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…
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…
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….
Sloan Digital Archive
…its collections of the September 11 Digital Archive. For the press release about the accession visit https://www.loc.gov/today/pr/2003/03-142.html , while the Symposium program and eventually its webcast are at https://www.loc.gov/rr/program/911symposium/ ….
Ocean Biodiversity Information System publishes fish eDNA (genomic) data set, based on work by Stoeckle et al
Way back in 1999, Jesse Ausubel, Fred Grassle, Mark Costello, Edward van den Berghe, James Edwards and others began to envisage an on-line ocean biogeographical information system (OBIS) to enable…
Antarctic CoML in the NYT
The New York Times recognizes the work of the Antarctic team of the Census of Marine Life in an editorial today. Jesse had the privilege with the CoML Scientific Steering…
DNA Barcode In New York Times
Today’s New York Times Science Times section has an article A Species in a Second: Promise of DNA ‘Bar Codes’ with a good history of the DNA Barcode project and…
CoML Press Release
The Census of Marine Life issued today a press release, largely prepared by Jesse, about its highlights for 2005. 2005 has been a great year for the CoML….
American Superconductor Corporartion
We and our associates are well-known fans of magnetically levitated trains for high-speed transport. We are pleased to learn that the experimental Japanese maglev train attained speeds as high as…