355. Cartoon and Supplemental Documents for "First Job as Objective Notetaker for Fisheries Stakeholder Meetings"

Who's Fishing Who? Cartoon Vic made as a Pleasant Start for her Notetaker Position for Fisheries Stakeholders. Vic likes to dream about other organism's perception of humans, obviously! Or "putting humans back into the ecosystem" type of jokes. I was going to venture into a BEERS bash on the Marine Science deck and I felt like that since I did not accomplish much during the week, the least I can do for Halloween is show up with a few copies of a cartoon to life people's spirits up. I gave my friend Becca a cartoon and I gave a copy of the cartoon to Kyle, my housematey, who just went 30 earth-orbits-around-the-sun on Halloween. It's called a Non-Traditional Birthday Card!

Who's Fishing Who? Gray Version. A successful experiment in "Color Framing."

In the Name of Cuteness! Kelp Forest Representation by http://www.bluebison.net!

Page 1 of Vic's Adjusted Resume for the Notetaker Position in the Fisheries Stakeholder Meetings during this upcoming year. PDF file below.

Page 2 of Vic's Adjusted Resume for the Notetaker Position in the Fisheries Stakeholder Meetings during this upcoming year. PDF file below.

Page 3 of Vic's Adjusted Resume for the Notetaker Position in the Fisheries Stakeholder Meetings during this upcoming year. PDF file for the Resume/Statement of Purpose. Current sketch statement of purpose was creamed by a professor who claims that psychology and the environment cannot be connected... though environmental problems are interdisciplinary. I have very mixed feelings but I have an academic community from various disciplines and departments who are supportive and very open to my ideas of fusing artistic "cognitive mapping" techniques into stakeholder analysis. I suppose support is wonderful when you have it in the masses, even though there may exist a few naysayers to everything you do: http://stokastika2.googlepages.com/4vminnichresumesopFICMLPA.pdf.

Vic's First Attempt at a Statement of Purpose. Wrote before the first sushi meeting with Drs. Richards, Culver, and Diane Pleschner Steele (never turned in, can disregard) http://stokastika2.googlepages.com/5.victoriaminnichsop.pdf.

Overview of the Grant Proposal to the Resources Legacy Fund Foundation, which I believe is associated with Hewlett Packard and a couple of other companies. Teamed up with California Government with resources management.
http://stokastika2.googlepages.com/6.fisheriestakeholdersmeetings.pdf.

Sometimes you look at such a proposal and you think "What a great idea!" But the other thought that comes to mind is that I wished I could rewind the clock and have a conversation with Honorable Theodore Roosevelt, and ask him to swing his big stick a few more times, and parcel up and save some ocean while you're at this whole National-Parking-of-the-West business. You didn't need 1000 scientists crawling all over Yosemite like leaf cutter ants in a gopher mound just to convince the President to make this Initial Child's Visual Aesthetic as a National Park! Sometimes first impressions and visualized instinct can make good decisions. And sometimes... it won't.

The complexity of the environmental problem is ultimately determined by the number of humans who are impacted (and still alive) and the number of humans who are involved It's all a human perception and human-definition-of-problem issue. So then, you come up with a complex grant proposal to conduct this elaborate, dicy dance among dozens of hundreds of stakeholders to inform and appease and solve problems... that might take years to shift and implement change.

But what do you do? In an Era of Too Many Humans and Not Enough Space? What do you do? Enjoy the show, I suppose. And relish in your Plan B to Post-Human Earth. It's one of those moments where you wonder "What's the Point"?

Fisheries Recorder Contract with all the specks and Fine Print:
http://stokastika2.googlepages.com/7.FISHINGrecordercontract.pdf.

Just signed (again) and sent off through FedEx (again).

157. The Peacock and the Bower Bird, and the Presentations of the Bren Masters Group Projects, UCSB, Class of 2008

Above is a poem / song variation of the Peacok and the Bower bird. I have a series of song variations of the same theme. I was inspired to write this yesterday.

Below are some quick jots of my short-sighted experience of the Bren masters group projects.

I am experiencing a bit of mental interference here trying to finish Geo 2. I just went to presentations of Bren group projects in downtown Santa Barbara. Some swank hotel by the ocean. It is impressive how Bren is very well networked with agencies outside the university. It is also amazing how applied and practical Bren is oriented. I found out the only two people in the camera crew were Dave Panitz and Ben Botkin. I told Dave that I had my own equipment. I could have even volunteered. I don’t even know whether he even READS my emails. Geeze. I saw 1.5 fisheries talks and 1 eco-labeling Greenopia talk. Everyone practices. Everyone wore suits and ties, which kind of defeated the purpose of everything. I am wearing my usual beat-up vest and blue shorts. I feel guilty for it because “it’s the same old clothes,” but then I couldn’t return this dxm $70-vest, the most expensive piece of clothing I have, and I am going to beat the shxt out of it, and get my $70-bucks worth. The powerpoint slides were very organized and presentable, but very corporate. Everything is very formal and corporate. The presentations were “objective” but I’m just thinking… well I’m trying to do this rock crab film. Assuming that I just sat here watching this show—appropriate for these given audiences, but how am I going to take this information and make it a riot act. Science. Statistics. Models. Numbers, Mumbo-jumbo. Objective to me means unemotional. Trying to parameterize the multi-dimensionality of humanity through numbers. No emotion. Sucks. Well I guess that’s what the point is. Is science science? Or science has fallen in the habit of stamping everything with numbers and fancy verbage, and voila…. It’s objective, unemotional, and computer-dependent. Therefore it’s science. The pitfall of eco-labeling and Greentopia is that this eco-labeling caters to affluent people—particularly educated women. Maria Gordon made the point: how are we gonna get the guy on the street in the middle of the city to care about the environment? Ha! Randy Olson tactic of Sizzle. Brilliant. The pitfall of the integrated management of commercial and recreational fisheries is that the idea is brilliant—networking across fisheries with different value systems—but the question of “Where did the data come from?’ and “How was it collected?” Properties of the data set remained largely vague to me, and they were all economic models… which is all on the verge of science, science fiction, and voodoo representations of reality. Shoot me for saying that. I talked to BJ quickly and then I left in the rain. Could have stayed for hors d’oevres. Didn’t want to. Michael Hanrahan was there. Didn’t have a chance to talk to him.