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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.
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.
November 2008:
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Category: What the...?
Posted on: July 15, 2009 7:49 PM, by Jennifer L. Jacquet
Well, it may not be as hip and fresh as Kid Cudi's track Dat New New (pardon the unusual digression, but he is from Ohio...), but a 12-mile slick of arctic goo has hit the streets -- or at least the oceans -- around arctic Alaska. According to The Anchorage Daily News, the goo is organic (not oil, but some kind of organism) and one coast guard official said the following:
"It kind of has an odor; I can't describe it."
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Comments
One can't help but wonder:
Do Cudi's braggadacio ryhmes operate as a double-entendre for the tenacity required to maintain a healthy and sustainable planet, given all the organic and man-made challenges out there?
Consider, from the DNN track referenced in this post:
We'd need even more than that to stop all the goo, be it corporate or organic....
Posted by: BobbleHead | July 15, 2009 8:15 PM
Looks like a thick mass of algae, probably most a red alga, and probably mixed with more than a little filamentous cyanobacteria. Just a WAG...
Posted by: Ron | July 15, 2009 10:24 PM
If they can't figure out what it is, why don't the Goo-gle it?!
Posted by: Ian | July 16, 2009 9:00 AM
Sort of reminds me of this delightful quote from a NYMag article: "A team of biology professors at New York City College of Technology have also studied a curious white goo oozing along the bottom, which turned out to be a mix of bacteria, protozoans, and various contaminants."
Ew. (Article: http://nymag.com/news/intelligencer/topic/57886/)
Posted by: Erin | July 16, 2009 10:47 AM
Ever see Creepshow 2? Looks like the blob that killed all those teenagers in the lake!!!
Posted by: Rich | July 16, 2009 2:19 PM
Yep, I Googled it and this is what I found. Scary stuff indeed:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Blob
Damn aliens, always trying to sneak onto the planet and cause all sorts of disruptive biological transformations without any regard for human life. The indignity of them. Well, until the 'Ocean Scientists,' arrive at a more sound explanation, I am sticking with the 'Blob' theory...
Posted by: Chris | July 16, 2009 2:23 PM
I have video of this blob up on youtube. click on my url if you're interested.
Posted by: Jason | July 16, 2009 3:11 PM
But can we eat it?
Posted by: Dunc | July 17, 2009 10:12 AM
If its Red Alge can we harvest it? It's a floating gold mine!
Posted by: Christopher Guerra | July 19, 2009 11:23 PM