Later, he led the Climate Task of the Resources and Environment Program of the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, near Vienna, Austria, an East-West think-tank created by the U.S. and Soviet academies of sciences.
Ausubel also participated in the creation of and served as founding chair of the Encyclopedia of Life, a biodiversity web site modeled on Wikipedia, aimed at cataloging all known and named species on Earth.
[4] With William Massy, Trevor Chan, and Ben Sawyer, he developed and released in 2000 the first interactive simulation model of the US university, Virtual U.
[8] Also named for Mr. Ausubel is a new genus of Bryozoans, the Jessethoa, discovered and described[9] by Dennis P. Gordon, taxonomist at New Zealand’s National Institute of Water & Atmospheric Research.
Small aquatic invertebrates with exoskeletons that typically sieve food particles out of the water with a crown of tentacles, the new Jessethoa[10] Bryozoans are included in the World Registry of Marine Species.
In 2022 the University of California at San Diego awarded Ausubel the Nierenberg Prize for Science in the Public Interest for conceiving, developing, and leading numerous projects to observe and better understand the environment.