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 […]
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 […]
