April 19, 2022
GovCon Different Podcast
“Dr. Melissa Flagg calls for an end to innovation tourism in order to regain thought leadership and systematically adopt new innovations as national security becomes fixated on technical superiority.”
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AI Competition With China Should Be Done the American Way
April 14, 2022
The National Interest
“The United States is uniquely positioned to take advantage of a decentralized artificial intelligence model.”
Science Policy from the Ground Up
Fall 2021
Issues in Science and Technology
“It’s time to modernize the federal role in the nation’s increasingly decentralized R&D ecosystem and unleash innovation at the local level.”
Plant and Animal Diversity Is Declining, But What About Microbial Diversity?
May 11, 2021
RealClear Science
“With alarms sounding about the declining diversity and populations of plants and animals, we post a related concern with equally profound implications: is the variety of microbial life, including viruses, changing too, and if so, in which direction and how fast? As plant and animal numbers shrink, some specialized microbes associated with them might vanish, too. But is there a net overall reduction occurring? If so, is it good or bad news or irrelevant for our species?”
Measuring Ambient Ocean Sound During the COVID-19 Pandemic
March 4, 2021
EOS Science News
“An expanded nonmilitary hydrophone network provides new opportunities to understand the variability and trends of ocean sound and the effects of sound on marine organisms.”
Time to Measure the Abundance of Ocean Life
March 2021
RealClear Science
“As humanity enters what the United Nations has designated the Ocean Decade, we do not know the total amount of marine life, the biomass, in the oceans. Many experts firmly believe the abundance of marine life is diminishing. However, we have time series for only a few taxa, and these make up a small fraction of the total amount of life. We have only crude, uncertain estimates of biomass by trophic level.”
Biological Information for the New Blue Economy and the Emerging Role of eDNA
2021
The Rockefeller University
“From microbes to mammals, near shore to mid-ocean, and seafloor to seabirds, humans want and need to know about ocean life. Obvious benefits have derived from more accurate means of locating high-value wild fish for food or for protection in the interests of recreation and conservation. Fishers and dive shop operators may use the same information for opposite purposes. Surveyors have traditionally monitored sea life by observing seafood markets and trawl nets, by diving with goggles and clipboards, and more recently by deploying sonars and cameras, and sieving bits of extracellular DNA shed in seawater.”
Observing Life in a Changing Ocean: Exploring a ‘Census of Marine Life’ Today
January 2021
Consortium for Ocean Leadership Symposium