IE Reflections posted
We notice that the 1992 paper “Industrial Ecology: Reflections on a Colloquium” (Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA) has been published online: https://www.pnas.org/cgi/reprint/89/3/879 We also have a copy on our server:…
We notice that the 1992 paper “Industrial Ecology: Reflections on a Colloquium” (Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA) has been published online: https://www.pnas.org/cgi/reprint/89/3/879 We also have a copy on our server:…
Some of our papers are available as PDF documents only. If you do not have a PDF reader installed, you can get Adobe Reader from the Abode website, www.adobe.com. You…
The Sunday 5 June Independent published an excellent article about forests by Andrew Marszal that reports on our recent analysis of forest density….
RockEDU summer students Priyam Shah and Michael Epelman, who just completed high school, teamed with mentor extraordinaire Mark Stoeckle to study the fishes of an NYC Superfund Site, Newtown Creek. …
…would be. Ten years later there are numerous, diverse applications, ranging from a smartphone app for finding the nearest post office in Australia to tracking animals across the Pacific. Like…
Genes, Germs and Medicine: The Life of Joshua Lederberg by U. of Toronto historian of science Jan Sapp has just been published. The book provides an engaging, balanced, and perceptive…
…surveying biodiversity approaches completion. Just as high-resolution satellite mapping has surpassed most ground surveys in accuracy, speed, and cost, we need efficient technologies that can help detect and monitor species…
…mitochondrial DNA, just as there are many species with apparent morphologic stasis. However, in simple distance trees most species show roughly similar genetic distances. I am intrigued by a time…
…products in the marketplace. DNA barcoding is designed to be just that. The Food and Drug Adminstration (FDA) Regulatory Fish Encyclopedia (RFE) aims “to assist with the accurate identification of…
The biological universe is much larger and more diverse than we thought. In three papers in March 2007 PLoS Biology, scientists report on a genetic survey of microbial diversity in…