PHE-sponsored “Sushi-gate†investigation is featured in April 2009 Scripps Oceanographic Institute Magazine. The article, which describes work done by FISHBOL researchers Phil Hastings and Ron Burton, quotes PHE’s Mark Stoeckle…
Michael Ojovan, now at Imperial College (London), and Russian colleagues have published an excellent compact description of self-sinking capsules for disposal of hazardous waste and probing the deep Earth. See…
Plants challenge DNA barcoding. It has been difficult to identify candidate barcode regions that amplify readily and also distinguish among closely-related species. In 7 February 2008 PNAS (open access) researchers…
We post the paper Death and the Human Environment, which appeared this month in the journal Technology in Society….
The article ‘How to Invest in the Global Forests of the Future’ is a more popular version of a recent publication ‘Storing Carbon or Growing Forests‘ that appeared in the…
What limits mitochondrial variation within species? In January 2008 PLoS Biology researchers from Karolinksa Institute, Sweden, and University of Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom, report on an ingenious mouse model…
Our paper establishing DNA barcodes for almost all (94%) of North American birds appears, together with a paper on barcodes for bats as well as a methodological paper, in Molecular…
We post the rise and fall of sulfur dioxide emissions in the USA, which form an Environmental Kuznets Curve where richer is first dirtier and then richer becomes cleaner, as…
In 24 February 2010 PLoS ONE paper “Structural Analysis of Biodiversity”, PHE researcher Mark Stoeckle and colleagues at Mt. Sinai School of Medicine apply their recently-developed indicator vector technique to…
Jesse Ausubel gave a talk on “eDNA: Prospects and Challenges” at NOAA’s Northeast Fisheries Sciences Center on 18 October 2019. To view the talk visit here for a webinar link….