Jesse Ausubel

Ausubel leads Rockefeller University’s Program for the Human Environment, which elaborates the technical vision of a large, prosperous society that emits little harmful and spares large amounts of land and sea for nature.  Ausubel initiated and helped lead the World Climate Program, Census of Marine Life, Barcode of Life Initiative, Deep Carbon Observatory, and International Quiet Ocean Experiment.  His lab pioneers use of naked DNA in seawater to assess presence and abundance of marine species.  A lobster, Dinochelus ausubeli, is named in his honor and a genus of Bryozoans, the Jessethoa.