The Census of the Fishes: An Update

…operational Global Ocean Observing System. Obviously, the long run goal of the Census is not one snapshot but establishing cost-effective strategies for a periodic Census. A proper worldwide Census might…

Where is Energy Going? [PDF]

JH Ausubel. The Industrial Physicist 6 (1): 16–19 2000 The essay had appeared in Italian in the special millennial edition of the Italian financial newspaper, Il Sole/24 Ore, on 17 November 1999; also in Italian as Benvenuti nel millennio nuclear, pp.163-168 in Duemila: Verso una societa aperta, M. Moussanet, ed., Il Sole 24 Ore, Milano, 2000.

…corrected in the PDF version here and on The Industrial Physicist web site. Figure 3 should read: Figure 3. When total world per capita energy consumption (tons coal equivalent) is…

Passing of marine biologist Ron O’Dor

…to create CephBase, for all squids and octopi. CephBase launched in 1998, biblical times for on-line services, pre-dating Google.  By the time the CoML officially launched at the start of…

Directions

…of the Nurses Residence (Building 17). View Larger Map on Google From the Airports Yellow Cabs—registered & licensed La Guardia/LGA—midtown: $60-65 (includes tolls, taxes, and tip) and will take about…

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

Tea Barcode published

What’s in the world’s most popular beverage-tea? Mark Stoeckle helped lead three NYC high school students on a DNA barcoding investigation of commercial tea products, published today in Nature’s online

Barcoding in Scientific American

An engaging and amusingly illustrated update on DNA Barcoding by Mark Stoeckle and Paul Hebert appears in the October 2008 issue of Scientific American, on newsstands and web today, with…

Forests, Farms, and Materials

…Providing vision for resource management emerges from learning how natural systems have functioned over many millennia.  Eight thousand years ago, when humans played only bit parts in the world ecosystem,…

Barcode Coverage

The big London DNA barcoding jamboree earned extensive press coverage, ranging from BBC and CNN to Science. https://phe.rockefeller.edu/PDF_FILES/Marshall2005.pdf…