4th Int’l Barcode of Life Conference

For the 4th International Barcode of Life conference beginning 29 November in Adelaide, Australia, Mark Stoeckle led the preparation of the 2011 DNA Barcoding Highlights report while Jesse worked with…

4th International Barcode of Life Conference

The 4th International Barcode of Life Conference held in Adelaide, Australia, in December 2011 has now posted the presentations, including Mark Stoeckle on the All Birds Barcoding Initiative. Also posted…

National Cockroach Project

…analyzed using DNA barcoding about 120 of 200 cockroaches collected by colleagues, friends, and family, or mailed in by citizen scientists around the country (including specimens from Australia and Spain)….

Barcoding Highlights 2013

…page pdf takes a look at notable developments since the 2011 conference in Adelaide, Australia, offers a big picture view of barcoding’s flourishing first decade, and features hot links to…

On Sparing Farmland and Spreading Forest

JH Ausubel. Forestry at the Great Divide: Proceedings of the Society of American Foresters 2001 Convention, Society of American Foresters, Bethesda MD 127–138 2002

…spread. Before giving the answer, let me broaden the context. GREAT REVERSAL, GREAT RESTORATION By the 1990s evidence accumulated that several major environmental indicators had passed an inflection point (Ausubel…

Restoring the Forests

DG Victor, JH Ausubel. Foreign Affairs 79 (6): 127–144 2000

…virgin wood into useful products. Changing tastes and technological advances are already lightening pressure on forests. Concrete, steel, and plastics have replaced much of the wood once used in railroad

The Great Reversal: Nature’s Chance to Restore Land and Sea

JH Ausubel. Technology in Society 22: 289–302 2000

…in Barcelona, Spain. The marine section of the paper was added after the Barcelona meeting. The final version of the paper appears in the journal Technology In Society, Vol. 22:289-301, 2000….

Reasons to Worry About the Human Environment

JH Ausubel. Journal of the Cosmos Club of Washington D.C 8 (1): 12 1998 Republished in Technology in Society 21:217-231, 1999. 

…significant amounts continue to dissipate, creating chances for unintentional ingestion.6 Hippocrates recognized acute lead toxicity in ancient Greek miners. The sweetening and preserving of sour wines with lead–containing additives began…

International Conflicts over Environment: Scientist’s Roles and Opportunities

JH Ausubel. Scientific Cooperation, State Conflict: The Role of Scientists in Mitigating International Discord, "Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences" 866: 253–258 1998

…of historical or prospective conflict relating to environment and resources and then I will offer some tentative conclusions. Adding the notion of resources to that of the environment may unfairly…

Elektron: Electrical Systems in Retrospect and Prospect

JH Ausubel, C Marchetti. Technological Trajectories and the Human Environment 110–134 1997 Also appeared in Daedalus 125(3):139-169, Summer 1996.

…once the interface between mechanical and electrical power had been i nvented, the niche for expansion proved immense.3 Power for the Workshop Since the Middle Ages, water wheels had provided…