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Jennifer Jacquet is a postdoctoral research fellow working with Dr. Daniel Pauly and the Sea Around Us Project at the UBC Fisheries Centre. As a kid, she read 50 Simple Things Kids Can Do to Save the Earth and would come to discover that while those 50 things were indeed simple, saving the Earth was not.

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March 12, 2010: Presenting at the World Affairs Conference of Northern California in San Francisco.

February 21, 2010: Co-organizing and presenting on the panel Preserving the Global Commons Through Conservation and Cooperation at the AAAS meeting in San Diego.

January-March 2010: Visiting lecturer at the Scripps Insitution of Oceanography, UCSD. Co-teaching Topics in Marine Conservation with Jeremy Jackson.

November 2009: Conserving Wild Fish in a Sea of Market-Based Efforts published online at Oryx

August 14, 2009: Dan Ax at Avukado Productions makes the following short video for Guilty Planet:

July 30, 2009: Successfully defended Ph.D. dissertation Fish as Food in an Age of Globalization at the University of British Columbia.

June 2009: Published at Conservation Biology: What Can Conservationists Learn from Investor Behavior?

May 27, 2009: Talk titled "Historical Renaming and Mislabeling of Fish" given the Oceans Past II conference in Vancouver, B.C.

May 24, 2009: Talk at the International Marine Conservation Congress in Washington, D.C.

March 24, 2009: Dave Beck and I showcase our jellyfish burger in Scientific American's photo gallery:

March 24, 2009: Talk at the Student Conference for Conservation Science at Cambridge University, UK.

March 14, 2009: Talk at the Kettle's Yard Problemathon for Cambridge's Science Festival.

March 3, 2009: Talk titled "Guilt v. Shame in Market Based Efforts to Save Our Fish" at the Max Planck Institute in Ploen, Germany.

February 27, 2009: Talk at Fauna & Flora International.

January-March 2009: Visiting researcher with Bill Sutherland's lab in the Conservation Science Group at the University of Cambridge.

November 2008: A new study In hot soup: sharks captured in Ecuador's waters published in Environmental Sciences.

November 2008:

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Assuage Guilt: Get Inspired. Do Something.

Category: Inspiration • Stylized Substance • The Conscience
Posted on: May 14, 2009 11:47 PM, by Jennifer L. Jacquet

President Obama gives an inspiring commencement speech at Arizona State University fitting for anyone feeling guilty about privilege, the poverty of ambition, and the insufficiency of material culture...

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