Bugmeal: An Update
An interview with Dr. D'Abramo, the scientist responsible for looking at viability of insectmeal to replace bugmeal in farmed fish production.Posted on May 7, 2008 8:05 AM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Shifting Baselines
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The Shifting Baselines Blog
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.
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New Projects & Publications
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
Recent Posts
- Invasive Species in Ballast Water? Nuke 'Em.
- First Ever Observation of a Right Whale Birth!
- Goodbye Salmon, Hello Prawns
- Bugmeal: An Update
- Paul Farmer Is The Man
- More Amorous Animals
- Seal Attempts Intercourse with Penguin
- Happy Birthday to Daniel Pauly
- The Forgotten Mollusk
- Orangutan Learning to Fish
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Bugmeal: An Update
An interview with Dr. D'Abramo, the scientist responsible for looking at viability of insectmeal to replace bugmeal in farmed fish production.Posted on May 7, 2008 8:05 AM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Seal Attempts Intercourse with Penguin
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...Posted on May 3, 2008 7:49 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
New Sponge Discovered in Bering Sea
Greenpeace isn't only busy busting up the Brussels Seafood Expo. They also explore the world's deepest underwater canyons in search of new life. And they found some! The newly discovered sponge from Alaska's Pribilof Canyon will be named Aaptos kanuux....Posted on April 29, 2008 5:51 AM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Adrift in a Sea of Plastics (for 6 weeks to Hawaii!)
How bad is the situation with plastics in the ocean? Bad enough that the staff of the Algalita Marine Research Foundation are building "Junkraft," a raft made of 20,000 discarded plastic bottles for sailing the 2100 miles from California to...Posted on April 28, 2008 12:10 AM • 7 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Lifespans Shorten and Baselines Shift
I always say that the shifting baselines syndrome, the tendency for each new generation to accept a degraded environment as normal/natural, is partially a result of the short human lifespan. If we would only live 1000 years, we would do...Posted on April 22, 2008 8:53 AM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Noisy Fish
Retirees in Florida are rockin' to the beat of a different drum...and they're not too thrilled about it. Black drum mating calls travel at a low enough frequency and long enough wavelength to carry through sea walls, into the ground...Posted on April 8, 2008 9:44 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Wolves Protecting Pronghorn
A new study published this month in the journal Ecology elucidates an ecological dance between wolves, coyotes, and pronghorn. Wildlife Conservation Society ecologist Kim Berger and colleagues analyzed wolf distribution data from the Yellowstone Ecosystem to evaluate the whether the...Posted on April 7, 2008 1:11 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Harmful Algae Likes It Hot, Hot
This is the title of a new song out from Chris Brown. Just kidding. But it is the topic of an article in Science this week. Harmful algae blooms, as the name suggests, are harmful. They can kill fish and...Posted on April 7, 2008 10:35 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Pavlov's...Fish?
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 on March 27, 2008 7:20 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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