passing of Rodney Nichols
Our beloved friend and colleague Rodney Nichols passed away on 30 August 2018 in New York City. Rod introduced Jesse Ausubel and Doris Manville, who have now worked together in…
Our beloved friend and colleague Rodney Nichols passed away on 30 August 2018 in New York City. Rod introduced Jesse Ausubel and Doris Manville, who have now worked together in…
“Forming the Ocean Club called POGO” is the title of Jesse Ausubel’s history of the formation of this group, initiated by Charles Kennel (direct or Scripps) and Robert Gagosian (director…
The Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) celebrated the 90th birthday of EPRI founder Chauncey Starr with a seminar on the prospects for a North American continental supergrid for electricity transmission,…
Jesse Ausubel speaks at the U. of Miami on 6 April 2017 about naked DNA in seawater, the subject of a forthcoming paper by PHE’s Mark Stoeckle et al….
In June 2008 PLoS ONE, thirteen researchers from nine Canadian universities, museums, and federal agencies report on mtDNA sequences from 1360 individuals representing 195 (95%) of Canada’s 205 freshwater fish…
Jesse is mentioned in this Washington Post article about the Sloan Foundation’s support for David Kirsch in studying Dot Com failures….
The crew of NOAA’s Okeanos Explorer recently spent six days in New York at the halfway point of their Northeast US Canyons Expedition. Before departing for the continental shelf between…
The Scientific Committee on Oceanic Research has issued the 6th Newsletter chronicling the progress of the International Quiet Ocean Experiment, to which COVID has given an amazing opportunity and impetus…
Ossining NY high school sophomore Samara Davis, with guidance from PHE’s Mark Stoeckle, earned 1st place in the Somers/Westlake Science Fair for her project Environmental DNA Analysis to Determine Population…
In July 2008 Wildlife Management researchers from Smithsonian Institution report on identifying otherwise unidentifiable remnants from bird-aircraft collisions (hereafter birdstrikes). Authors Dove et al point out “birdstrikes are a serious…