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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.
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July 26, 2008: Randy Olson's film Sizzle premieres on the East Coast at the Woods Hole Film Festival in MA.
July 22, 2008: Jennifer Jacquet gives the talk "A Way Forward in a Sea of Market Based Initiatives to Save Wild Fish" at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in La Jolla, CA.
July 19, 2008: Randy Olson's film Sizzle premieres on the West Coast at Outfest in Hollywood, CA.
July 17, 2008: Jennifer Jacquet gives the talk "In Hot Soup: Shark's Captured in Ecuador's Waters" at the Society for Conservation Biology Annual Meeting in Chattanooga, TN.
July 9, 2008: Jennifer Jacquet gives the talk "Flawed Data, Reef Fisheries, And Food Security: A Close Inspection Of Marine Fisheries Catches in Mozambique, Tanzania, Fiji, And The Solomon Islands" at the 11th International Coral Reef Symposium in Ft. Lauderdale, FL.
June/July 2008: Josh Donlan attends training for his Kinship Conservation Fellowship in Bellingham, WA.
May 2008: Josh Donlan is an author on a new paper in Ambio titled High impact Conservation: Invasive Mammal Eradications from the Islands of Western Mexico.
May 15, 2008: Jennifer Jacquet reviews Bottomfeeder: How to Eat Ethically in a World of Vanishing Seafood at the Tyee.
April 2008: Trade Secrets: Renaming and Mislabeling of Seafood by Jennifer Jacquet and Daniel Pauly is published in Marine Policy.
April 2008: Randy Olson and the Puget Sound Partnership release the flash video Shifting Baselines in the Sound:.
Mar. 2008: Dr. Josh Donlan joins the Shifting Baselines blog.
Jan. 2008 Jennifer Jacquet launches the Eat Like a Pig Seafood Wallet Card
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Love Lists? 10 Solutions to Save Our Oceans
Category: Solutions
Posted on: August 10, 2007 5:19 AM, by Jennifer L. Jacquet
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One key solution is missing from the list. We need to connect people with ocean life, and take people under the surface.
Pictures of nice beaches provide a soothing but cool and disconnected view of the oceans. We need to do the Jacques Cousteau thing and connect people to the majesty of ocean life and the tragedy of unnecessary harm done through thoughless or reckless ocean abuse.
Posted by: Mark Powell | August 13, 2007 12:14 PM
I agree wholeheartedly with Mark. Taking a page from Richard Louv's great book "Last Child in the Woods", we should aim to "leave no child onshore", or perhaps leave no child inland. The slogan could use crafting but you get the point.
The list of ten solutions here is great -- much food for thought -- and action.
Posted by: Emmett Duffy | August 14, 2007 8:21 PM
This is wonderful! It would also be great to get the 10 things that each individual can do. I'd love to pass on that to my friends who need the easy steps they can take in their lives to help with the situation.
Posted by: Karen.b@sterlingbrands.com | August 21, 2007 2:49 PM