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Director's Seminar
08/02/07 - 4:00 PM - Lillie Auditorium
"Counting all the fish in the sea: The progress of the Census of Marine Life research program" - Jesse Ausubel, Director, Program for the Human Environment, The Rockefeller University, and Program Director, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation - 4:00 PM, Lillie Auditorium
Abstract:
From microbes to mammals, Arctic to Antarctic, abyss to surface, and near shore to mid-ocean, scientists from 80 countries are producing the first Census of Marine Life. The project, to be completed in 2010, will assess and explain the diversity, distribution, and abundance of ocean life. Ausubel, who helped initiate the Census, will report its progress.
Jesse H. Ausubel is Director of the Program for the Human Environment at The Rockefeller University and a Program Director for the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation in New York City. Mr. Ausubel spent the first decade of his career working for the US National Academy of Sciences and National Academy of Engineering. On behalf of the Academies, he was one of the main organizers of the first UN World Climate Conference in Geneva in 1979. He was also the main author of the 1983 NRC report Changing Climate, the first comprehensive review of the greenhouse effect. In the late 1990s Mr. Ausubel helped initiate The Census of Marine Life. Beginning in 2002 he helped found the Barcode of Life Initiative, which aims to provide short DNA sequences that identify all animal, plant, and fungal species. He is now also engaged in creating an on-line "Encyclopedia of Life" to provide a web page for every species. Since 1989 Mr. Ausubel has served on the faculty of The Rockefeller University, where he seeks to elaborate the technical vision of a large, prosperous society that emits little or nothing harmful and spares large amounts of land and sea for nature.
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