A Turn for the Better
Scientists pondering the state of the planet at millennium’s end temper gloomy predictions with hope By Scott Allen, Globe Staff, 11/22/99 NEW YORK – Predicting the fate of the Earth…
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CASE STUDY : Comparing Apples and Supercomputers: Evaluating Environmental Risk in Silicon Valley
…filtering their own. Newspapers and television news programs have discovered that toxic releases in the Valley are nearly as sensational as kidnaping and murders. When the Fairchild story hit the…
The Census of the Fishes: Concept Paper
Jesse H. Ausubel. phe.rockefeller.edu, January
1997
…and the growing numbers of whale-watchers affirm this truth. The oceans, like the heavens, offer a preferred route to increasing public understanding of the world in which we live, and…
Avian genetic data legacy relatively modest, jumbled
…in total representing the rest of the approximately 10,000 species of world birds. According to Clements’ Birds of the World (including updates through 2006), there are 9,919 recognized species. The…
CoML – Arctic Project
The new Arctic project of the Census of Marine Life is in the news today. The story was covered by all the big media outlets — BBC, CNN International, AP,…
Community Risk Profiles: Background
Addressing Environmental Quality and Public Health at the Community Level: A Problem Statement IDDO K. WERNICK The Rockefeller University, New York, NY SUMMARY As the size and diversity of the…
Dueling taxonomists agree: DNA barcoding invaluable for species identification
…Google search with “new species” and “dna” turns up dozens of reports in which DNA sequence differences are the first and strongest evidence for cryptic species, including the 2 new…
Reuters article on COVID-19 & Quiet Ocean Experiment
…before propeller-driven ships and boats spanned the globe? https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-climate-research-i/pandemic-offers-scientists-unprecedented-chance-to-hear-oceans-as-they-once-were-idUSKBN23F1M3 even picked up by the New York Times: https://www.nytimes.com/reuters/2020/06/08/us/08reuters-health-coronavirus-climate-research-insight.html and in the hard copy edition of the Washington Post. The 2009…
DNA differences first step in describing new spider species
…far. A search in GenBank for Order Araneae (spiders) shows 9,445 sequences (representing any gene) from 1,852 species (4.6% world total of 40,432 species (World Spider Catalog)). Looking at mitochondrial…
DNAHouse: exploring urban environment
…in the environment. We found tell-tale DNA in dried-out horse manure in Central Park, a pigeon feather on the sidewalk and a shed snakeskin. DNAHouse attracted news interest New York Times: “Through…