Encyclopedia of Life continues rapid expansion
A 4 January 2012 press release describes the continuing rapid expansion of the Encyclopedia of Life. It is hard to believe that the EOL went public only in February 2008.…
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Non-invasive DNA recovery leaves tiny specimens intact
Reference databases of DNA sequences used for species identification, ie DNA barcode libraries, are most powerful when the morphologic specimens are vouchered in a museum collection. This way, when there…
Census of Marine Life US Postal Stamps
available from Zazzle.com stamp designs by Mark Stoeckle…
DNA to help skates
In current Aquatic Conserv Marine Freshwater Ecosys, researchers from Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle, France, report on 80 years of taxonomic confusion that has contributed to near extinction for a once…
Great Global Fish Count
We post the concept paper for the Great Global Fish Count and the 5 slides Jesse Ausubel and Mark Stoeckle prepared for the Ocean Studies Board virtual meeting to discuss…
eDNA degradation; 2nd National Workshop
PHE’s guest investigator David Thaler offers some stimulating ideas in a memo about ways of understanding and learning from degradation of aquatic eDNA. The title: How long has each particular…
Video of Jesse’s Nierenberg Prize lecture on “Peak Human?”
In this 54″ video made 13 October, 2022 Jesse Ausubel, awarded the 2022 Nierenberg Prize for Science in the Public Interest, discusses whether the human species can continue to improve—much…
New translation of classic Mendeleev article on origins of petroleum
…Veselin Kostov’s translation of this chapter together with a list of references on the abiogenic theory of petroleum origin (wherever our limited knowledge of Russian interrupted the continuous flow of…
Discoveries of the Leonardo Da Vinci DNA Project
…CNRS editions, Paris. Two major newswires, Agence France Presse and Agencia EFE, each did separate stories: Manny Torralba et al. AFP Microbes Could ‘help Save Old Masters’ And Catch Forgers…
Deciphering tropical vines with DNA
In Dec 2009 Am J Botany researchers from University of Texas apply DNA to sort out species limits of tropical vines in genus Psiguria, part of cucurbit family (Cucurbitaceae) that…