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
November 30, 2007
Category: Losing Track
An excerpt from a 1933 article in the journal Nature--imagine seeing a passage like this today: In the spring of 1933, while Mr. Vincent Astor of New York was cruising among the Galapagos Islands, a specimen of this huge fish...
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Category: Communicating
Last week while I was home for U.S. Thanksgiving, I missed this event for Sounds Like Canada on CBC. David Suzuki, Canadian environmental hero, and his daughter, Sarika Cullis-Suzuki (also a student of Daniel Pauly's) spoke in front of a...
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November 29, 2007
Category: Solutions
That's the question posed by an article in today's New York Times. The answer? Probably NO, but the article explores the role of high end marketing in the environmental crisis and is worth a visit--if only just for the photos....
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Category: Seafood
Does anyone have anything that can compete with: Georgia Cannonball Jellyfish Trawl Fishery? p.s. This is an experimental mid-water trawl fishery that has recently started up off the Atlantic seaboard. We can expect (as the posts below attest) more jellyfisheries...
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November 28, 2007
Category: Losing Track
And just in case there are some of there out there who agree with the statement from Wikipedia: "There is very little reason or evidence to suppose that Jellyfish even require a collective noun." This important article, Invasion of Jellyfish...
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Category: Communicating
Last night at dinner, I asked whether a group of jellyfish was called a 'smuck' or a 'smack' to settle the debate on the blog last week. Though Wikipedia cites collective jellies as a 'smack', the three scientists I was...
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Category: Losing Track
To eBook or not to eBook? That is the question. I am particularly curious how authors feel about eBooks. Recall the singers' rebellion (revolution?) against Napster and other music sites, despite the fact that singers make most of their money...
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November 27, 2007
Category: Ocean Politics
Posted by Jack Sterne, jack@oceanchampions.org When you hear the news that Sen. Trent Lott (R-MS) is retiring from the Senate at the end of the year, you might not think that has anything to do with the oceans. But, oh...
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November 26, 2007
Category: Solutions
Would sexier oceans get a bigger budget? In 2006, the U.S. alone spent an estimated $13.3 billion on the sex and porn industry. Worldwide, it was estimated sex industry sales were $97 billion. Meanwhile, as of 1999, the entire world...
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November 23, 2007
Category: Losing Track
That's smuck, not schmuck. And it's the official term for a swarm of jellyfish, according to Jonathan in the last jellyfish post. The name was just created in 2000 (the need for a name for a swarm of jellyfish, just...
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