Spencer Roberts

3 weeks ago | currentaffairs.org | Jennifer N. Dines |Stephen Prager |Spencer Roberts |Kyle Kulinski

Mass protests in Turkey, another student kidnapped by ICE, Trump’s war on unions, a homeless candidate for mayor of Seattle, AND MUCH MORE... You’ve probably noticed that this article is dated for yesterday, March 28. That’s because it’s an edition of the Current Affairs News Briefing, our email newsletter service.

4 weeks ago | currentaffairs.org | Spencer Roberts |Alex Skopic

Fishing sustainability is based on a pseudoscientific theory that justifies taking the most marine life for maximum profit. Three thousand feet under the sea, a mother orange roughy sheds her very first eggs above an ancient soft coral garden. She is 73 years in age. These fish are exceptionally slow to mature, but she may live for centuries—the rare black corals she swims among live for millenia.

Oct 16, 2024 | science.org | Jourdan Ewoldt |Olivia Gozel |Sebastian Quaade |Spencer Roberts

AbstractThe growth of animal aquaculture requires ever more feed. Yet, fish and crustacean farming is argued to be sustainable because wild fish use is low and has improved over time. Here, accounting for trimmings and by-products from wild fish in aquaculture feed, and using four different sources of industry-reported feed composition data, we find ratios of fish inputs to farmed outputs of 0.36 to 1.15—27 to 307% higher than a previous estimate of 0.28.

Sep 7, 2023 | news.emory.edu | Spencer Roberts

In the four-plus years that Spencer Roberts has headed the staff responsible for digital initiatives and technologies at Emory’s Pitts Theology Library, he has explored all pathways open to an academic librarian: not only does he support library staff and Candler School of Theology faculty, he also pursues his own research agenda. Previous digital scholarship projects have found him working with an array of partners, including  the David J.

Aug 14, 2023 | 1africafocus.com | Spencer Roberts

In the four-plus years that Spencer Roberts has headed the staff responsible for digital initiatives and technologies at Emory’s Pitts Theology Library, he has explored all pathways open to an academic librarian: not only does he support library staff and Candler School of Theology faculty, he also pursues his own research agenda. Previous digital scholarship projects have found him working with an array of partners, including  the David J.