Dr Ausubel is a director of the Program for the Human Environment at the Rockefeller University, Program Director and Vice-President of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, and adjunct faculty member of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. Dr. Ausubel ‘s research interests include environmental science and technology and industrial evolution. Dr. Ausubel was instrumental in the development of the Census of Marine Life and participates in the creation of the Encyclopedia of Life, a Web site that will catalog all of Earth’s 1.8 million known and named species. He also initiated the International Quiet Ocean Experiment programme that is currently under development under the auspices of POGO and SCOR.