Undiscovered species lurking in museum drawers
Four whales stranded on the coast of California in the 1970s were identified as Hector’s beaked whale Mesoplodon hectori (Mead 1981 J Mammalogy 62:430). 20 years later mitochondrial DNA analysis…
Four whales stranded on the coast of California in the 1970s were identified as Hector’s beaked whale Mesoplodon hectori (Mead 1981 J Mammalogy 62:430). 20 years later mitochondrial DNA analysis…
Jesse’s comment about Vern Ruttan’s article on technologies that might transform the economy appeared in the spring issue of the journal Issues in Science and Technology….
WGBH’s Living Lab radio program hosted by Heather Goldstone interviewed Jesse Ausubel for 30 minutes about his views on the global environment. The radio interview was stimulated by Jesse’s lecture…
With funding from the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, researchers at Reveo, Inc. and the University of Washington are collaborating on developing a grapefruit-sized sequencer. It uses electronic and photonic…
The Census of Marine Life issued a press release 4 May on a cruise to look at sea bugs deep beneath the Bermuda Triangle….
Samara Davis’ poster on “Detection of Threatened Pool-Breeding Amphibians with eDNA Analysis” for the Northeast Partners in Reptile and Amphibian Conservation conference won top prize for undergraduate presentation—nice recognition for…
A 5 Nov 2022 Wall Street Journal article by Holman Jenkins cites JH Ausubel. Renewable and nuclear heresies . Int J Nucl Governance, Econ Ecol 1 (3): 229–243, 2007 and…
…later based in part on mitochondrial DNA characters (Wada et al. 2003. Nature 426:278) Does this look like 1904? Honeybee mite Varroa jacobsoni described in 1904. In 1970’s, worldwide epidemic…
Jesse appeared on CNN in a special entitled “Our Changing Climate: The Great Debate.” Jesse is also quoted on the CNNÂ website….
In 1982 Jesse translated from Italian into English about 200 pages from the unpublished diaries of Fey von Hassell, who had grown up in Rome in the 1930s as daughter…