The Paralysis of Thinking Big
Category: Guilt
Too much to care and criticize in this world...
Posted by Jennifer L. Jacquet at 5:57 PM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Guilty Planet
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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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:
Oceans:
Bad News, Good News, Overdue News
Category: Oceans
Some of the latest from ocean conservation.
Posted by Jennifer L. Jacquet at 5:23 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
CITES Rejects Bluefin Tuna Ban: Another Failure to See Fish as Wildlife
Category: Oceans
The UN has rejected the proposal that Atlantic bluefin tuna be listed by the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species, or CITES, which is currently in session. CITES regulates the international trade of threatened species. All imports, exports and...
Posted by Jennifer L. Jacquet at 10:50 AM • 9 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Dolphin in Utero
Category: Oceans
A representation of an eight-week dolphin fetus inside its mother's womb.
Posted by Jennifer L. Jacquet at 10:47 AM • 6 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Using Reputation to Save the Oceans
Category: Reputation
Why focusing on consumers to save our oceans is not enough.
Posted by Jennifer L. Jacquet at 4:56 PM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Weird Oceans: Coral Eating Jelly, Blobfish, and Lumpsuckers
Category: Oceans
Weird photos from the ocean, including the first ever photograph of a coral eating a jellyfish.
Posted by Jennifer L. Jacquet at 8:44 AM • 10 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Jacques Cousteau: The Sea King (for a Time)
Category: Bookworm
My review of Brad Matsen's new book Jacques Cousteau: The Sea King is out today at SEED Magazine today (the SEED graphic is so cool). In reviewing the book two things struck me: 1) that I knew actually very little...
Posted by Jennifer L. Jacquet at 12:29 PM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Loose Tentacles Sink Ships
Category: What the...?
A trawler off of Japan capsized as its three man crew tried to haul in their net containing dozens of huge Nomura jellyfish. The three men were rescued but the boat apparently sank. Read the full story in The Telegraph....
Posted by Jennifer L. Jacquet at 12:25 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Aquacalypse Now
Category: Oceans
My former supervisor/now boss (and OG of overfishing) has a piece out in The New Republic with the wonderfully garish title of Aquacalypse Now. He explains how the fishing industry can contribute a minuscule amount to the GDP of advanced...
Posted by Jennifer L. Jacquet at 1:20 AM • 8 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
New Arctic Jellies
Category: Oceans
Check out this BBC article on the new jellies discovered from a scientific expedition to the Arctic. This new jelly looks like some sort of catering device for bacon strips or mango slices -- depending on your appetite:...
Posted by Jennifer L. Jacquet at 10:17 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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