Chauncey Starr

Chauncey Starr, who helped launch the Program for the Human Environment, passed away on 18 April 2007, shortly after his 95th birthday celebration. In fond memory of Chauncey, we post…

St. Hubert posted

We post a PDF version of “Maglevs and the Vision of St. Hubert”…

Encyclopedia of Life

On May 9, Jesse took part in the launch of The Encyclopedia of Life, a global effort to document all 1.8 million named species of animals, plants, and other forms…

Gowanus eDNA

Our Gowanus eDNA Project, carried out with RockEDU SSRP high school student Alla Zeidyyeh, found surprisingly diverse DNA evidence–19 fish species–in the Canal, including the endangered shortnose sturgeon. The project…

CoML speech, Time Magazine mention

We post a short general talk Jesse gave in the spring about the Census of Marine Life, “The Census of Marine Life: A Global Partnership for Sustainable Development”. Our work…

Martha’s Vineyard Gazette 12 July 2007

The Martha’s Vineyard Gazette covered Jesse’s 12 July 2007 talk to the Vineyard Conservation Society about the Census of Marine Life….

Zookeys

Open access journal ZooKeys announced the first rapid-release, large dataset of bird barcodes, based on 2,808 frozen tissue samples from the Division of Birds, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian…

National Material Flows posted

Continuing to build our digital archive, we post the 1995 paper “National Materials Flows and the Environment”….