Salmon Tracking
The continental shelf tracking (“POSTâ€) project of the Census of Marine Life has tracked salmon the size of a banana 2500 km from pools in the Snake River in the…
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CoML Highlights 2008
The Census of Marine Life releases its 4th Highlights Report, a press release about the highlights, and spectacular images. Among the highlights are the Antarctic ancestry of many octopus, the…
Is Richer Greener?
2 December 2008 Jesse presented a seminar on the question Is Richer Greener? at the request of Rockefeller University graduate students. We post the slides from the talk, which was…
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…
Paul McCartney writes song for CoML Film
Beatle Paul McCartney’s blog confirms he is writing a song for the Jacques Perrin’s Ocean film made in cooperation with the Census of Marine Life….
WSJ Tucker
An opinion piece in the 29 December 2008 Wall Street Journal by William Tucker quotes Jesse’s low view of investments in so-called renewable energy sources from this interview in Weltwoche…
Advances & Challenges in Global Observing Systems for Marine Life
Annually the directors of the major bluewater ocean science institutions meet as the Partnership for Observation of the Global Ocean (POGO https://www.ocean-partners.org ). On 7 January 2009 Jesse addressed the…
Deepwater clam mtDNAs map in unexplored sequence territory
Approximately 8,000 – 15,000 species of bivalves (clams, mussels, scallops, oysters, and relatives) are known. According to BOLD Taxonomy Browser www.barcodinglife.org, 620 bivalve species have COI barcode records so far,…
Soy el arbol!!
In Chile in early January we visited some of the world’s largest tree plantations as well as the wondrous intact indigenous forest of Isla Mocha. Thanks to Savithri Narayanan for…
Encylopedia of Life opens, another step toward global commons of biodiversity knowledge
On February 27, 2008, Encyclopedia of Life (EOL), “a web page for every species” officially launched, with over 30,000 species pages, mostly fish so far, and a diversity of links…