Census Perspectives

Census Perspectives provides a range of views on various aspects of the Census of Marine Life.  Personal viewpoints are communicated via interviews with participating scientists in Conversations.  Interviews and Speeches provide an inside look at the challenges and opportunities of conducting an international scientific collaboration over a ten-year period.  Books is the beginning of what will be a long and lasting Census legacy.

Conversations

Dr. Malcolm Clark
Dr. Brigitte Ebbe
Dr. Russ Hopcroft
Ms. Bronwyn Innes
Dr. Ahmet Kideys
Dr. Eva Ramirez Llodra

Essays and Editorials

The Life of An Antarctic Archipelago
Editorial, The New York Times, December 4, 2008.

On the Limits to Knowledge of Future Marine Biodiversity (PDF)
Jesse H. Ausubel, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Program Director, Census of Marine Life.
The Electronic Journal of Sustainable Development 1(2): 19-23, 2008.
Keynote address from Scripps Institution of Oceanography conference.
 
Future Knowledge of Life in Oceans Past (PDF)
Jesse H. Ausubel, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Program Director, Census of Marine Life.
In Oceans Past: Management Insights from the History of Marine Animal Populations, D. J. Starkey, P. Holm, and M. Barnard (eds.), Earthscan, London and Sterling VA, 2008, p. xix-xxvi.

The Census of Marine Life: Progress and Prospects
Jesse H. Ausubel, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Program Director, Census of Marine Life.
Fisheries, the Journal of the American Fisheries Society Volume 26(7): 33-36, 2001.
 
Toward a Census of Marine Life
Jesse H. Ausubel, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Program Director, Census of Marine Life.
Oceanography 12(3):4-5, 1999. 

Interviews

Dr. Rusty Brainard, Changes in Diversity on Coral Reefs
National Geographic Weekend, Salem Radio Network, 2008.

Dr. Victoria Wadley, Unusual Animals of the Deep Southern Ocean
National Geographic Weekend, Salem Radio Network, 2008.

Dr. Martin Riddle, Diving for Giant Sea Spiders in the Antarctic  (Part 1  Part 2)
National Geographic Weekend, Salem Radio Network, 2008.

Speeches

On the Difficulty of Seeing What is Near (PDF)
Jesse H. Ausubel, Alfred P. Sloan Program Director, Census of Marine Life.
Plenary Address, NaGISA World Conference, Kobe Japan, 2006.

How to Census Marine Life (PDF)
Jesse H. Ausubel, Alfred P. Sloan Program Director, Census of Marine Life.
Telecom Italia Future Centre, Campo San Salvador, Venice Italy, 2006.

Books

Ocean, An Illustrated Atlas
Sylvia A. Earle and Linda K. Glover.
National Geographic, 2008.

Deeper Than Light
Maria Baker, Brigitte Ebbe, Jo Hoyer, Lenaick Menot, Bhavani Narayanaswamy, Eva Ramirez-Llodra, and Morten Steffensen.
Bergen Museum Press, 2007.

Singing Whales and Flying Squid: The Discovery of Marine Life
Richard Ellis.
The Lyons Press, 2006.

For scientific publications by Census of Marine Life researchers, see the Bibliographic Database.