10th Anniversary of Census of Marine Life
…Changing Ocean Exploring a Census of Marine Life Today. Jesse Ausubel gave the opening talk, a 25-minute retrospective on the CoML. We post a pdf of the slides here. We…
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Poisonous fish revealed
…identification was incomplete. It would be of interest to repeat the database searches (as of today GenBank contains 1 L. lunaris COI sequence and BOLD taxonomy browser lists 2), but…
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…
World species census updated
…distribution of diversity on a larger scale? Large databases of homologous sequences representing diverse species (aka DNA barcodes; as of today, BOLD has over 700,000 records representing over 64,000 species)…
Visualizing birds so far
…of Russia, Kazakhstan, and Mongolia (not just the eastern half of Russia as highlighted in map). Note added 24 March 2011: Map corrected to show collecting region for eastern Palearctic…
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…
Matt Ridley on Peak Farmland
…of cropland use, gazing at a wide expanse of land that will be spared for Nature.” If not for biofuels, say scientists, farmland usage would already be declining. Jesse Ausubel…
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…