Detecting aliens with DNA
Alien species sometimes damage native landscapes. In Voyage of the Beagle, in entry dated September 19, 1832, Darwin describes the spread of an introduced European thistle Cyanara cardunculus in Banda…
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Great Global Fish Count in Marine Technology Society Journal
The Great Global Fish Count, a Potential Project of the UN Ocean Decade by Jesse Ausubel and Mark Stoeckle appears in the Marine Technology Society Journal, Volume 55, Number 3,…
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…
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…
Jesse podcasts on “Peak Human?”
Journalist/author Robert Bryce interviews Jesse Ausubel about PHE’s work on “peak human” and “peak humans.” The interview covers four dimensions of human performance: the physical (how far and fast can…
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…
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
High school students in San Diego are using DNA barcoding to survey life in San Diego Bay, ranging from invasive mussels, to gastropod egg masses on eel grass, zooplankton and…