…you on behalf of the distinguished international Scientific Steering Committee (SSC) that is now planning the program (see https://www.coml.org for more information). Three main reasons motivate the Census of Marine…
…5 short segments posted on YouTube. This segment captures the sound and video quite well: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qu1JCQj5HLY Other segments capture the excellent conversation of Mickey Hart and George Smoot, e.g., https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U89XR5KhOWA…
…which they first discovered through DNA barcoding. DNA barcoding revealed divergent clusters within four previously described species and careful re-inspection revealed morphologic characters associated with each genetic cluster. It is…
…hybridization, recent radiations, and high rates of gene transfer from mtDNA to the nucleus.” As of today, the BOLD taxonomy browser at Phylum Chordata, Class Aves (www.boldsystems.org/views/taxbrowser.php?taxid=51 indicates over 24,000…
…its collections of the September 11 Digital Archive. For the press release about the accession visit https://www.loc.gov/today/pr/2003/03-142.html , while the Symposium program and eventually its webcast are at https://www.loc.gov/rr/program/911symposium/ ….
…www.barcodinglife.org. Sequences from outside North America are flocking in, including a recent set from western Australian parrots, contributed by Peter Spencer, Murdoch University. Quoting P. Spencer “these species are generally…
Wake Forest University undergraduate Karina Macosko asks Jesse about climate change, counting fish, and other subjects of his work in a 15-minute video interview. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YtK-kPJZ3Ow&feature=emb_logo…
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-01098-6An article in the 11 April 2019 issue of Nature magazine discusses the issue of sound in the ocean and notes the role of the International Quiet Ocean Experiment (IQOE)…
…(https://www.dmill.com) and Dave Rejeski nucleated the Serious Games initiative. Jesse still hopes to find a programmer who would take the 1981 Greenhouse Effect board game and turn it into an…
The Sponge Barcoding Project https://www.spongebarcoding.org/ aims to barcode all described sponges, about 8,000 species in the phylum Porifera. The initial phase of 3 years will focus on 2,000 species covering…