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…
…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…
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…
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…
…fish in coastal New Jersey, USA [open access external link]. ICES J Marine Sci, 2021. Stoeckle MY, Mishu MD, Charlop-Powers Z. Improved Environmental DNA Reference Library Detects Overlooked Marine Fishes in New…
…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…
…taxonomic information science is uBio (Universal Biological Indexer and Organizer) www.ubio.org, “an initiative within the science library community to join international efforts to create and utilize a comprehensive and collaborative…
As Dirk Steinke’s recent blog post demonstrated, since the seminal 2003 Proc Royal Soc London B Biol Sci paper by Hebert, Cywinska, Ball, and DeWaard, barcoders around the world have…
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….
…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…