OneNOAA Science Seminar online

Mark Stoeckle presented recent eDNA work assessing marine fish diversity and abundance at OneNOAA Science Seminar Series on August 26, 2020. The recorded presentation and lively discussion is available online

Full PDR issue online

The entire issue of Population and Development Review with our article about Peak Farmland is now online: Population and Public Policy: Essays in Honor of Paul Demeny https://www.popcouncil.org/publications/books/2012_PDRSuppPopPublicPolicy.asp and will…

“Taxonomy for the twenty-first century” and “DNA barcoding of life”: special theme issues of Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society available online

…of meiobenthic organisms based on ribosomal RNA signature sequences by Melanie Markmann and Diethard Tautz DNA-based species delineation in tropical beetles using mitochondrial and nuclear markers by Michael T. Monaghan,…

Maglevs and the Vision of St. Hubert [PDF]

JH Ausubel. Challenges of a Changing Earth 175–182 2002 (Proceedings of the Global Change Open Science Conference, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 10-13 July 2001)

…places might lift fish yields by a factor of hundreds. Challenges abound because the ocean moves and mixes, both vertically and horizontally. Nevertheless, technically and economically promising proposals exist for…

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. 

…the technologies that enable compliance. In a more general way, the chance that small leaks from our industrial system have large behavioral consequences intensifies my interest in industrial ecology.l6 Industrial ecology…

The Environment Since 1970

JH Ausubel, DG Victor, IK Wernick. Consequences: The Nature and Implications of Environmental Change 1 (3): 2–15 1995

…potential practical value of species but from ethics that emphasize the intrinsic value of all species and ecosystems. Integral to the issue of biological diversity is the question of deforestation,…

Optimistic About Our Environmental Future

…young and mutual grooming. The third and largest area of our brains, the neocortex, is the part that makes humans unique. The neocortex makes possible intellectual tasks such as reading,…

Chernobyl After Perestroika: Reflections on a Recent Visit

JH Ausubel. Technology in Society 14: 187–198 1992

…rises, changes, and falls in political and economic systems? Fourth is the need to consider the international status of sites of environmental hazards as well as environmental beauty. Scientists and…