Our team

SOCPacific2R is based on a partnership between The University of the South Pacific (USP) in Fiji, the French National Research Institute for Sustainable Research (IRD) in France and New Caledonia, and the Leibniz Centre for Tropical Marine Research (ZMT) in Germany.

It therefore relies on the joint work of three crews:

Kelly Brown
USP

Jasha Dehm
USP

Simon Harding
Marine Consultant

Andreas Kopf
USP

Isoa Korovulavula
USP

Cherie Morris
USP

Brian Stockwell
USP

Stéphanie M. Carrière
IRD, UMR SENS, Montpellier
Ethnobiologist

Chantal Crenn
UPVM, UMR SENS, Montpellier
Anthropologist

Pierre-Yves Le Meur
IRD, UMR SENS, Noumea
Socio-Anthropologist

Simonne Pauwels
Retired researcher at CNRS
Anthropologist

Dominique Pelletier
Ifremer, UMR DECOD, Lorient
Ecologist

Auréa Pottier
IRD, UMR SENS, Montpellier
Expert in Geospatial analysis

Estienne Rodary
IRD, UMR SENS, Montpellier
Geographer

Catherine Sabinot
IRD, UMR ESPACE-DEV, Noumea
Anthropologist

Sebastian Ferse
ZMT

Marion Glaser
ZMT

Salanieta Kitolelei
ZMT

Rebecca Lahl
ZMT

Nils Moosdorf
ZMT

Alexandra Nozik
ZMT

Arno Pascht
LMU

Patrick Christie
University of Washington, School of Marine and Environmental Affairs & Jackson School of International Studies, Lowell A. and Frankie L. Wakefield Endowed Professor in Marine Policy

SOCPacific2R will also involve many students and be supported by a scientific advisory board… More soon!