ExoticBOL: Detecting Invasive Insect Pests at Port of Entry

site) Download Powerpoint Images Specimens UBP competition Francis Krim Memorial Inspection Station USDA, USFS images ACKNOWLEDGMENTS U.S. Customs and Border Protection, Newark International Airport Frances Krim Memorial Inspection Station, APHIS,…

Shirshov lecture on eDNA

The slides from Jesse Ausubel’s lecture on Marine biodiversity revealed by extracellular DNA in seawater are posted at the site of the conference celebrating the 70th birthday of Russia’s Shirshov…

“Taxonomy for the twenty-first century” and “DNA barcoding of life”: special theme issues of Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society available online

…this issue is available to members and visitors to the Consortium of the Barcode of Life site. Towards writing the encyclopaedia of life: an introduction to DNA barcoding by Vincent…

The Census of Marine Life: Progress and Prospects

JH Ausubel. Fisheries 26 (7): 33–36 2001

… Closely related are institutional obligations for maintaining web sites and servers.  Who hosts?  Who pays?  OBIS cannot rely only on the goodwill of individual scientists maintaining sound sites as hobbies…

News coverage about surprising Jersey Shore fish spotted w eDNA

…Revista Planeta, Brazil  Arraia típica do Brasil está chegando perto da costa de Nova York https://www.revistaplaneta.com.br/arraia-tipica-do-brasil-esta-chegando-perto-da-costa-de-nova-york/ DIVE Magazine, UK DNA Traces Prove To Be Useful Tool in Understanding Fish Populations https://divemagazine.co.uk/eco/8973-tracking-and-tracing-in-the-ocean-using-dna-residue…

Fishing for DNA paper published

…at the 47 sec. mark, 5 1/2 minutes): https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p04yxshm#play A 40 sec. clip is also posted here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p04zzxsh https://www.flyfisherman.com/news/edna-bread-crumbs-track-migrating-fish/ Smithsonian magazine How teeny bits of leftover DNA help scientists track…

Census of Marine Life Reef book

…appears… Spineless, the incomparable photographer Susan Middleton’s book on invertebrates, has appeared. A good article https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/gorgeous-portraits-spineless-sea-creatures-180953078/?no-ist For sale at Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Spineless-Susan-Middleton/dp/1419710079/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1414756006&sr=1-1 This was also an exhibit at SFO airport: https://www.flysfo.com/content/museum-exhibit-spineless-portraits-marine-invertebrates…