News

We post a summary of “Ten Reasons for Barcoding Life” by Mark Stoeckle, Paul Waggoner, and Jesse Ausubel.

https://phe.rockefeller.edu/BarcodeConference

Jesse’s essay “Will the Rest of the World Live Like America?” appears in
Technology in Society’s 25th anniversary issue.

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

We welcome Tony Barrett as a Research Intern to the Program for the Human Environment. Mr. Barrett is a graduate of the University of California, San Diego having earned a Bachelor of Science Degree with a major in Chemical Engineering. During his internship with PHE, he will be assembling and analyzing data from various sources to support ongoing research.

https://www.tony-barrett.com/resume.htm

A January 11 column in the Los Angeles Times favors the Census of Marine Life over the mission to Mars. So do we!

Read our copy of the column (PDF).

Many of the works of our esteemed colleague Cesare Marchetti are
now available on their own site: https://cesaremarchetti.org

PHE investigator Mark Stoeckle is quoted on DNA barcoding
in a vivid if not perfectly accurate article in the San Jose Mercury News.

https://phe.rockefeller.edu/BarcodeConference/articles.html#000243

The New York Times quotes us in an article on stablization of methane emissions.

This is a big week for the Census of Marine Life, highlighted by the release on 23 October of its Baseline Report.

On 16 October the Norwegian Broadcasting Company aired a film from CoML’s June 2003 MIR submersible dives to the mid-Atlantic Ridge, as part of the prime time program ‘Schoedinger’s Cat’. The short Lyd og Video captures the 4,500 meter descent and the animals around.

Thanks to everyone who participated in our conference 9-10 October at The Rockefeller University on “The Next 1000 Years.” The conference inspired us. We are pondering what to do with the many interesting ideas put forward. More news in a few weeks.