DNA barcoding a hardy urban denizen
In 2009, high school students found novel DNA barcode types in American cockroaches (Periplaneta americana) in New York City (DNAHouse). Hoping to learn more about this feared and despised yet…
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Avian catalogue still incomplete
…Library), Linnaeus listed 564 species collected from all over the world. In 1935, Ernst Mayr estimated 8,500 world birds, and counted more precisely in 1946, arriving at a total of…
A Turn for the Better
…harm to the natural world. The world population grew almost fourfold in the 20th century, to 6 billion, creating sprawling cities that erased the natural landscape and sucked up natural…
Bi-Logistic Growth
PS Meyer. Technological Forecasting and Social Change
47:
89–102
1994
…Human Environment, J. Ausubel and D. Langford, eds., National Academy Press, Washington, D.C. Posch, M., Grübler, A., and Nakicenovic, N., Methods of Estimating S-Shaped Growth Functions, International Institute for Applied…
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…
DNA differences first step in describing new spider species
…genes, there are 2,629 COI sequences from 1,071 species (2.6% world) and 2,268 12S/16S sequences from 1,041 species (2.6% world). Thus it appears that only about 1/40th of world’s spiders…
The Census of the Fishes: Concept Paper
Jesse H. Ausubel. phe.rockefeller.edu, January
1997
…fishers (who might fear increased regulation), environmental groups (who might fear that newly discovered stocks would be destroyed), and international organizations, both non- governmental and intergovernmental (such as ICSU/SCOR, ICES,…
World species census updated
…in September 2009 publication from Australian Government “Numbers of Living Species in Australia and the World, 2nd edition” by Arthur Chapman (illustrated report open access for perusing online or as…
Visions of the 21st Century
…Make Garbage Disappear? Through the magic of recycling and modern alchemy, we will move swiftly toward a world without waste by IVAN AMATO Whoever said “waste not, want not” hasn’t…
Jesse awarded an honorary doctorate
…Earth, and was also involved in establishing the Census for Marine Life, an international program to chart life in the oceans by 2010. Scientists from around the world who are…