noise to Image the Ocean by William A. Kuperman. These…