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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
March 31, 2008
Category: Communicating
Jason Ensler, Hollywood director and co-founder of the Shifting Baselines Ocean Media Project, released a short film he made on living locally in a digital age. The film spotlights NPR correspondent and now goat-herder Doug Fine and is a segue...
Posted by Jennifer L. Jacquet at 5:15 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Solutions
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change predicts that 25-30% of plant species will be extinct or endangered in the next century. Any way you cut it - that is a very bad thing. Many of those plant species will be...
Posted by Josh Donlan at 5:00 AM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
March 30, 2008
Category: Losing Track
Spring is in the air. And birds are starting to show up in America and elsewhere from their wintering grounds, gearing up to sing their little hearts out. Unfortunately, many of us are contributing to the decline of those birds...
Posted by Josh Donlan at 8:47 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
March 28, 2008
Category: Ocean View
A chain of undersea volcanoes Rumbled and then rose Erupted on the equator And thousands of years later We call the islands Galapagos. Birds flew in and built their nests On shores sea lions came to rest Reptiles by way...
Posted by Jennifer L. Jacquet at 9:38 AM • 6 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
March 27, 2008
Category: What the...?
There are 19 species of seabirds that spend a portion of their lives in the Galapagos Islands and one seems a very unlikely resident. The Galapagos penguin, Speniscus mendiculus, is the only penguin to live as far north as the...
Posted by Jennifer L. Jacquet at 9:59 AM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Fishing Culture
Call them Pavlov's fish: Scientists are testing a plan to train fish to catch themselves by swimming into a net when they hear a tone that signals feeding time. If it works, the system could eventually allow black sea bass...
Posted by Jennifer L. Jacquet at 7:20 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
March 26, 2008
Category: Fishing Culture
The Pew Environment Group and the Conserve Our Ocean Legacy Campaign just launched the new online game Ocean Survivor. It is designed to draw attention to the perils of overfishing and provide people with an opportunity to sign a petition...
Posted by Josh Donlan at 10:22 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
March 25, 2008
Category: Rewilding
Thanks to everyone who participated in the short survey - all 286 of you. Below shows the percentage of folks that were in favor of reintroducing our case studies under a scientific framework. Interesting indeed, although one person made the...
Posted by Josh Donlan at 9:05 AM • 9 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
March 24, 2008
Category: Communicating
As the folks behind Science Debate 2008 continue to push for a broader voice for the science world, David Sloan Wilson is probing into a similar issue with his column on the Huffington Post. He's asking whether the HuffPost should...
Posted by Jennifer L. Jacquet at 11:16 AM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: What the...?
I should have added this one to the Galapagos drama that has occurred over the past year: this albino whale shark was spotted last September off the northern island of Darwin. Seeing is believing. Check it out:...
Posted by Jennifer L. Jacquet at 11:04 AM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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