Political fallout: What fate awaits Chernobyl in the new world order?
…the Bella Bennett of the Martha’s Vineyard Times covered our initial findings about eDNA on the Island: https://www.mvtimes.com/2017/08/02/fishing-for-dna/ We found some cool things in the new locations. For example, Mill…
…stores use to track merchandise, he named these short sequences “DNA barcodes.” My colleagues and I set down thoughts inspired by this new name: “Commercial barcodes and the barcode of…
…project including Mark Schaefer, Assistant Director for Environment, White House Office of Science and Technology Policy; Margaret Hamburg, M.D., Commissioner, New York City Department of Health; Debora Martin, U.S. Environmental…
…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…
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 (…
…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…