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 […]
Immediately after the TIDES summer school, four USP students spent a week in Nouméa to begin a six-month internship at IRD as part of the SOCPacific2R project: Devavrat Bishwa, Matina Kaitapu, Sarah-Fina Manulevu and Watesoni Nata. During that week (15th-19th of September 2025), Auréa Pottier also led a week-long training on GIS (Geographic Information Systems) […]
Between the 8th and the 12th of September 2025, with support from Ika Bula Consultants, the SOCPacific2R team organized a summer school aiming to provide a “Training in InterDisciplinary and Ethnoecological Studies of reef passages” (TIDES). Participants included not only ten students from The University of the South Pacific (USP), but also three from New […]
July has been an important month for SOCPacific2R, marked by the start of Salanieta Kitolelei’s three-year postdoc at the Leibniz Centre for Tropical Marine Research (ZMT) in Bremen. Sala’s presence in Germany, before she dives into research on reef passages in Fiji, was the opportunity to organise the visit of Elodie and Auréa from Montpellier […]
Just in time for the third United Nations Ocean Conference (UNOC-3), SOCPacific2R has been endorsed as a “Decade Action”: a project forming part of the UN Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development 2021-2030, attached to the Decade Programme “No. 69. Cultural Heritage Framework Programme (CHFP)”. This is great news and an exciting way forward for […]
On the 9th of April 2025, Elodie proposed and led a drawing workshop for 15 children at the Alliance française de Suva (AFS), with support from Courtney from Bush Bunny Crafts. The children each produced a drawing in response to one of these questions developed by school-children in New Caledonia the previous month: 1- Draw […]
In the past few weeks, a class of twenty CM2 / Year 5 pupils from the Marie Havet primary school in Nouméa and their teacher, Audrey Mazeron, have become co-researchers at the crossroads of three research projects: SOCPacific2R, MaHeWa on marine heatwaves, and CLIPSSA on small-scale farmers’ adaptation to climate change. In dialogue with researchers […]
On the 24th of February 2025, 12 students from USP in Fiji took part in the first methodological training workshop provided by the SOCPacific2R team. On the program, various methodological perspectives and tips, including a presentation on why interdisciplinarity matters and what it entails (by Annette Breckwoldt and Salanieta Kitolelei), what the different types of […]
On the 17th of December 2024, Juliette Kon Kam King defended the Ph.D. thesis Trac(k)ing Fishe(r)s in the South Pacific: Surveillances in and of a More-than-Human Ocean that she started as part of the SOCPacific research project in 2018 and submitted in October 2024. The defence took place in Montpellier at the University Paul Valéry […]
