A Real Jellyfish Burger
Category: Food Systems
After considering it only as "an absurd metaphor", a real jellyfish burger is now being sold in Japan.
Posted by Jennifer L. Jacquet at 11:50 AM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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Seeking reason amidst the irrational madness of destroying one's only home.
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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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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: In press at Oryx: "Conserving Wild Fish in a Sea of Market-Based Efforts"
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.
November 2008: A new study In hot soup: sharks captured in Ecuador's waters published in Environmental Sciences.
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July 22, 2009
The Future of Photojournalism
Category: Stylized Substance
What is the future of photojournalism?
Posted by Jennifer L. Jacquet at 6:08 PM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
July 20, 2009
Another Year, Another Giant Jellyfish Invasion
Category: Oceans
In yet another case of jellyfish bloom and gloom, the gigantic Nomura jellyfish are back in the Sea of Japan for the third year since 2005. Check out the full story at CNN....
Posted by Jennifer L. Jacquet at 12:36 PM • 6 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
July 19, 2009
Arctic Goo Update
Category: What the...?
Arctic goo found off Alaska identified as marine algae.
Posted by Jennifer L. Jacquet at 2:19 PM • 7 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
"Carnivorous Calamari" Retire in San Diego
Category: What the...?
The blue-haired head south to La Jolla shores in the winter while the summertime is prone to a different migration. Jumbo Humboldt squid now make their way north. This weekend, San Diego's coast has been swarmed by schools of the...
Posted by Jennifer L. Jacquet at 12:59 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
July 16, 2009
End of Line
Category: Food Systems
The End of the Line, a documentary on global overfishing sparked by Charles Clover's book by the same title, has sparked many public conversations about global overfishing. The latest discussion takes place today at SEED magazine, where several fisheries experts...
Posted by Jennifer L. Jacquet at 3:43 PM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
July 15, 2009
Arctic Goo: Dat New New
Category: What the...?
New arctic goo found of the AK coast...
Posted by Jennifer L. Jacquet at 7:49 PM • 9 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
July 13, 2009
Industry-Sponsored Polluted Seafood Calculator
Category: Consumed
As a way of counteracting some of the work by Environmental Working Group, the Sea Turtle Restoration Project, and Oceana to inform consumers about the health risks of consuming too much seafood, a new website was just launched called HowMuchFish.com,...
Posted by Jennifer L. Jacquet at 4:39 PM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
July 8, 2009
Jellyfish and Vermin: The Future of Food?
Category: Food Systems
Jellyfish, insects, and rodents could be the meat of the future...
Posted by Jennifer L. Jacquet at 9:42 AM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
July 1, 2009
UK Neighborhood Captures Litterbugs on Film
Category: Cooperation
Neighborhood uses technology to catch litterbugs.
Posted by Jennifer L. Jacquet at 2:54 PM • 12 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
