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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.
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October 31, 2009
Category: Bookworm
It's no wonder that the most recent Pew report finds that belief in rising temperatures is down. As Jim Hoggan explains in his new book Climate Cover-Up, the media and the public it serves are awash in a corporate conspiracy...
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October 28, 2009
Category: Bookworm
Oliver Morton wrote a delightful book all about photosynthesis called Eating the Sun: How Plants Power the Planet, which I reviewed earlier this year for Search Magazine (R.I.P.) under the title "A Song for the Heartless". One of my favorite...
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October 27, 2009
Category: Stylized Substance
A few notes on Mark Sloukas' piece in Harper's.
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October 25, 2009
Category: Solutions
Americans are losing so much money each year. Why not gamble it away on a good cause?
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October 21, 2009
Category: Guilt
Obama administration says not to expect any new marine reserves.
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October 19, 2009
I have decided to add a new category on greenwashing. It's so prolific, we simply must have some displayed here on Guilty Planet. I am in favor of companies doing the right thing and I imagine that Nature's Path is...
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October 16, 2009
Category: Consumed
This is a new trash can in the Environmental Sciences building at Western Washington University. I like the "landfill" label....
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October 9, 2009
Category: Solutions
Marine protected areas work.
Posted by Jennifer L. Jacquet at 9:34 AM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
October 7, 2009
Category: Food Systems
Let's make yogurt better.
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October 2, 2009
Category: Guilt
A classically held anthropological view is that "shame results from a public exposure of some impropriety or shortcoming whereas guilt results from more private events." I concur with the anthropological notion that shame is the more public emotion (and also,...
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