FISH-BOL now online

The website for the project we helped start to develop DNA barcodes for all fish, appropriately called “FISH-BOL”, is now on-line at https://www.fishbol.org/….

Big habitat projects flourish

…Nova Scotia, and joined forces to initiate the Barcode of Life initiative, which earned the cover of Canadian Geographic this month. We happily celebrate the anniversaries of these wonderful projects…

First barcode data release paper is published

…of data curation and publication. Hubert N, Hanner R, Holm E, Mandrak NE, Taylor E, et al. (2008) Identifying Canadian Freshwater Fishes through DNA Barcodes. PLoS ONE 3(6): e2490. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0002490…

Okeanos Explorer

…Nantucket and the Canadian border, LT Brian Kennedy was gracious enough to give PHE’s Alan Curry a tour of the research vessel, including a look at their newest remotely-operated-vehicle, Deep…

Bar Code of Life

…Barcode of Life – Canadian Centre for DNA Barcoding (CCDB) – Census of Marine Life (CoML) – Encyclopedia of Life (EOL) – Fish Barcode of Life (FISHBOL) – FishBase – GenoMicron Blog – International Barcode of Life (iBOL) – Marine Barcode of Life (MARBOL) – Plant DNA Barcoding – Polar…

Technical Progress and Climatic Change

JH Ausubel. Energy Policy 23 (4/5): 411–416 1995 Also pp. 501-512 in Integrated Assessment of Mitigation, Impacts, and Adaptation to Climate Change, N Nakicenovic, WD Nordhaus, R Richels, and FL Toth (eds), International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Laxenburg, Austria, 1994.

…number of scientific and technological discoveries, 1400- 1900. Source of data: L. Darmstaedter, 1908. Fear that humanity was running out of inventions partly motivated Darmstaedter’s history. Scientists and engineers themselves…

Decarbonization: The Next 100 Years

…means big individual ZEPPs because the size of generating plants grows even faster than use, though in spurts.  Plants grow because large is cheap, if technology can cope.   Although the last wave…

Related Links

…Environmental Progress PHE collaborates with Environmental Progress, led by Michael Shellenberger, which seeks to lift humans out of poverty, and save the natural environment by removing obstacles to cheap, reliable…

Does Climate Still Matter?

JH Ausubel. Nature 350: 649–652 1991

…a price, services, such as aviation, are now available at almost all times and places. Aviation began as a system that was extremely sensitive to weather and is increasingly less…