Jack Reeves and his science.

Science and Sociology: Predictive Power is the Name of the Game, Sheldon Ekland-Olson & Jack P. Gibbs (2017), Routledge, ISBN 978-1-138-04784-6

Guidelines for the performance of a comprehensive intraoperative epiaortic ultrasonographic examination: recommendations of the American Society of Echocardiography and the Society of Cardiovascular Anesthesiologists; endorsed by the Society of Thoracic Surgeons.

Kathryn E. Glas, MD, FASE, Madhav Swaminathan, MD, FASE, Scott T. Reeves, MD, FASE, Jack S. Shanewise, MD, FASE, David Rubenson, MD, FASE, Peter K. Smith, MD, Joseph P. Mathew, MD, FASE, and Stanton K. Shernan, MD, FASE, for The Council for Intraoperative Echocardiography of the American Society of Echocardiography, Atlanta, Georgia; Durham, North Carolina; Charleston, South Carolina; New York,...

Obituary: In memory of Jack Leunissen

It has already been a year since Jack Leunissen, a former member of the editorial board of Briefings in Bioinformatics, passed away on 14 May 2012. Professor Dr Jack A.M. Leunissen was one of the pioneers of bioinformatics in the Netherlands, in Europe and around the world. Together with senior members of the European Molecular Biology Network (EMBnet), Jack worked with Henry Stewart Publicatio...

Native Fish Conservation Areas: A Vision for Large-Scale Conservation of Native Fish Communities

The status of freshwater fishes continues to decline despite substantial conservation efforts to reverse this trend and recover threatened and endangered aquatic species. Lack of success is partially due to working at smaller spatial scales and focusing on habitats and species that are already degraded. Protecting entire watersheds and aquatic communities, which we term “native fish conservatio...

The herd shot “round the world”

My story begins on the third day of July in the year 1960. Early that morning, one could have seen Bill Wilson driving a heavily loaded, 18-wheel cattle truck as he began his ascent up the winding road that leads to the summit of the mountain. However, his destination was Summit Lake Flats (Fig. 1A), a broad stretch of tundra lying just below the peak but well above tree line at an elevation of...