Andrew Johnson departs
Research Intern Andrew Johnson moved to Washington, D.C. to join the State Department. He can still be reached through the Program for the Human Environment.
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Ocean Exploration 2012 final report
The US Government formed a national program in ocean exploration recommended in the year 2000 by a presidential panel on which Jesse Ausubel served. In 2012, the government requested a…
Michelson Memorial Lecture
We post “Ocean Past, Ocean Future: Reflections on the Shift from the 19th to 21st Century Ocean”, Jesse H. Ausubel, Michelson Memorial Lecture, 15 October 2015 United States Naval Academy,…
Biggest tree so far
Phylogenetic tree-building programs are the workhorses of evolutionary analysis. Thus it might be surprising that, given there are at least 1.7 million named species of plants and animals, output trees…
We welcome Mark Stoeckle
We welcome Mark Stoeckle, MD as a Guest Investigator to the Program for the Human Environment. Dr. Stoeckle is a graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Medical School and is…
DNA helps reveal bat diets
What do carnivorous animals eat? Predation drives evolution and underlies ecology, yet except for a few easily observed species, it is surprisingly hard to determine what eats what. In June…
CoML – Wild Chronicles
National Geographic’s weekly tv show Wild Chronicles featured the Census of Marine Life, including a few comments from Jesse….
East Coast eDNA researchers
Our environmental DNA discovery of unusual fish is featured in the American Fisheries Society blog. The post highlights the growing complement of East Coast eDNA researchers, including our NOAA colleague…
Poisonous fish revealed
…approximately 1700 and 660 names, respectively. And yet DNA surveys regularly turn up fish in the marketplace that are not on any regulatory list, as well as mislabeling of those…
Land Cover scans
In response to requests for the pie charts from our paper Restoring the Forests (Foreign Affairs, 2000), we post here two scanned pdfs showing the past and prospective changes in…