…interest in birds, it is surprising there is no single authoritative world checklist, especially since most of the differences at the species level reflect minor disagreements about generic assignment, a…
…what happened to USA energy use and emissions during the slumps of the 1930s and after World War II.  A short essay, “The Jack Rabbit of Depression, or Do…
…Ausubel on the 20thof November during the AGS Fall Symposium, Geography 2050: Exploring our Future in an Urbanized World, to be held at Columbia University. Here is the press release….
…are also clever traps to catch all the people in the world whose curiosity impels them toward data as if toward light.” An article in October 2008 Scientific American, with…
The 13th Newsletter of the International Quiet Ocean Experiment, now online, include updates on the Global Library of Underwater Sounds (GLUBS) and the World Ocean Passive Acoustic Monitoring (WOPAM) day….
…designed to recover short fragments, rather than one of the newer sequencing technologies, demonstrating the continued power of DNA amplification. In 28 july 2008 BMC Evol Biol Proc a group…
…female trees always lack these distinguishing characters. (It is remarkable that something as large as a tree can sometimes not be identified even by specialists!) In one study (Newmaster, Mol…
…work on eDNA. Also especially notable are Mapping the World’s Oceans by our frequent collaborator Larry A. Mayer, and Using Noise to Image the Ocean by William A. Kuperman. These…
…tissue collection in the world with about 40,000 specimens; searching “LSU AND aves[organism] AND voucher” returned only 1,148 records, which seems likely to underrepresent the museum’s contribution. Results for some…
Discover Magazine named the Census of Marine Life one of “The Six Most Important Experiments in the World” in its December 2007 issue. We are proud to have helped create…