Revealing tiny food webs
As Bruegel the Elder recognized in 1557, “big fish eat little fish”. Determining exactly what eats what remains a fundamental question in modern ecology and this task is particularly challenging…
As Bruegel the Elder recognized in 1557, “big fish eat little fish”. Determining exactly what eats what remains a fundamental question in modern ecology and this task is particularly challenging…
We newly post Jesse’s plenary address to the July 2001 Amsterdam Global Change Open Science Conference, “Maglevs and the Vision of St. Hubert.”…
We post the 1996 American Scientist magazine article Can Technology Spare the Earth?…
We post “Comprehensive DNA barcode coverage of North American birds” recently published in Molecular Ecology Notes. PHE’s Mark Stoeckle co-authored the paper along with the now almost-classic 2004 paper “Identification…
“It is impossible to describe biological diversity with traditional approaches. Molecular methods are the way forward–especially, perhaps in the form of DNA barcodes” observed Mark Blaxter in a 2003 Nature…
We post Jesse’s “On Sparing Farmland and Spreading Forest.” Prepared as a plenary talk for the September 2001 Denver convention of the Society of American Foresters, it was not delivered…
The Carnegie Capital Science Evening 18 October 2012 was devoted to the Census of Marine Life. Jesse Ausubel’s lecture “Every Fish in the Sea: Findings of the 1st Census of…
High school students in San Diego are using DNA barcoding to survey life in San Diego Bay, ranging from invasive mussels, to gastropod egg masses on eel grass, zooplankton and…
In May 2001 IIASA sponsored a meeting in Helsinki about the Institute for its Nordic members. Jesse spoke about why IIASA has mattered in general and in particular its role…
The second version (more features, fewer bugs) of the university simulator, Virtual U., debuted 1 February at a workshop at the U. of Pennsylvania for about two dozen schools using…