The New York Times quotes us in an article on stablization of methane emissions.
News
CoML Baseline Report and a Lyd og Video
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 the Next 1000 Years participants
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.
Sloan Digital Archive
With his Sloan hat on, Jesse helped bring the September 11 Digital Archive (https://911digitalarchive.org) into existence. On September 11, 2003 the Library of Congress held a Symposium on “September 11 as History” to reflect on the events and to mark the Library’s first major digital acquisition of September 11, 2001, materials with the addition to its collections of the September 11 Digital Archive. For the press release about the accession visit
https://www.loc.gov/today/pr/2003/03-142.html
, while the Symposium program and eventually its webcast are at
https://www.loc.gov/rr/program/911symposium/
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CoML on CNN
The Census of Marine Life, which Jesse has helped develop, is growing fast. The Associated Press has just issued a lively account of some of the nascent field projects.
Barcode of Life
Our efforts on environmental genomics begin to bear fruit. A “Barcode of Life” project seems likely to proceed based on the just-completed “Banbury II” conference on DNA & taxonomy at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory.
On this site you can Read Mark Stoeckle’s September 2003 Bioscience essay on “Taxonomy, DNA, and the Bar Code of Life” and the “Barcode of Life scientific rationale and strategy” by Mark & Jesse prepared for Banbury. Mark also co-authored the DNA Barcoding Protocol for the Census of Marine Life. For the essential science of barcoding, visit Paul Hebert’s site.
WSJ 30 May
The program Jesse has managed for the Sloan Foundation on the Known, the Unknown, and the Unknowable is featured in the Wall Street Journal (May 30)0r the original article scanned.
UN CoML Talk
On 4 June Jesse addressed a session of the UN Informal Consultative Process on Oceans and Law of the Sea in New York City about the Census of Marine Life. We post Jesse’s short talk and power point slide show (Warning – 8.1MB file!)
Jesse’s Oak Ridge slides
Jesse presented the 9th annual Alvin M. Weinberg lecture at Oak Ridge National Laboratory 5 June, expanding his April Austin talk on decarbonization. Now 88 and continuously creative, Alvin directed the lab from 1948-1973 and has mentored us in energy systems. Here is the expanded Oak Ridge version of “Decarbonization: The Next 100 Years” and its Powerpoint slides.
DNA barcoding Protocol for CoML
DNA barcoding is an exciting new approach to taxonomy that will have profound value for studies of environment and
evolution. PHE Guest Investigator Mark Stoeckle took the lead in preparing the Census of Marine Life (CoML) DNA Barcoding Protocol.
CoML is the first organization to officially promote this new approach, highlighted in Nature magazine 15 May 2003.