The Cure for Planetary Amnesia
Jennifer Jacquet is a Ph.D. candidate with the Sea Around Us Project at the UBC Fisheries Centre. She works closely with Dr. Daniel Pauly, who coined the term Shifting Baselines, the syndrome on which this blog focuses.
Josh Donlan is a conservation scientist and a Visting Fellow at Cornell University. He often hides out in the backcountry of the Teton Mountains, pondering bygone giant beavers and ground sloths. He also is also the founder and Director of Advanced Conservation Strategies and has a habit of restoring remote islands.
April 2008: Randy Olson and the Puget Sound Partnership release the flash video Shifting Baselines in the Sound.
April 18, 2008: Jennifer Jacquet gives the talk "Market Inefficiencies: Why Do We Waste Good Fish on Pigs?" at a forage fish workshop hosted by the Marine Fish Conservation Network.
April 15, 2008: Josh Donlan gives a invited talk in New York at Wildlife Conservation Society's annual meeting, Gateways to Conservation 2008: The State of the Wild.
April 5, 2008: Randy Olson delivers the Claude Bernard Distinguished Lecture at the American Physiological Society meeting in San Diego, titled, "Don't Be Such a Scientist: Talking substance in an age of style."
March 15, 2008: Josh Donlan is selected as a 2008 Kinship Conservation Fellow. He will join 17 others from around the world to explore business and economic tools for biodiversity conservation gains.
March 6-13, 2008: Josh Donlan co-directs a working group at the US National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis in Santa Barbara. The group is exploring biodiversity offsets and market-based instruments as solutions for biodiversity-fishery bycatch offsets.
Mar. 25-27, 2008: Randy Olson presents his films and his "Don't Be Such a Scientist" lecture on science communication at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Panama.
Mar. 2008: Dr. Josh Donlan joins the Shifting Baselines blog.
Jan. 2008 Jennifer Jacquet launches the Eat Like a Pig Seafood Wallet Card
June 29, 2007
Category: Communicating
You might remember John Hocevar from Ocean Day. At the end of July, John and the Greenpeace crew will set out to explore the depths of the Bering Sea. They will use some pretty high-tech tools on the expedition, including...
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Category: Losing Track
Due to some technical difficulties with comments, I have had to re-post this entry. Some comments may have been lost in so doing... After the New York Times ran this week's article, Waiter, There's Deer in My Sushi, they followed...
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June 28, 2007
Category: Solutions
Stephen Colbert loves this: bald eagles were removed today from the U.S. Endangered Species List. What Stephen won't like is that the delisting serves as a testament to government regulations and the hard work of environmentalists (such as Rachel...
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June 27, 2007
Category: Losing Track
Maybe it's because people became increasingly uncomfortable with marine mammals in captivity. Maybe it's because they are low maintenance. For whatever reason, it seems jellyfish exhibits at aquaria are on the rise. Monterey Bay's Jellies: Living Art pays homage to...
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June 26, 2007
Category: Ocean Politics
Posted by Jack Sterne, jack@oceanchampions.org A couple of weeks ago, the Senate "easily" beat back a proposal by Sen. John Warner (R-Va.) to open the coast of Virginia to drilling for natural gas. My what a difference a year makes!...
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Category: Ocean Politics
Posted by Jack Sterne, jack@oceanchampions.org As I talked about earlier, last November millions of voters changed the face of Congress, and conservationists made headlines for playing significant roles in the elections. We're now starting to see some of the fruits...
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June 25, 2007
Category: Losing Track
This could possibly be the shifting baselines story of the year. In today's Business Section of the New York Times is the article, Waiter, There's Deer in My Sushi. Japanese chefs are considering using smoked deer meat and raw horse...
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June 24, 2007
Category: Losing Track
Jeremy Jackson calls it "The Rise of Slime". Daniel Pauly sees a future in jellyfish burgers. And given that this week is the 2nd International Jellyfish Bloom Symposium--where D. Pauly will deliver the keynote address (having not been able to...
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June 23, 2007
Category: Losing Track
Marine protected areas are meant to be one way to counteract our 'collective amnesia' of what marine ecosystems should look like. Last week, a judge annulled a marine park buffer zone area in Brazil, just one year after its creation....
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June 21, 2007
Category: Solutions
Sequestering carbon in the oceans using large amounts of iron has been proposed as one way to offset our fossil fueled lifestyles. A host of burgeoning companies (e.g., TerraPass) have responded to the public's request to sequest. One of them,...
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