Science Saturday May 3 2014
Kate Stoeckle (Sushigate–How We Became DNA Detectives–You Can Too!) and Mark Stoeckle (Citizens Help Study Icky and Mysterious City Pest–Cockroaches) showcased their work on May 3 at Rockefeller’s first “Science…
Kate Stoeckle (Sushigate–How We Became DNA Detectives–You Can Too!) and Mark Stoeckle (Citizens Help Study Icky and Mysterious City Pest–Cockroaches) showcased their work on May 3 at Rockefeller’s first “Science…
…cases. COI outperformed a commonly used genetic marker, the plastid Rubisco spacer, in revealing cryptic diversity. As is generally observed, “a good taxonomic foundation coupled with extensive sampling of taxa…
We have posted the paper Resources and Environment in the 21st Century: Seeing Past the Phantoms….
The Census of Marine Life announces discovery of a rare microbial biosphere. Jesse notes that a swallow of seawater might contain 1000 kinds of bacteria….
On September 13, 2016 Jesse delivered a lecture on Marine biodiversity revealed by extracellular DNA in seawater as part of the conference celebrating the 70th birthday of Russia’s Shirshov Institute…
Why DNA barcoding works as well as it does is an unsolved scientific puzzle. It is long observed that mitochondrial DNA differences within animal species are generally much smaller than…
Dutch newspaper, NRC Handelsblad, publishes article by H.L. Wesseling featuring “The Liberation of the Environment: Technological Development and Global Change,” (Budapest version)….
The Italian weekly magazine Oggi published a colorful spread about the Census of Marine Life in its 26 June 2006 edition entitled “ET swims in the abyss.” The opening page…
“An International Quiet Ocean Experiment,†co-authored by Jesse and 22 colleagues led by Ian Boyd and George Frisk, appears in the June 2011 issue of Oceanography magazine. The paper and…
An oil analyst makes creative use of Loglet Lab to analyze oil production and the peak oil question: https://www.theoildrum.com/story/2006/9/3/113719/7594…