Census reviews of China, European seas
Valuable papers continue to stream from the Census of Marine Life. We note: Liu JY (2013) Status of Marine Biodiversity of the China Seas. PLoS ONE 8(1): e50719. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0050719 and…
Valuable papers continue to stream from the Census of Marine Life. We note: Liu JY (2013) Status of Marine Biodiversity of the China Seas. PLoS ONE 8(1): e50719. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0050719 and…
Added section on Daedalus – The Journal of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences special issue on “the liberation of the environment.” We also updated our list of publications….
Always alert for surprising ways that technology may spare environment, we are delighted by papers showing that Viagra could spare threatened species in general and in particular ones exploited in…
On Saturday 26 March 2011 the annual French Film Festival in Richmond VA organized by Peter and Francoise Kirkpatrick featured Galatee’s film Oceans. Over 1000 people filled the magnificent Byrd…
Di Renzo has now published Jesse Ausubel’s short autobiography. The book spans Jesse’s roots, childhood, and education, and then the major chapters of his career: climate change, industrial ecology, Census…
Science magazine 1 August ran an Op-Ed by Mande Holford and Rod Nichols, with whom Jesse teaches The Rockefeller University course on Science & Diplomacy….
…chamber, the device performs thermal cycling, DNA purification, and capillary electrophoresis, generating reads of up to 556 bases with 99% accuracy. Based on their results “the template/reagent requirements can be…
Claire Williams’ book Landscapes, Genomics, and Transgenic Conifers to which we contributed “Foresters and DNA†is now available from Amazon where the site features our opening sentence: “The decoding of…
…little we know about species variety. We used to think we knew many species well, but the advent of DNA barcoding has radically altered that perception. Genetically distinctive species of…
…about 400 species worldwide. Like many marine species, they have a bipartite life cycle where dispersal is achieved through a planktonic larval developmental stage. However, larval stages are notoriously difficult…