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…
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Maglevs and the Vision of St. Hubert
We newly post Jesse’s plenary address to the July 2001 Amsterdam Global Change Open Science Conference, “Maglevs and the Vision of St. Hubert.”…
Industrial Ecology of Cadmium
Progress in Industrial Ecology published the Ausubel-Wernick-Barrett-Waggoner paper Industrial Ecology for Leverage to Let Loose Less Cadmium . We thank Peter Elias, who helped us start work on cadmium back…
iBOL Essay
As chairman of the International Barcode of Life (iBOL) project, Jesse authored a short essay, “Navigating around hazards to barcoding, 2011†published in the iBOL newsletter…
Can Technology Spare the Earth?
We post the 1996 American Scientist magazine article Can Technology Spare the Earth?…
DNA barcodes for North American birds paper on-line
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…
Counting angels with DNA: update
“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…
On Sparing Farmland and Spreading Forest
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…
Marine Census lecture
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 help demonstrate practicality, utility of DNA barcoding
…local African markets. Just two years ago, in Syst Biol 55: 844, 2006 some taxonomists worried whether DNA barcoding would ever be useful: “The truth is that DNA barcoding will…