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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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July 30-August 1, 2010: Attending Sci Foo Camp hosted by Nature, O'Reilly and Google at the Googleplex, Mountain View, CA.

June 19, 2010: Presenting at the Human Behavior and Evolution Society Annual Meeting at the University of Oregon in Eugene.

May 2010: Counting fish: A typology for fisheries catch data published in The Journal of Integrative Environmental Sciences.

May 3-7, 2010: Workshop: Incorporating Appropriate Ecological Baselines into Management of Ocean Resources at the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C.

April 24, 2010: Q&A following a screening of The End of the Line at the Food Film Festival in Portland, Oregon.

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.

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Category: Stylized Substance
Posted on: May 25, 2009 11:26 PM, by Jennifer L. Jacquet

I remember back in my teenage years unpacking the car during a vacation and singing a little tune I made up and envisioned turning into an entire Broadway musical (unfortunately, you cannot hear the catchy tune that went along with it):

Stuff.
We have too much of it: stuff.
We still want more of it: stuff.
It's tough to have so much stuff.

And, as the ever-resourceful Mike Hirshfield of Oceana pointed out to me at the recent IMCC meeting when we were talking about the post on The Story of Stuff, George Carlin did the original Stuff Story in this stand-up comedy routine from 1986:

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hilarious, and oh-so-true. Self storage and garages full of stuff (with the cars parked in the driveway) were one of the most confusing things I've encountered when moving to the States.

Anyway, all this talk about stuff is fascinating, and has motivated me to look a bit more into the history of stuff, but so far all i've found is relatively modern info about our own relationship with stuff... nothing about (pre-)historical cultures' relationships with stuff. must look around more.

Posted by: Jadehawk | May 26, 2009 1:41 PM

I think there may be a bit homage to Carlin in this cartoon Interview With The Tick. Starting at 00:49.

I am doing my best to de-accumulate these days, and it's surprisingly difficult. Like losing weight, and maybe for the same reasons.

Posted by: george.w | May 26, 2009 3:46 PM

I read not long ago so good topic. Simply great

Posted by: Michael | May 27, 2009 1:29 PM

I am very interested in this topic. You could write something more? Warm greetings to the author and all readers.

Posted by: darmowe ebooki | May 28, 2009 4:05 PM

Hi, I stumbled acrioss your blog while prowling scienceblogs (usually I like PZ [sorry] and some who are now gone). And I saw your idea of a musical. Check this one out - you have to wait for the singing...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zTvqFhrWOTw

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I am very interested in this topic. You could write something more? Warm greetings to the author and all readers.

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Posted by: SSI | August 16, 2009 4:52 PM