Nature of the City
We post the polished text of Jesse Ausubel’s 2016 lecture on The Nature of the City as well as the video. For more information see What’s New entries from 19…
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DNA helps identify African agricultural pests
Among the 35,000 known species of noctuid moths, a number are destructive agricultural pests, including for example Corn earworm Helicoverpa zea and Tobacco budworm Heliothis virescens. Accurate identification is the…
Ocean Exploration in Caribbean
Oceanography magazine published its Supplement covering the 2013 field season of the Exploration Vessel Nautilus in the Caribbean. Jesse Ausubel participated in the field season and is a co-author of…
Precision agriculture in Wall Street Journal
Robert Paarlberg’s article “The Environmental Upside of Modern Farming” cites our work about land-sparing. Rob has just published a new book Resetting the Table: Straight Talk About the Food We…
Iddo on resource demands of renewables
PHE senior research associate Iddo Wernick publishes an op-ed in RealClear Science: Green Technologies Have a Glaring Problem of Scale…
Don’t barcode alone
Barcoding is a standardized approach to DNA-based species identification. The essence of standardization is an agreement among researchers and practitioners to rely on one or a few defined gene region(s)….
Small houses on big lots
Most animal species correspond to tight clusters of mtDNA distinct from those closely-related species. In real estate terms, most species are small houses on big lots. Small houses because intraspecific…
On the Limits to Knowledge of Future Marine Biodiversity
Jesse’s opening keynote address On the Limits to Knowledge of Future Marine Biodiversity from a Scripps Institution of Oceanography conference on that subject appears in The Electronic Journal of Sustainable…
Ground beetles join in
On September 25, 2010, BOLD passed 1 M barcode records, and the International Barcode of Life ( iBOL) was officially launched in Toronto, Canada, with a goal of 5 M…
DOT EARTH – On CH4, Poverty and CO2
In a Dot Earth blog entry on African development, Andy Revkin of the New York Times refers to our work on the importance of energy gases….