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…

Rare minerals

Hard copy version of our paper applying concepts of rarity in biology to rarity in geology published: American Mineralogist, June 2016; 101 (6) Invited Centennial Article On the nature and…

GoFish

Our “GoFish” paper is published in PLOS ONE (Stoeckle MY, Mishu MD, Charlop-Powers Z. GoFish: a versatile nested PCR strategy for environmental DNA assays for marine vertebrates). From water collection…

Agricultural Technology and its Societal Implications

We post “Agricultural Technology and its Societal Implications” by our esteemed associate Paul Waggoner.  The paper, which leads off the 25th anniversary issue of Technology in Society, likens society’s choices…

Salmon Tracking

…Rocky Mountains, down the Columbia River, and up to Alaska . A press release occasioned by a paper in PLOS Biology earns attention, including a Reuters article that quotes Jesse,…

Diamonds and Deep Gas

In 1981, geologist John Saul wrote what may be a classic paper on diamonds and deep gas, which we now post to our site. The full reference is: John M….

Barcode Human Evolution

Mark Stoeckle and David Thaler’s (former RU colleague, now at University of Basel) paper on what DNA barcodes reveal about human evolution and vice versa, entitled “Bridging two scholarly islands…