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, USA” The recording for this webinar can be viewed here by clicking on…

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…

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…

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….