Short videos of Galatee’s The Seasons

…Jesse Ausubel served as a science advisor, great 30-second Japanese teaser: https://youtu.be/pRHfSgdCXMs And a 1 minute 42 second teaser: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SdLrFO06yM8 And one that shows some of the film’s techniques: https://www.facebook.com/LesSaisons.lefilm/videos/1132390206780130/…

eDNA and Loch Ness

…in an AP Television segment about searching for the Loch Ness monster using eDNA. Mark’s interview and footage begins about 2 minutes 50 seconds into the 8-minute segment. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d5UPXmP5YE0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nj8qoHoa0Vg…

Reuters article on COVID-19 & Quiet Ocean Experiment

…before propeller-driven ships and boats spanned the globe? https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-climate-research-i/pandemic-offers-scientists-unprecedented-chance-to-hear-oceans-as-they-once-were-idUSKBN23F1M3 even picked up by the New York Times: https://www.nytimes.com/reuters/2020/06/08/us/08reuters-health-coronavirus-climate-research-insight.html and in the hard copy edition of the Washington Post. The 2009…

Fishing for DNA paper published

…at the 47 sec. mark, 5 1/2 minutes): https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p04yxshm#play A 40 sec. clip is also posted here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p04zzxsh https://www.flyfisherman.com/news/edna-bread-crumbs-track-migrating-fish/ Smithsonian magazine How teeny bits of leftover DNA help scientists track…

Optimistic About Our Environmental Future

…news is that technology is enabling us to have less impact on the environment. For example, improved agricultural technology means less land needs to be cultivated. “If, during the next…

National Cockroach Project

September 30 Wall Street Journal featured our National Cockroach Project (NCP) in an illustrated story “Why cockroaches stay in your neighborhood”. The National Cockroach team consists of PHE researcher Mark…

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

…each year in the 1990s as in 1900. Industrial ecologists call a ratio of material to GDP its intensity of use. Because the annual percentage change of GDP is the…

Restoring the Forests

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

…small fraction of industrial wood. Such arrangements, in which forest dwellers, often indigenous peoples, earn revenue from commercial timber, can provide essential protection to woodlands and their inhabitants. Changes in…