For its 2021 Annual Review, the Andrew W. Marshall Foundation presented an hour-long seminar in which Jesse Ausubel speaks briefly on experimentation, Melissa Flagg on intellectual courage, and Dan Patt…
We post a Schematic of an eDNA metabarcoding protocol for marine fish. We recently showed that current laboratory protocols optimize sensitivity and reproducibility, especially for more abundant fish populations (ICES…
On 25 June Jesse received the Blue Frontier / Peter Benchley award for science at the California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco. He used the occasion for “A Call…
RealClearEnergy’s William Tucker has posted an article about our paper on Peak Farmland.…
In 1867 Swiss botanist Simon Schwendener was the first to recognize that lichens were symbiotic associations of fungi and algae (or, as subsequently discovered, cyanobacteria) (for more info, try this…
…studying invertebrates). The C. livia cytb sequence naturally matches most closely with C. livia, with C. rupestris as the sister species, the same pattern as with COI (in tree at…
Pioneering microbiologist Norton Zinder, a great friend of the Program for the Human Environment, passed away 3 February 2012. Nicholas Wade recapped Norton’s career beautifully for the New York Times….
Co-authors of the new widely reported PNAS paper “Sulfur-cycling fossil bacteria from the 1.8-Ga Duck Creek Formation provide promising evidence of evolution’s null hypothesis” include our close Chilean collaborators, Victor…
The radio show Earth/Sky posts interviews with Jesse about the Census of Marine Life….
PHE-ers Mark Stoeckle, Jesse Ausubel, and Paul Waggoner put together Barcoding Life Highlights 2013 in recognition of the Fifth International Barcode of Life Conference opening shortly in Kunming. This eight…