…work. An entire subset of underwater acoustics, signal processing and code-design has been largely ignored in traditional fisheries applications. The entire field of passive acoustics is under-utilized for species that…
Zoonotic viruses are like introduced species–most perish, a few cause localized outbreaks, and a tiny fraction spread widely. Unfortunately, the tiny fraction have ruinous potential. Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), a…
JH Ausubel.
Technology in Society
14:
187–198
1992
…of many Americans left those lands behind and harder to understand why people have fought so hard over them. Sometimes people fight most where the stakes are low. Certainly rural…
JH Ausubel.
Bulletin de l'Institut océanographique, Monaco
20 (1):
67
2001
Bulletin de l'Institut océanographique, Monaco, no spécial 20, fascicule 1
…oceans is not over. The second reason for a Census is improved management of marine resources. Big opportunities exist to improve management of fisheries and other human uses of the…
JH Ausubel.
Journal of the Cosmos Club of Washington D.C
8 (1):
12
1998
Republished in Technology in Society 21:217-231, 1999.
…change and loss of biodiversity. Conveying the reasons for my sanguine outlook justifies the apparent digression. CLIMATE AND BIODIVERSITY I do not fear climate change, because the human economy is…
JH Ausubel, C Marchetti.
Technological Trajectories and the Human Environment
110–134
1997
Also appeared in Daedalus 125(3):139-169, Summer 1996.
…round about him. Ezekiel 1:27 (circa 595 b.c.) In the ancient world, electrum (Hebrew) or elektron (Greek) was the material amber. Amber, when rubbed and electrified, preferably with cat fur, moved and lifted dust…
Our new cool-looking PHE website is up and running, thanks especially to Jason Yung and Mark Stoeckle. A brand new publications database ties everything together, thanks to diligence of Smriti…
JH Ausubel.
Challenges of a Changing Earth
175–182
2002
(Proceedings of the Global Change Open Science Conference, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 10-13 July 2001)
…planting rates, at least one billion cubic meters of wood — half the world’s supply — could come from plantations by the year 2050. Semi-natural forests — for example, those…
JH Ausubel.
The Electricity Journal
14 (1):
24–33
2001
…humans over much of the planet much of the year. Still, humanity has invested heavily in adjusting to the recent climate. We are attached to the system of reservoirs providing…
…these facilities, 176 reported at least one extremely hazardous substance (EHS). EPA considers these chemicals to be the ones most likely to have severe toxic effects on human beings exposed…