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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.
November 2008 Jennifer Jacquet is lead author of the study In hot soup: sharks captured in Ecuador's waters published in Environmental Sciences.
November 27, 2008: Jennifer Jacquet gives the talk "Why Consumers Alone Can't Save Our Fish" at 1pm at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, B.C.
August 2008: Josh Donlan is co-author on a new paper titled Integrating invasive mammal eradications and biodiversity offsets for fisheries bycatch: conservation opportunities and challenges for seabirds and sea turtles published in Biological Invasions.
August 2008: Jennifer Jacquet is co-author on a new paper titled Funding Priorities: Big Barriers to Small-Scale Fisheries published in Conservation Biology.
August 2008: Josh Donlan is an author on a new paper in Journal of Applied Ecology titled Diversity, invasive species, and extinctions in insular ecosystems.
July 26, 2008: Randy Olson's film Sizzle premieres on the East Coast at the Woods Hole Film Festival in MA.
July 24, 2008: Josh Donlan gives a talk on biodiversity offsets to The Alcoa Foundation and the Alcao Intalco Aluminum Plant in Bellingham, Washington.
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
September 28, 2007
Category: Losing Track
Dr. Randy Olson brought a couple very interesting articles on China to my attention this morning. Both have to do with climate and each have a different element of Shifting Baselines. The first, Doha and Dalian, by the New York...
Posted by Jennifer L. Jacquet at 10:34 AM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
September 27, 2007
Category: Seafood
This week, Canadian wildlife officials caught three men smuggling large amounts of Queen conch shellfish, an endangered species, before exporting some of it to the U.S. The smugglers imported an estimated 263,958 pounds (!) of conches, with a value of...
Posted by Jennifer L. Jacquet at 6:56 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
September 26, 2007
Category: Communicating
Anyone out there wondering what Randy Olson, Head Dodo was up to in 1991? Before his debut on Showtime, Dr. Olson was making rock videos about barnacles. Sheril Kirshenbaurm at the Intersection recently persuaded Randy to put his vintage...
Posted by Jennifer L. Jacquet at 10:21 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Seafood
The contentious certification of New Zealand hoki by the Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) just got a little more dubious. Yesterday, according to news from Intrafish, New Zealand cut its hoki catch quota 10% from 101,040 metric tons to 91,040 metric...
Posted by Jennifer L. Jacquet at 12:49 AM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
September 25, 2007
Category: Ocean Politics
Posted by Jack Sterne, jack@oceanchampions.org For those of us who follow the world of ocean politics (and politics generally), Leon Panetta is the closest thing we have to a rock star. Panetta served as the chairman of the Pew Oceans...
Posted by Jennifer L. Jacquet at 9:34 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
September 24, 2007
Category: Communicating
When I was a student at USC Cinema School in the mid-90's I had a discussion with the Dean, Elizabeth Daly, in which she told me her theory of learning film. She said that film is a language which virtually...
Posted by Jennifer L. Jacquet at 12:16 AM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
September 23, 2007
Category: New Research
A federal report shows that loggerhead sea turtle populations, listed as 'threatened' under the Endangered Species Act, are decreasing. The news is particularly disappointing because the last report showed that from 1989-1998, the number of nesting sites had increased about...
Posted by Jennifer L. Jacquet at 8:38 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
September 21, 2007
Category: Ocean Politics
The Canadian government has decided to cut spending on Environment Canada programs that address climate change by 80 percent. This budget cut comes in spite of "...poll after poll show[ing] environment and climate change are top of the list of...
Posted by Jennifer L. Jacquet at 2:54 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
September 20, 2007
Category: Seafood
Yesterday, the E.U. announced its decision to close the bluefin tuna fishery in the Mediterranean (that once vibrant, now empty) Sea for the remainder of the year. The decision is not particularly surprising because the fishers had already reached their...
Posted by Jennifer L. Jacquet at 9:04 AM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
September 19, 2007
Category: Losing Track
An estimated 7,000 languages are spoken around the world today. In 14 days, there will be an estimated 6,999. One language goes extinct about every two weeks, which is a faster rate of exinction those for plants, birds, fish, and...
Posted by Jennifer L. Jacquet at 12:18 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
