National Ocean Exploration Forum

…… Strange purple sea creatures found in deep ocean trenches BBC News–Oct 20, 2016 500 ‘Champagne’ Methane Seeps Discovered Off Pacific Coast Live Science–Oct 20, 2016 Methane leak along the…

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DNA Barcoding: Bulletin of the International Barcode of Life (iBOL) program at the University of Guelph A useful newsletter that shares information on DNA barcoding initiatives, terrestrial and marine, animal,…

Diffusion of Social Phenomena

share grows, it comes at the cost of shares of others. This process is well-described by the so-called “logistic substitution model.”   The logistic model also finds applications in demography, notably…

Barcode Coverage

The big London DNA barcoding jamboree earned extensive press coverage, ranging from BBC and CNN to Science. https://phe.rockefeller.edu/PDF_FILES/Marshall2005.pdf…

Animation of eruptions, earthquakes, emissions

…predict cataclysmic supervolcano eruptions BBC Volcano insight: Fifty years of eruptions revealed EFE Una aplicación compila todas las erupciones volcánicas desde 1960 ANSI Eruzioni e terremoti, 50 anni di dati…

International Conflicts over Environment: Scientist’s Roles and Opportunities

JH Ausubel. Scientific Cooperation, State Conflict: The Role of Scientists in Mitigating International Discord, "Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences" 866: 253–258 1998

…continue, for example, between Peru and Ecuador. My cases are cod fish, Antarctica, atmospheric weapons testing, acid deposition, fresh water, and climate change. CASES Because war is the least ambiguous…

Scientists, War, Diplomacy, Europe

JH Ausubel. George C. Marshall Institute News 3 (4): 2001

…part of the brain, the part humans share with snakes and other reptiles. Here we must think of emergent Europe, the subject of a conference in Paris in February 2000…