What limits Japanese encephalitis virus (JEV) to its current range? JEV is a mosquito-transmitted flavivirus related to yellow fever and West Nile viruses that causes approximately 40,000 human cases annually…
New essay on the Great Reversal of the destruction of nature on-line….
On 7 July 2014 Jesse Ausubel was interviewed by Heather Goldstone in her public radio program “Living Lab.” A short article describes the interview, which focused on questions of land…
RealClearScience publishes Jesse Ausubel’s short essay “We must make nature worthless,” based on remarks he prepared for a 6 November 2014 seminar at Resources for the Future….
Following the first Banbury workshop in March 2003, Jesse Ausubel and I wrote a “Draft Scientific Rationale and Strategy” that described DNA barcoding as ““Google” for Life Forms” (with the…
Continuing our exploration of human populations with logistic wavelets, David Burg and Jesse Ausubel publish Jewish population trajectories between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea Open Access in the…
Paul De Barro, CSIRO, Australia, recently posed the question “What is the expected level of mitochondrial variation within species?” The answer may be “almost none”. Results so far with DNA…
The Department of Commerce has established a new Panel on Ocean Exploration on which Jesse is serving. The work of the panel is described at https://oceanpanel.nos.noaa.gov….
With great photographs from researchers Mike Johnson, Rob Lasley, and Uwe Piatkowski, PHE’s Mark Stoeckle has created three beautiful Census of Marine Life stamps. Simply click on each stamp to…
On 10 September 2000 our beloved friend and valued colleague William A. Nierenberg, former director of Scripps Institution of Oceanography, passed away. A Tribute was prepared for the Memorial Service…