Remembrances, passing of Jeannette Aspden
The passing on 30 September 2018 in Washington DC of Jeannette Aspden, colleague from IIASA and the Carnegie Commission, elicits a brief written tribute. Celebrations and remembrances of our colleagues…
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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….
PopSci Profile
The July 2010 issue of Popular Science (pp. 54-55) features a profile of Jesse in its Environmental Visionaries series….
Methane hydrates report from UNEP et al.
The executive summary of the new UNEP report on methane hydrates, Frozen Heat, is now available.  The report includes superb visualizations. PHE alumna Nadejda Victor and Jesse Ausubel contributed…
Concrete Life Cycle Assessment
PHE researcher Iddo Wernick co-authored a recent article, Comparative LCA of concrete with natural and recycled coarse aggregate in the New York City area, published in The International Journal of…
DNA barcoding a hardy urban denizen
In 2009, high school students found novel DNA barcode types in American cockroaches (Periplaneta americana) in New York City (DNAHouse). Hoping to learn more about this feared and despised yet…
How to make an indentification machine
Successful automation often involves machines that carry out tasks differently than persons. For example, a Coulter counter (developed by Wallace H. Coulter, an American engineer), analyzes blood cells by electrical…
Expanding access to DNA secrets
When Roger Tory Peterson’s “A Field Guide to the Birds” was published in 1934, it opened the door to a multitude of persons being able to identify birds, helped create…
First barcode data release paper is published
The first barcode data release paper has just been published by PLoS One. These data comply with the BARCODE data standard and the paper includes a table that links data…