Barcoding of Life Conference a success!

and three major barcoding initiatives launched: 1) World Fishes, 2) All Plants of Costa Rica, and 3) World Birds, the latter led by Mark Stoeckle together with researchers at Guelph…

Industrial Ecology: A Coming of Age Story

JH Ausubel. Resources 130: 14 1998 Published by Resources for the Future, Washington, DC

This article was published in the Resources for the Future (Washington, D.C.) newsletter Resources. Posted with permission. The Greek oikos, for house, fathered the siblings economics and ecology. Economics, literally, are…

Microbial diversity

world of plants and animals, we have a far weaker grasp on the question of whether global microbial diversity is increasing, decreasing, or staying the same. In an article published…

Census of Marine Life in the news

The deep sea projects of the Census of Marine Life make news with their discoveries, as for example covered by AP’s Cain Burdeau in a 22 November 2009 story “Thousands…

NYCFish (“Sushi-gate”): identifying marketplace fish

NYCFish (“Sushigate”): high school students discover one-quarter of fish sold in their NYC neighborhood is mislabeled News report by students Kate Stoeckle and Louisa Strauss Dubbed “Sushi-gate”, their investigation drew wide…