Okeanos Explorer

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…

National Conference on Marine eDNA

…University-Rockefeller University Marine Science and Policy Initiative. We are exploring the marine waters of New York City and New Jersey with eDNA. Some of our work is posted here https://phe.rockefeller.edu/barcode/blog/nycnj-aquatic-vertebrate-edna-project/…

East River eDNA

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…

Census of Marine Life in the news

The deep sea projects of the Census of Marine Life make news with their discoveries, as for example covered by AP’s Cain Burdeau in a 22 November 2009 story “Thousands…

PNAS publishes Forests paper

The PNAS has published our new paper “Returning forests analyzed with the forest identity.” We also post a press release about it from the U. of Helsinki and a map…

Passing of marine biologist Ron O’Dor

…curious, good-humored colleague.  Jesse first met Ron in December 1997 at a meeting at the New England Aquarium to assess the feasibility of censusing the “non-fish nekton.” Ron represented the

Bob Herman

…materialization, dematerialization, and cities. https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=7Yiedy4AAAAJ&hl=en The site makes the scope, significance and impact of Bob’s work accessible to a new generation. Impressively, more than 15 years after Bob passed away,…

National Cockroach Project

…types that differ by NYC neighborhood. The WSJ story prompted an interview for Channel 4 TV news, complete with cockroach close-ups, and coverage in the London Times and US Metro….