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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.
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.
November 2008:
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....
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Category: Food Systems
Spot-prawn lovers objecting to marine reserves. What the heck?
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Category: Food Systems
Are you an eco-douchebag? Take this simple test.
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Category: Consumed
Should we believe Wal-Mart when it says it's going green?
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Category: What the...?
Arctic goo found off Alaska identified as marine algae.
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Category: What the...?
The blue-haired head south to La Jolla shores in the winter while the summertime is prone to a different migration. Jumbo Humboldt squid now make their way north. This weekend, San Diego's coast has been swarmed by schools of the...
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Category: What the...?
New arctic goo found of the AK coast...
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Category: Consumed
As a way of counteracting some of the work by Environmental Working Group, the Sea Turtle Restoration Project, and Oceana to inform consumers about the health risks of consuming too much seafood, a new website was just launched called HowMuchFish.com,...
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Category: What the...?
Egg laying mammals or pregnant males?
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Category: What the...?
A jellyfish crop circle.
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