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
January 31, 2008
Category: What the...?
Fifty-three sea lions were slaughtered in the Galapagos Islands. Thirteen pups, 25 youngsters, nine males and six females were all found with their skulls bashed in on Pinta Island. The New York Times questioned this week whether tourism is compatible...
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January 30, 2008
Category: Seafood
When it comes to tuna, it's not all about us and our mercury levels, is it?
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January 29, 2008
Category: Ocean Politics
Posted by Jack Sterne, jack@oceanchampions.org So my question to those of you out there in science blog land is this: does politics matter to you? One of the best fish advocates in Congress could go down (If you don't believe...
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January 27, 2008
Category: Losing Track
Can you stay awake for a book? Or are books going extinct along with the American attention span? According to Ursula Le Guin (notable sci-fi and fantasy author now age 78) in February's issue of Harper's, the Associated Press ran...
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January 25, 2008
Category: Losing Track
Good news! Gasoline is back below $3 a gallon. What a bargain. Everyone can stop worrying about the rising price of gasoline. Okay, let me date myself in a big way. The summer of my senior year of high school...
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Category: Seafood
Bugmeal to replace fishmeal? We know it's wasteful to grind up one-third of our wild caught fish into fishmeal to feed it to pigs, chickens, and fish. But hope for our tiny fish might lie in an unlikely source: bugs....
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January 24, 2008
Category: Ocean Politics
Posted by Jack Sterne, jack@oceanchampions.org Lots of interesting developments in the Gilchrest race this week. The Politico has this story about the massive amount of direct mail being directed at Gilchrest by hard-core anti-environmentalist Andy Harris. Gilchrest's other primary primary...
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January 23, 2008
Category: Seafood
The New York Times' Marian Burros has an article today on high mercury levels in tuna sushi: Recent laboratory tests found so much mercury in tuna sushi from 20 Manhattan stores and restaurants that at most of them, a regular...
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January 22, 2008
Category: What the...?
I got a tip on a Discovery show called Dirty Jobs that aired tonight and explored the slimy hagfishery off the coast of Maine. I was interested to see it but (I'll expose a little of my technological incompetence) was...
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Category: Ocean Politics
A new campaign out from WWF that calls unsustainable fish "stinky" has caused some controversy among the seafood industry. Blogfish has more on the stink the campaign caused. Unfortunately, we can no longer view the video but I can't imagine...
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