Marine Plastics keynote talk

Jesse Ausubel gave the opening talk on “A Cleaner Ocean” to the conference From Research to Action: Responding to Plastic Pollution through Science organized by the Embassy of France Office…

Economist article, “Working miracles”

The Economist magazine has an article in the current survey on the environment that draws heavily from our research and our friends at IIASA: “Working miracles: Can technology save the…

Chauncey Starr

Chauncey Starr, who helped launch the Program for the Human Environment, passed away on 18 April 2007, shortly after his 95th birthday celebration. In fond memory of Chauncey, we post…

TreeParser paper published

PHE researchers Mark Stoeckle and Cameron Coffran developed a new software, TreeParser, that helps generate Klee diagram “heat maps” of genetic biodiversity (freely available on the PHE website https://phe.rockefeller.edu/barcode/klee.php )….

St. Hubert posted

We post a PDF version of “Maglevs and the Vision of St. Hubert”…

Encyclopedia of Life

On May 9, Jesse took part in the launch of The Encyclopedia of Life, a global effort to document all 1.8 million named species of animals, plants, and other forms…

Gowanus eDNA

Our Gowanus eDNA Project, carried out with RockEDU SSRP high school student Alla Zeidyyeh, found surprisingly diverse DNA evidence–19 fish species–in the Canal, including the endangered shortnose sturgeon. The project…