On February 18, 2011 the Martha’s Vineyard Gazette ran a story about Jesse and the Census of Marine Life, including the new lobster Dinochelus ausubeli….
In 2008, with Robert Hazen and Russell Hemley of the Carnegie Institution of Washington, Jesse helped initiate the Deep Carbon Observatory (DCO) with support from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation….
We post Leonardo DNA Project: Strategy, goals and aspirations. A bridge across science and art. This is the chapter from Leonardo da Vinci, The Faces of Genius, the superb 2019…
PHE guest investigator David Thaler summarizes “Ways in which contamination might be distinguished from authentic human eDNA” in a useful draft memo. Meeting this challenge matters greatly for using human…
…photographs, it was not possible to identify the exact species, in this case whether this was an Allen’s (S. sasin) or Rufous (S. rufus), species native to the western U.S….
Front. Mar. Sci., 05 May 2020 | https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2020.00226 Improved Environmental DNA Reference Library Detects Overlooked Marine Fishes in New Jersey, United States Mark Y. Stoeckle*, Mithun Das Mishu and Zachary…
We are long-time admirers of Michael Shellenberger and Ted Nordhaus, who co-founded The Breakthrough Institute in 2003. TBI award Jesse Ausubel its annual prize in 2014, and Iddo Wernick has…
The lead story in the US National Museum of Natural History 2005 Annual Report: New Tools for Understanding Nature, entitled “Barcoding the Planet” highlights the museum’s organizational and research involvement…
Added online reprints Malthus and the Graduate Studentsand Working Less and Living Longer. Link to the American Scientist web site with the abstract of Can Technology Spare the Earth?…
Journalist Fred Pearce interviewed Jesse for New Scientist magazine. The version published in the 28 January 2006 issue of the magazine omits about 500 words of the version we post…