International Conflicts over Environment: Scientist’s Roles and Opportunities

JH Ausubel. Scientific Cooperation, State Conflict: The Role of Scientists in Mitigating International Discord, "Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences" 866: 253–258 1998

…clippers, like garden shears, to cut the nets of British fishing trawlers, causing the loss of both nets and catches. Iceland broke diplomatic relations with the United Kingdom for a…

Added online reprints Malthus

Added online reprints Malthus and the Graduate Studentsand Working Less and Living Longer. Link to the American Scientist web site with the abstract of Can Technology Spare the Earth?…

Barcoding of Life Conference a success!

…and Smithsonian Institution. Excellent worldwide press coverage (link to attached pdf of barcode coverage). Our new barcoding brochure was well received at conference and downloaded heavily from our revamped website,…

Dematerialization

Marian Tupy makes ingenious use of our work on Dematerialization: Among our numerous papers on this theme are: JH Ausubel, PE Waggoner. Dematerialization: variety, caution, and persistence [external link]. Proc…

Macroscopes for Science lecture

…University of Florence, Italy, hosted by laser expert Roberto Bini. The hour-long audio of the lecture is at the link above, with the slides also showing once their turns come….

Ocean Exploration 2012 final report

…Ocean Exploration’s Second Decade, in Washington DC to NOAA Administrator Jane Lubchenco and other senior officials. [This post has been updated to fix the link to the presidential panel report.]…

Cockroach

…6, 2015 in Nature’s open access journal Scientific Reports (link to article). This paper is the culmination of PHE’s National Cockroach Project  which enticed 85 citizen scientists to contribute…

Jesse’s remarks at DCO Rome meeting

…closing remarks in Italian at the 9 October symposium of the Deep Carbon Observatory at the Accademia dei Lincei in Rome. An English translation is also included at the link….