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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.
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
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Category: Losing Track
Posted on: November 28, 2007 8:08 AM, by Jennifer L. Jacquet
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 off performing. Could the eBook jeopardize the writer's livelihood? Here are some other pros and cons of eBooks summarized from the comments on last week's Kindle post.
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I'm not an author, just a reader, but I hate eBooks with a seething subcutaneous volcano of rage, and will only use them either under extreme duress, or if obtained illegally and unlocked. I hate them, and I hate Adobe, and I hate every other company that inflicts the shambling nightmare known as "DRM" on the hapless public.
There is certainly a reason for this near-pathological rage on my part, but I don't want to clutter up your blog with a long-winded rant about trying to get and maintain access to about £400 of material which I had bought and paid for. Just take it from me, if I ever get within arms reach of anyone involved in creating DRM, then there will be bloodshed. Grisly, painful, horrible, extraordinary bloodshed. And I will be glad. Bastards.
Posted by: Luna_the_cat | November 28, 2007 12:33 PM
Bold words! I love you passionate defense of paper but I fear it's headed toward eBooks regardless of the bloodshed...
Posted by: Jennifer L. Jacquet | November 29, 2007 8:25 AM
Well, people have been predicting the imminent demise of books for decades. I rank it right up there with those "paperless offices" that computers will bring us. [she says, regarding the humungous stacks of sheets of dead tree which inundate her office.]
There are too many people who appreciate reading material which doesn't require electricity and which can survive (albeit in a somewhat wrinkly form) being dropped in the bath.
Posted by: Luna_the_cat | November 29, 2007 8:45 AM