eDNA work in progress

…J Mar Sci 2022). eDNA metabarcoding is generally considered a qualitative tool for relative abundance. We hope to help develop eDNA metabarcoding as a quantitative tool for absolute abundance (link

Optimistic About Our Environmental Future

…is looking for a career where he or she could make a difference, why not suggest environmental engineering? On the Net: https://phe.rockefeller.edu. (Mitzi Perdue writes about environmentally related matters for…

Does Energy Policy Matter?

…to sequester all the net increase of carbon dioxide from burning fossil fuels that we do today. Not that you’d ever want to do it, but it is a possibility…

Loglet Lab software version 4

…analysis. All versions of LogletLab are available free of charge. Click here to access LogletLab 4 Here is an example, the space shuttle launch history. https://ll4.ddns.net:8000/?page=index&preload=library.get.288 Thanks to David Burg,…

National Geographic on eDNA

An article by Steve Leahy for National Geographic about our National Conference on Marine Environmental DNA New DNA tool ‘changes everything in marine science’ https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/2018/12/edna-environmental-dna-counts-fish-changes-marine-science/ Also in the news net:…

On Sparing Farmland and Spreading Forest

JH Ausubel. Forestry at the Great Divide: Proceedings of the Society of American Foresters 2001 Convention, Society of American Foresters, Bethesda MD 127–138 2002

…individuals, firms, or the planet. Goals provide orientation. They help actors to aspire and measure progress. In 1999, John Spears, a consultant to the World Bank, developed a preliminary, quantitative…

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)

…himself. Paulus Potter believed the stag’s glowing cross converted St. Hubert to sustainability. The hunter remained unreconstructed. With Paulus and Hubert, we can agree on the vision of a planet

Some Ways to Lessen Worries about Climate Change [PDF]

JH Ausubel. The Electricity Journal 14 (1): 24–33 2001

…humans over much of the planet much of the year. Still, humanity has invested heavily in adjusting to the recent climate. We are attached to the system of reservoirs providing…

Restoring the Forests

DG Victor, JH Ausubel. Foreign Affairs 79 (6): 127–144 2000

…remaining natural forests will disappear altogether. But forests matter. A good deal of the planet’s biological diversity lives in forests (mostly in the tropics), and this diversity diminishes as trees…

Simulating the Academy: Toward Understanding Colleges and Universities as Dynamic Systems

JH Ausubel, R Herman, WF Massy, SV Massy. What Higher Education is Doing Right, W.F. Massy and J.W. Meyerson, eds., Princeton University 107–120 1997 120

…and knowledge structure elitism, social stratification, and diversity academic standards (e.g., admission policies, attrition rates, grade inflation, sports) the rise of foreign student population and links to foreign firms The…