The 16th International Coral Reef Symposium (#ICRS2026) brought together over 2,000 coral reef scientists, managers and practitioners from more than 90 countries in Auckland, Aotearoa New Zealand, from 19–24 July 2026. Across that week, people from SOCPacific2R — our Fijian, French and German teams, our advisory group and our student interns — showed up in […]
In February 2026, three students began an internship as part of SOCPacific2R, with the aim of exploring the local significance of specific reef passages in New Caledonia. Vicky Simraï and Amandine Aiglehoux, who are finishing their Master’s degree at the University of New Caledonia, focus their research on the meanings, values, and practices associated with […]
Our workshop on reef passages held in Nouméa on the 16th of February 2026 gave us the opportunity to meet the president of the New Caledonia hub of the French Federation of Underwater Studies and Sports (FFESSM-NC), Amandine Aupetit, who – to our fortune – instantly became very interested and motivated by the project, and […]
The SOCPacific2R research project kicked off in New Caledonia with a workshop in Nouméa on the 16th of February and a workshop in Koné on the 3rd of March, bringing together 21 stakeholders from the South Province and 24 stakeholders from the North Province, respectively, with each event gathering customary representatives, institutional representatives, civil society […]
It’s a wrap! The project’s four USP students – Devavrat Bishwa, Matina Kaitapu, Sarah-Fina Manulevu, Watesoni Nata – spent three weeks (7-28 February 2026) at the IRD Centre in Nouméa for a writing retreat, bringing to a close the research internship with SOCPacific2R which they had started in September 2025. Their main objective: to share […]
The four USP students in the SOCPacific2R project – Dev, Matina, Sarah-Fina and Watesoni – have just published their second interactive StoryMap on reef passages around Ovalau, Fiji, showcasing their ongoing research on these ecological and cultural keystone places. Over recent months, they have explored how reef passages connect land and sea, and why they […]
Reporting back to stakeholders with what they requested is an important step to co-creation of knowledge for resource management. Upon request from the knowledge holders of Ovalau Island in Fiji, our SOCPacific2R team delivered co-created data after each fieldwork period. Knowledge shared by the people from Vatukalo and Tokou villages, students from three schools and […]
As part of her first year of Master’s in Humanities at the University of New Caledonia (UNC), Amandine Aiglehoux-Bornet completed an eight-week internship at IRD in Nouméa, between May and July 2025. She worked on New Caledonian children’s views of the land-sea continuum and impacts of climate change. She was particularly interested in SOCPacific2R’s transdisciplinary […]
From the 22nd of September until the 11th of October 2025, SOCPacific2R’s four interns from USP spent three weeks on Ovalau with support from a few members of the research team. On Ovalau, we partnered with communities in Vatukalo Village, Levuka Town, and Tokou Village, working together on local practices and initiatives related to reefs […]
The Pacific Community (SPC) through the Pacific Community Centre for Ocean Science (PCCOS), the Office of the Pacific Ocean Commissioner (OPOC) and the Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment (SPREP) convened Pacific Ocean stakeholders at the Pacific Islands Ocean Conference in Honiara (Solomon Islands) from 29th September to 3rd October, 2025. The conference was founded […]
