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
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Category: Seafood
Posted on: February 3, 2008 9:32 AM, by Jennifer L. Jacquet
Lent is the biggest time of year for seafood sales (more on that soon) but, according to the industry supported news source IntraFish, the Superbowl unofficially launches the seafood selling season. Supermarket retailers everywhere offered plenty of seafood platters and party specials for Americans watching the big game.
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I hadn't really considered it before, but now that you mention it, there seems to be more seafood around at Superbowl Sunday parties lately then when we first started having the parties 12 years ago. This past Sunday we had not only the typical shrimp ring that shows itself at most parties, but guests also brought sushi, a cheesy seafood dip, and smoked salmon with cream cheese and crackers. There were far more seafood selections than chicken or beef dishes.
Posted by: Megan | February 5, 2008 12:11 PM