News

We post a photo of a Eurasian Eagle Owl, Bubo bubo, participating in the 2004 Lindbergh conference on mobility. Jesse felt the owl, who did not use Powerpoint but did demonstrate how to catch a mouse, gave the best presentation of the conference.

The big London DNA barcoding jamboree earned extensive press coverage, ranging from BBC and CNN to Science. 

https://phe.rockefeller.edu/PDF_FILES/Marshall2005.pdf

Barcoding of Life Conference at London Natural History Museum February 7-9, 2005 was a major scientific and organizational event. Important new discovery of an effective barcode for higher plants announced, and three major barcoding initiatives launched: 1) World Fishes, 2) All Plants of Costa Rica, and 3) World Birds, the latter led by Mark Stoeckle together with researchers at Guelph and Smithsonian Institution. Excellent worldwide press coverage (link to attached pdf of barcode coverage). Our new barcoding brochure was well received at conference and downloaded heavily from our revamped website, https://phe.rockefeller.edu/BarcodeConference/

Mark Stoeckle, Paul Waggoner, and Jesse have prepared “Barcoding Life, Illustrated”, a brief brochure on the goals, rationale, and early results of this new technology for species identification and biodiversity science.

https://phe.rockefeller.edu/PDF_FILES/BLIllustrated26jan04print v1-3.pdf

Science News featured our work on DNA barcoding of birds as its cover story
4 December with a great cover illustration.

https://phe.rockefeller.edu/PDF_FILES/ScienceNews_4Dec2004.pdf

The proceedings of the October 2004 SuperGrid 2 conference on
the Continental SuperGrid for distribution of electricity and
hydrogen have been posted by Paul Grant along with lots of other
good material about the SuperGrid at:

https://www.w2agz.com/SG%20-%20SuperGrid%202%20Proceedings.htm

PHE welcomes Donald Jenkins, former manager of advanced propulsion at Rocketdyne, to work with us part-time from his home in Southern California on design issues for zero emission power plants.

We post the colorfully illustrated 4-page poster-like 2004 Highlights Report of the Census of Marine Life, which Jesse helped author.

https://phe.rockefeller.edu/PDF_FILES/CoMLAnnHigh04Report.pdf

Today’s New York Times Science Times section has an article
A Species in a Second: Promise of DNA ‘Bar Codes’ with a good history of the DNA Barcode project and a nice graphic as well.

https://phe.rockefeller.edu/PDF_FILES/NYTimes_14Dec2004.pdf

https://phe.rockefeller.edu/PDF_FILES/NYTimes_14Dec2004_Graphic.pdf