Breakthrough Institute prize
…made a major contribution to realizing a future where all the world’s inhabitants can enjoy secure, free, prosperous, and fulfilling lives on an ecologically vibrant planet.” Jesse was chosen “in…
…made a major contribution to realizing a future where all the world’s inhabitants can enjoy secure, free, prosperous, and fulfilling lives on an ecologically vibrant planet.” Jesse was chosen “in…
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Plant researchers from 11 world herbaria are investigating DNA regions for their potential as barcodes for land plant species. From the project rationale: “although the mitochondrial gene region, CO1 (…
…rate, a world key for the 5500 known Odonates would run to 15,000 pages. The recondite language that is required to describe morphologic detail in this and other keys makes…
…a simple question to a handful of relevant experts. This week’s question is: Is the world overpopulated? Jesse Ausubel draws on our carrying capacity work to offer an answer: https://earther.gizmodo.com/is-the-world-really-overpopulated-1834854464…
The International Quiet Ocean Experiment (IQOE) in 2023 gave birth to World Ocean Passive Acoustic Monitoring (WOPAM) Day. The excellent 2024 WOPAM Day video can be seen at https://x.com/GLUBS1/status/1798995048522277190. The…
…status. Of the species examined so far (I estimate about 1/3 of the 10,000 world birds), most demonstrate a similar patterning of limited mtDNA differences within species and relatively large…
The crew of NOAA’s Okeanos Explorer recently spent six days in New York at the halfway point of their Northeast US Canyons Expedition. Before departing for the continental shelf between…
Mark Stoeckle’s work using environmental DNA (eDNA) to detect fish in and around New York City is featured on NYU’s ScienceLine. By analyzing the tiny bits of DNA fish and…
…new analysis shows how little bits of DNA shed by fish track the seasonal movements of fish populations in and out of New York Harbor. eDNA also gives a picture…