“Son et lumiere” – Exciting Updates

…Scope of Global Change to Include Illumination and Noise. The essay’s recommendation for consideration of an International Quiet Ocean Experiment earns coverage by Mike Seccombe in the Martha’s Vineyard Gazette…

Special Report

…gallon — about three times the mileage of today’s average car. Meanwhile, the industry continues to oppose measures to reduce CO2 emissions contained in the Kyoto accord. They “would go…

Related Links

DNA Barcoding: Bulletin of the International Barcode of Life (iBOL) program at the University of Guelph A useful newsletter that shares information on DNA barcoding initiatives, terrestrial and marine, animal,…

Community Risk Profiles: Appendices

…Mars. He has also been a consultant on environmental and health-related matters for government and the international community. For example, he has long had a keen interest in international health…

National Ocean Exploration Forum

…… Strange purple sea creatures found in deep ocean trenches BBC News–Oct 20, 2016 500 ‘Champagne’ Methane Seeps Discovered Off Pacific Coast Live Science–Oct 20, 2016 Methane leak along the…

Barcode of Life site updates

We have updated and reorganized our webpages on DNA, Taxonomy, and the Barcode of Life (https://phe.rockefeller.edu/BarcodeConference/) to keep pace with this rapidly progressing field. Among other exciting developments, the Smithsonian…

Census of Marine Life Antarctic book

…Preface, p. 6 of the prior link. New Antarctic atlas offers index of marine life BBC News – ‎‎ More than 9,000 species, from single-cell organisms to penguins and whales,…

Oceans

…the Roboats. International Quiet Ocean Experiment. The IQOE aims to complete a large-scale international effort to measure soundscapes of the world’s oceans and better understand potential biological effects of sound…