DNA data to help save bushmeat animals
Harvesting wild animals for sale as food is a large, mostly illegal business that threatens wild animal populations and puts humans at risk for exotic infections, witness the SARS outbreak…
Harvesting wild animals for sale as food is a large, mostly illegal business that threatens wild animal populations and puts humans at risk for exotic infections, witness the SARS outbreak…
What’s happened to the forests of the former Roman Empire? This and other mysteries are probed in Quandaries of Forest Area, Volume, Biomass, and Carbon Explored with the Forest Identity,…
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…
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…
…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,…
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…
One of our colleagues took his drone for this aerial tour of The Rockefeller University campus. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-TP1Hqy9Tb4…
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…
…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…
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….