Mark Stoeckle on marine eDNA in Popular Science
Scientists are tracking down deep sea creatures with free-floating DNA Bits of genetic code in seawater can help scientists study fish that we rarely see. article in Popular Science by…
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Let’s measure the abundance of marine life
The lively website Real Clear Science publishes Jesse Ausubel’s short essay Time to Measure the Abundance of Ocean Life prepared for the 24 March 2021 UNESCO FORUM: Our Planet, Our…
Another podcast with Jesse about peak human and peak humans
…bodies may near their limits and even start on a downward curve. “For 200-250 years humanity has had an incredible run,” Ausubel said. “When you think of your great grandparents,…
Counting zooplankton diversity with DNA
Marine zooplankton comprise an enormous mass of diverse organisms distributed throughout the world’s oceans from deep waters to surface. Zooplankton include representatives of at least dozen phyla, some of which…
What needs explanation is the absence of variation
Results so far show most animal species correspond to clusters of closely-related mtDNA sequences, distinct from clusters of neighboring species. This patterning is so striking that if a neighbor-joining tree…
Marine Life Around Martha’s Vineyard
The May-June 2010 issue of Martha’s Vineyard Magazine publishes “From cod to conch: How the fisheries have shifted focus over the past twenty-five years,†by Mike Secombe, with quotations from…
Drone flight over Rock U campus
One of our colleagues took his drone for this aerial tour of The Rockefeller University campus. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-TP1Hqy9Tb4…
Passing of John Fisher of Fisher-Pry substitution model
We note with sadness learning of the passing of John C. Fisher on 2 May 2018 at age 98. With Robert Pry, John Fisher developed the classic A simple substitution…
Finding out what small herbivores eat
…standardized DNA analysis, and compare with microscopic techniques, for diets of two arctic voles, Microtus oeconomus (Tundra vole) and Myodes rufocanus (Grey red-backed vole) collected in July and September in…
Census of Marine Life on Naked Science radio
Sarah Castor-Perry of the lively UK Naked Science radio program broadcast an excellent series about the oceans, including an interview with Jesse Ausubel about the Census of Marine Life….