On Sparing Farmland and Spreading Forest
We post Jesse’s “On Sparing Farmland and Spreading Forest.” Prepared as a plenary talk for the September 2001 Denver convention of the Society of American Foresters, it was not delivered…
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Centennial meeting of petroleum geologists
Jesse Ausubel speaks in Houston at the 4 April 2017 session of the centennial meeting of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists on the next 100 years of energy use….
Mitochondrial DNA’s unique power
…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…
The Electric Power Research
The Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) celebrated the 90th birthday of EPRI founder Chauncey Starr with a seminar on the prospects for a North American continental supergrid for electricity transmission,…
New places to find DNA
…many museum specimens that might be used. For example, the American Museum of Natural History Icthyology Department collection includes over 35,000 fish skeletons as compared to about 2,500 tissue samples…
Update-Cardiovascular vs. Cancer
…contributer to the steady decline in cardiovascular deaths since 1965 and the more recent flattening of cancer-deaths. For example, epidemiologists associated with the American Cancer Society recently reported a 30%…
Avian catalogue still incomplete
…In 2004, Robert Zink examined in detail 41 widely-distributed N American birds, and found an average of 1.9 “historically significant units” per species, i.e., distinct mtDNA clusters, most or all…
Lounsbery Political Attitudes
The Richard Lounsbery Foundation sponsored a new survey of political attitudes of American professors by Neil Gross (Harvard) and Solon Simmons (George Mason U.). Jesse offered opening remarks on behalf…
DNA helps reveal bat diets
…the 127,000 reference sequences of North American arthropods in BOLD database www.barcodinglife.org at the time of the study. Test sequences with >/=99% identity to reference sequence(s) and without equivalent similarity…
East Coast eDNA researchers
Our environmental DNA discovery of unusual fish is featured in the American Fisheries Society blog. The post highlights the growing complement of East Coast eDNA researchers, including our NOAA colleague…