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
May 12, 2008
On any given day, the world's fleet of ships are carrying billions of tons of ballast water with up to 7,000 different invasive species as stowaways. About one in every ten of these is likely to be a problem if...
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May 9, 2008
Category: Ocean View
Check it out! A researcher at the New England Aquarium was the first human known to witness a right whale birth. Read all about her experience and some of the conservation efforts to save this endangered species here....
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Category: Losing Track
Fishermen off of Oregon's coast could go broke sitting, or could go broke working, which is why they're trading in their salmon fishing gear and began outfitting their boats for prawns. This is a classic case of overfishing (as well...
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May 7, 2008
Category: New Research
An interview with Dr. D'Abramo, the scientist responsible for looking at viability of insectmeal to replace bugmeal in farmed fish production.
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May 5, 2008
Category: Solutions
That's all there is to it. Check out the 60 Minutes profile on him that aired last night:...
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Category: What the...?
If the seal and penguin weren't enough, there is another sexually curious story from the aquatic environment. According to a colleague, this story out of Japan details a male frog's obsession with a female char, seen swimming together for over...
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May 3, 2008
What a rogue. An Antarctic fur seal was caught in the act trying to have sex with a king penguin. The incident wasn't too unlike a Paris Hilton escapade--the act lasted for 45 minutes, was caught on camera, and then...
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May 2, 2008
Category: Ocean View
Where would shifting baselines be without Daniel Pauly? It'd be something altogether different, since he is the one who coined the term back in 1995. Today he turned 62 and we here at the Fisheries Centre celebrated. And yes, Rick,...
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May 1, 2008
Category: Losing Track
For a baseline to shift, there must be an element of amnesia. To be forgotten, you must first be acknowledged as existing. What of the unlucky mollusks then? Few people know much about these slimy, slow movers. A new article...
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Category: What the...?
There is evidence of hominids collecting seafood for at least 164,000 years. And then there is evidence (fishing spears found during a dig in the Congo) to suggest that humans began fishing at least 90,000 years ago. This week, there...
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