Census Perspectives

Census Perspectives provides a range of views on various aspects of the Census of Marine Life. Personal viewpoints are communicated via Conversations with participating scientists as well as their Essays and Editorials. Radio and Video Interviews and Speeches provide an inside look at the challenges and opportunities of conducting an international scientific collaboration over a ten-year period. Books are either associated with Census scientists or related to Census topics.

Conversations

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

Essays and Editorials

A Census of Ocean Life: On the Difficulty and Joy of Seeing What Is Near and Far
Jesse H. Ausubel, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Program Director, Census of Marine Life.
SGI Quarterly Number 60:6-8, April 2010.

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. 

Video Interviews

Dr. Barbara Block, Capturing and Tagging Great White Sharks
The Today Show, NBC.com, 2009

Video interviews produced, filmed, and edited by Rick Morris for the Census of Marine Life.
(Accessed through the Video Gallery)

Radio Interviews

Jesse H. Ausubel, The Census of Marine Life, A Count of All Ocean Life
Earth & Sky, 2010.

Dr. Mohideen Wafar, The Indian Angle to World's Marine Map
LiveMint.com and The Wall Street Journal, 2009.

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.

Print Interviews

Jesse H. Ausubel, The Big Picture (PDF)
Catalyst (Vol. 4, No. 2, Fall  2009)

Speeches

A Call for a Day of Peace With the Oceans (PDF)
Jesse H. Ausubel, Alfred P. Sloan Program Director, Census of Marine Life.
Acceptance Speech, Blue Frontier/Peter Benchley Awards, San Francisco, Califonia USA, 2010.

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

Discoveries of the Census of Marine Life
Paul V. R. Snelgrove
Cambridge University Press, 2010.

Citizens of the Sea
Nancy Knowlton
National Geographic Society, 2010.

Life in the World's Oceans
Alasdair D. McIntyre, editor
Blackwell Publishing, 2010.

Gulf of Mexico Origin, Waters, and Biota
Darrel L. Felder, David K. Camp editors
TAMU Press, 2009.

Life in the Mid Atlantic
Peter Boyle
Bergen Museum Press, 2009.

World Ocean Census
Darlene Trew Crist, Gail Scowcroft, James M. Harding, Jr.; Foreward by Sylvia Earle.
Firefly Books, 2009.

Field Techniques for Field Ice Research
Hajo Eicken, Rolf Gradinger, Maya Salganek, Kunio Shirasawa, Don Perovich, and Matti Leppäranta.
University of Alaska Press, 2009.

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.