Today in Barcelona, Dr. Daniel Pauly, who, among other things, is the brain behind the term 'shifting baselines', was awarded the Ramon Margelef prize in ecology.
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If you've ever complained that the kids today just don't understand how things used to be in the good old days, then you've grasped the concept of shifting baselines.
The phrase, coined by University of British Columbia's Fisheries Centre Director Dr. Daniel Pauly in 1995, refers to the way that…
The green issue of Vanity Fair is out again this year (along with a barrage of other green issues of magazines) and the Board of Directors for Oceana is featured in the Green Heroes section, including my advisor and inventor of the term 'shifting baselines' Dr. Daniel Pauly (4th from the left)!
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Two things.
1) Though it's never been considered a compliment to be called a Neanderthal, I am quite proud to learn that I might look like one. A study in Science this week analyzed ancient DNA and reveals that at least some Neanderthals had red hair and fair skin (photo credit: John Gurche).
2)…
The book The Unnatural History of the Sea by Callum Roberts, a marine ecologist at the University of York in England, is the 2007 shifting baseline story of the year. Roberts pulls together the best historical studies of fisheries, photos, and woebegone descriptions of former marine abundance. A…
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