An article by Steve Leahy for National Geographic about our National Conference on Marine Environmental DNA New DNA tool ‘changes everything in marine science’ https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/2018/12/edna-environmental-dna-counts-fish-changes-marine-science/ Also in the news net:…
Jesse was interviewed for the documentary “Juice: How Electricity Explains The World,” and you can watch a brief clip here….
A preprint is now available of Living in a Material World, an essay written by PHE researcher Iddo Wernick that will appear in the Winter 2014 issue of Issues in…
A child of the International Quiet Ocean Experiment, today is the first World Ocean Passive Acoustics Monitoring (WOPAM) day. The IQOE leaders, including Miles Parsons and Steve Simpson, have prepared…
350 years ago Anthony van Leeuwenhoek explored the living world around (and within!) him using tiny, powerful, single lens microscopes. He discovered “tiny animacules” including what we now know as…
Border inspectors and wildlife officials around the world look for endangered species killed and trafficked in violation of national laws and international treaties. Sometimes the objects are easily identified but…
…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…
…of this conference comes three new initiatives: one to count all birds in the world, one to count all fishes in the world (Fish-BOL), and one to count all plant…
…journal Scientific Reports. Together with tea expert Selena Ahmed, Tufts University, and senior plant biologist Damon Little, The New York Botanical Garden, they analyzed DNA barcodes of 146 tea products…
…from nuclear genes? In April 2008 Mol Ecol researchers from University of Minnesota and American Museum of Natural History, New York, analyze utility of mitochondrial as compared to nuclear DNA…