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 • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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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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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 • 6 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
A New Focus on Ocean Conservation?
Category: Oceans
There might not be focus on ocean conservation, but there should be.
Posted by Jennifer L. Jacquet at 11:09 PM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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
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
A Call to Give Up Seafood
Category: Consumed
An interview on why we should give up seafood.
Posted by Jennifer L. Jacquet at 2:50 PM • 12 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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