EOL Videos

The 8-9 May 2007 public launch of the Encyclopedia of Life included short appearances by Jesse on Reuters television and on the CBC evening news….

CoML Bluefin Tuna

The abundance of bluefin tuna in the North Atlantic are the subject of a Census of Marine Life press release . The original tuna papers as well as tuna images…

APPEA address published

The Australian Petroleum Production and Exploration Association has published Jesse’s April 2007 Plenary address “The Future Environment for the Energy Business” in the 2007 APPEA Journal. A key theme of…

Werewolf Microbes

“Werewolf Microbes might take power!” The e-zine Energy Tribune interviewed Jesse for its subscribers. We post the entire interview conducted by Robert Bryce….

CBOL Taipei

The movement to create a library of DNA barcodes for plants, animals, and fungi began with the Cold Spring Harbor Banbury meeting that Jesse Ausubel and Mark Stoeckle helped organize…

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…

Wood H to C ratio

The current madness for biofuels has raised again the question of the proper hydrogen-to-carbon ratio to use to index wood and other biomass against other fuels. We offer a note…

New York Times “dot earth” Poppies

New York Times environment reporter Andrew Revkin has launched a new “dot earth” blot with an entry about population that draws on the work of the Program for the Human…

Telescopes and DNA Barcodes

Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory’s Banbury Conference Center hosted the pair of meetings in 2003 that gave birth to the DNA barcoding movement. Jesse opened the Banbury meeting 28 October 2007…

Future Knowledge of Life in Oceans

We post “Future Knowledge of Life in Oceans Past”, the published version of Jesse’s opening speech to the October 2005 Census of Marine Life conference on Oceans Past (see What’s…