European Barcode Conference

With about 130 other experts from 28 countries, Mark Stoeckle and Jesse Ausubel attended the European Consortium for the Barcode of Life (ECBOL), Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences, and

100 million years without sex: COI clustering in bdelloid rotifers challenges theories of how species are formed and maintained

Why are there species? The usual answer is sex: reproductive isolation maintains differences between species and reproductive mixing maintains similarity within species. According to recent work with bdelloid (the “b”…

Coverage of Columbia’s 1999 “State

Coverage of Columbia’s 1999 “State of the Planet Conference” in the Boston Globe. *No longer available, contact phe@rockefeller.edu if you wish more information….

We newly post “Dematerialization,” our

We newly post “Dematerialization,” our 1989 paper that popularized the use of that word in environmental studies and helped start a wave of research about it….

Smithsonian exhibit about Census of Marine Life

The National Museum of Natural History of the Smithsonian Institution in Washington DC has added a small but excellent exhibit about the Census of Marine Life to the Sant Hall…

children’s book by Francois Sarano about oceans

The new children’s book, The Little Girl Who Walked on Water But Who Didn’t Know How to Swim written by our esteemed colleague and friend Francois Sarano and illustrated by…