Jesse Ausubel to receive 2022 Nierenberg Prize

and the Nierenberg Family to honor the memory of William A. Nierenberg, an esteemed physicist and national science leader who served Scripps Oceanography as director for two decades. Previous awardees…

An adaptation of Jesse’s

An adaptation of Jesse’s keynote address to the fall 2000 Business Roundtable’s National Summit on Technology and Climate Change appears in the January-February issue of The Electricity Journal….

Testing DNA barcodes to help identify biodiversity hotspot plants including endangered and cryptic species

…from University of Johannesburg; University of Costa Rica; Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew; and Imperial College, London, analyze potential barcode regions on specimens collected in plant biodiversity hotspots in Kruger National

Okeanos Explorer

…Deep Discoverer, profiled here: https://oceanexplorer.noaa.gov/okeanos/explorations/ex1302/new_rov_video.html Defining a national strategy for ocean exploration was the aim of a recent three-day conference in Long Beach, CA, which Jesse helped to plan: https://oceanexplorer.noaa.gov/oceanexploration2020/participate/welcome.html…

The paper “A framework

The paper “A framework for sustainability science: A renovated IPAT identity” is published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences….

Zookeys

Open access journal ZooKeys announced the first rapid-release, large dataset of bird barcodes, based on 2,808 frozen tissue samples from the Division of Birds, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian…