Oceans
The spectacular [website for the Oceans film of Galatee Films produced by Jacques Perrin], made in partnership with the Census of Marine Life and Sloan Foundation, goes public. We think…
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Coach and the Fly
Are USA carbon dioxide emissions now around their “natural†peak?  Following up on our postings 589 and 585 on 20 April 2009, we post a trio of figures that…
DNA plus morphology speeds taxonomy
In May 2008 PLoS One researchers from California Academy of Sciences and University of Guelph analyze morphology and COI barcodes of Madagascar ants in genera Anochetus and Odontomachus. Their taxonomic…
Technology will save us
The 23 September 2009 issue of New Scientist magazine publishes an interview about population with Jesse….
A Scalable Method for Analysis and Display of DNA Sequences
Together with colleagues at Mt. Sinai School of Medicine, we report a new mathematical approach to the genetic structure of biodiversity, using indicator vectors calculated from short DNA sequences. Sirovich…
The (New) Web of Life by Alan Burdick
On Earth, the quarterly magazine of the NRDC, published a detailed article, The (New) Web of Life , by Alan Burdick about the history and progress of the Encyclopedia of…
EPRI and the Lamellibrancid Worm
What does electric power have to do with sea worms? Learn in Jesse’s talk “EPRI and the Lamellibrancid Worm” which spans zero emission power plants and deep carbon….
“Son et lumiere” – Exciting Updates
A slightly revised version of Jesse’s May 2009 Dalhousie University Commencement Address, Son et lumiere, is published on 23 November 2009 by the monthly science magazine, SEED, as Broadening the…
Census of Marine Life in the news
The deep sea projects of the Census of Marine Life make news with their discoveries, as for example covered by AP’s Cain Burdeau in a 22 November 2009 story “Thousands…
The Big Picture
The quarterly magazine of Woods Hole’s Marine Biologicial Laboratory, Catalyst (Vol. 4, No. 2,Fall 2009), publishes an interview with Jesse, “The Big Picture†about the Encyclopedia of Life….