…Nature Useless: Relative Dematerialization & Absolute Peaks. We also post Jesse’s brief (3-page) prepared remarks, On Useless Nature, subsequently published in RealClearScience (18 Sept 2015). Some coverage at https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/can-humans-and-nature-co-exist/ https://reason.com/archives/2014/11/10/making-nature-useless…
…full soundtrack for WOPAM Day 2024 is at: https://www.wo-pam.com/wopam-2024 (scroll down and see the link). Congratulations to Miles Parsons and other team members on extending the 2024 monitoring to about…
…DNA in seawater offers a new measure of marine populations Agencia EFE, Spain El análisis del ADN ambiental permite saber el número de peces de los océanos https://www.infobae.com/america/agencias/2020/12/03/el-analisis-del-adn-ambiental-permite-saber-el-numero-de-peces-de-los-oceanos/ Tencent, Mainland…
…with Monmouth University) are at https://phe.rockefeller.edu/barcode/blog/nycnj-aquatic-vertebrate-edna-project/ This project aims to detect fish and other vertebrates in freshwater and marine habitats by analyzing the traces of DNA they leave behind in the water….
…passed the 1 million mark. Encyclopedia of Life reaches historic ‘one million species pages … ‎Phys.Org – 11 May 2012 For some history, see https://phe.rockefeller.edu/archives/388 https://phe.rockefeller.edu/archives/352 https://phe.rockefeller.edu/archives/386 …
Approximately 8,000 – 15,000 species of bivalves (clams, mussels, scallops, oysters, and relatives) are known. According to BOLD Taxonomy Browser www.barcodinglife.org, 620 bivalve species have COI barcode records so far,…
The Science Plan of the International Quiet Ocean Experiment (IQOE) has been published and is available in pdf (see https://www.scor-int.org/IQOE/IQOE_Science_Plan-Final.pdf) and printed formats. Thanks to Peter Tyack, George Frist, Ed…
…climate negotiators cleanly to their next meeting. Nuclear fission probably, or possibly some other non-carbon alternative, will eventually close the hydrocarbon fuel era. Nuclear plants can economically make electricity by…
…as a means of species discovery (for more, see www.barcoding.si.edu; www.barcodinglife.org). In addition to helping identify what is already known, DNA analysis can reveal what would otherwise remain hidden. In…
…from cloned PCR products; these gave 2 divergent clones in 3 of seven cases, for a total of 81 different trnL intron sequences. Why use trnL intron? The authors cite…