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New Antarctic atlas offers index of marine life
BBC News – ‎‎
More than 9,000 species, from single-cell organisms to penguins and whales, are chronicled in the first Antarctic atlas since 1969. The book will be launched by the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research at its Open Science Conference in Auckland, New …

First ‘comprehensive’ atlas of Southern Ocean marine life unveiled
ABC Online – ‎‎
The 3.5-kilogram book, published by the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research, was being launched in Auckland today as part of the Open Science conference. The atlas details more than 9,000 species, looking at their evolution, physical environment …

biologists unlock the secrets of Antarctica
The Independent-11 hours ago
Dr Katrin Linse, an expert in Antarctic molluscs at the British Antartic … Huw Griffiths, author and editor of the British Antarctic Survey, said: “The ..

Congratulations to editors Claude de Broyer and Philippe Koubbi on this extraordinary achievement, and to Michael Stoddard, Victoria Wadley, Huw Griffiths, and other leaders of CAML.

I keep thinking the CoML is complete, then one more publication 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

Journalist Peter Brannen has published an excellent article, “Sound off,” about the International Quiet Ocean Experiment (IQOE) in the independent web magazine Aeon.

For more on the IQOE, please see Boyd et al. An International Quiet Ocean Experiment Oceanograpaphy 2011, and JH Ausubel Broadening the scope of global change to include illumination and noise SEED Magazine 2009.

The Long Now Foundation in San Francisco will host a lecture by Jesse Ausubel, “Nature is Rebounding: Land- and Ocean-sparing through Concentrating Human Activities,” Tuesday 13 January 2015 at the Jazz Center at 7:30 pm.  Thanks to Stewart Brand and Ryan Phelan for the invitation.

Jesse Ausubel was privileged to serve as co-lead scientist with University of Texas geologist Jamie Austin on the 4-10 September 2014 leg of the Exploring Atlantic Canyons and Seamounts expedition of the US Ocean Exploration program on the EV Okeanos Explorer. For brief video highlights (about two minutes each) from 2000 feet below the surface about 100 miles off the East Coast of the USA, click on Washington Canyon (6 Sept) and on Norfolk Canyon (7 Sept). Thanks to Roland Brian, Arthur Howard, and Jared Drewniak for great videography and editing. Submerged America is beautiful!

The Breakthrough Institute has posted Jesse Ausubel’s lecture “Cars and Civilization” in a linear, scrollable layout.  This version may be easier to read on some devices, though less attractive to print, than the “glossy” version on our website

The Italian website “Stasera leggiamo” (This evening let’s read) runs a favorable review of Jesse’s autobiography, “La liberazione dell’ ambiente”

This evening at the Old Whaling Church in Edgartown MA Jesse Ausubel will give a talk on “Meat & Potatoes and the American Landscape.”  Young reporter Nathaniel Horwitz prepared a good story for the Martha’s Vineyard Times anticipating the talk.

On 7 July 2014 Jesse Ausubel was interviewed by Heather Goldstone in her public radio program “Living Lab.” A short article describes the interview, which focused on questions of land use and land cover, and links to the hour-long podcast.