Poisonous fish revealed
…approximately 1700 and 660 names, respectively. And yet DNA surveys regularly turn up fish in the marketplace that are not on any regulatory list, as well as mislabeling of those…
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Nordhaus Nobel
William Nordhaus today earned the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics for his pioneering work on climate change. Hooray for Bill! Jesse first encountered Bill’s work in the late 1970s, started…
Learning about lichens with DNA
…EOL podcast on lichen–“a tropical rainforest in miniature”). Today about 13,500 species are described (lichens are named for fungal component), representing 18% of the 74,000 known fungi. It is remarkable…
National Conference on Marine eDNA
Today begins our National Conference on Marine Environmental DNA. A press release describes the purposes and previews some findings. The meeting is part of the continuing Monmouth University-Rockefeller University Marine…
NY Times again per K&L
…entry) evoked a NY Times sequel story where chefs claimed supreme expertise, but then today Edward Dolnick countered with a wise Op-Ed “Fish or Foul” about the judgment of experts….
Worried taxonomists see future, declare it won’t work
In 1987, the few dozen GPS models available were mostly larger than 200 cu in and cost $15,000 to $45,000. (https://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1988inna.meet..158C) Today there are thousands of models, many for under…
Sloan Digital Archive
…its collections of the September 11 Digital Archive. For the press release about the accession visit https://www.loc.gov/today/pr/2003/03-142.html , while the Symposium program and eventually its webcast are at https://www.loc.gov/rr/program/911symposium/ ….
Barcoding in Scientific American
An engaging and amusingly illustrated update on DNA Barcoding by Mark Stoeckle and Paul Hebert appears in the October 2008 issue of Scientific American, on newsstands and web today, with…
Ocean Biodiversity Information System publishes fish eDNA (genomic) data set, based on work by Stoeckle et al
…contains over 109 million records from over 180,000 species, about 70% of described marine species, and offers wonderful data access, archiving, and visualization. Today, thanks to software wizardry and persistence…
Antarctic CoML in the NYT
The New York Times recognizes the work of the Antarctic team of the Census of Marine Life in an editorial today. Jesse had the privilege with the CoML Scientific Steering…