Levitt and Dubner Visit Seattle
Category: Bookworm
Levitt and Dubner left a lot to be desired.
Posted by Jennifer L. Jacquet at 4:40 PM • 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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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
A Memorial for Vanishing Species
Category: Stylized Substance
Maya Lin's last memorial.
Posted by Jennifer L. Jacquet at 5:52 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Morton on Arts vs. Science
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...
Posted by Jennifer L. Jacquet at 6:59 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Dehumanized and Possibly Deluded
Category: Stylized Substance
A few notes on Mark Sloukas' piece in Harper's.
Posted by Jennifer L. Jacquet at 4:18 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Will This Trash Can Reduce Waste?
Category: Consumed
This is a new trash can in the Environmental Sciences building at Western Washington University. I like the "landfill" label....
Posted by Jennifer L. Jacquet at 1:36 PM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
MPAs Work
Category: Solutions
Marine protected areas work.
Posted by Jennifer L. Jacquet at 9:34 AM • 4 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
Ice and Dice Aerial Trawlers
Category: Stylized Substance
Greenpeace International is creating a series of animated films to generate interest in their global marine reserves campaign. I like the commentary on technological efficiency, especially the bit about the "ice and dice aerial trawler", in their first piece. See...
Posted by Jennifer L. Jacquet at 10:01 AM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Stylized Substance
Category: Stylized Substance
A review of Randy Olson's Don't Be Such a Scientist.
Posted by Jennifer L. Jacquet at 3:07 PM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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