Director of the Program for the Human Environment at The Rockefeller University, began his career as a resident fellow of the Climate Research Board of the US National Academy of Sciences, for whom he helped organize the first UN World Climate Conference in 1979. Since 1989 Mr. Ausubel has served on the faculty of Rockefeller, where he leads a program to elaborate the technical vision of a large, prosperous society that emits little harmful and spares large amounts of land and sea for nature. In the late 1990s Mr. Ausubel initiated the first global Census of Marine Life to assess and explain the diversity, distribution, and abundance of life in all oceans. He now advances use of naked DNA in seawater for low-cost, easy surveys of marine life that do not disturb the animals. Mr. Ausubel is an adjunct scientist of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution and member of the Council on Foreign Relations where he serves on the board of Foreign Affairs. A deep sea lobster, Dinochelus ausubeli, and genus of Bryozoa (small aquatic invertebrates), the Jessethoa, are named in his honor. His family began summering in Oak Bluffs in 1955.
