Category Archives: News
Third REPICORE PhD student successfully defends his thesis
Documenting the REPICORE feedback trip
During the recent feedback trip of the REPICORE team, we were accompanied by photographer Tom Vierus, who was documenting our travels and meetings. Tom will use his beautiful imagery and video clips to produce a short documentary on our efforts to feed back project outcomes to stakeholders in the three …
Project feedback in Papua New Guinea
After several months of the team sitting in Germany analysing data and writing up our scientific publications and theses, it was finally time to bring back our findings to various stakeholders in the Pacific region where the work was conducted. This trip would comprise a range of different meetings, including …
Back to where results belong
REPICORE at the 10th Indo-Pacific Fish Conference
From 2-6 October, members of the REPICORE team had the opportunity to present their work at the 10th Indo-Pacific Fish Conference, which was organized this year in Papeete/Tahiti, the capital of French Polynesia, by the French CRIOBE. The conference, the largest of its kind, brought together nearly 500 participants from …
July – month of conferences
Over the past month Janne attended three conferences and seminars and presented findings from her research at each of them. From 5-7 July the MARE conference ‘People & the Sea IX: Dealing with Maritime Mobilities’ took place at the University of Amsterdam (NL). Organized by the Centre for Maritime Research …
Multiple Drivers of Local (Non-) Compliance in Community-Based Marine Resource Management: Case Studies from the South Pacific
Compliance is key to successful resource management. But what influences compliance behavior with marine resource management in fishing communities in the South Pacific? The social, political and economic contexts are decisive. Our study reveals multiple drivers for non-compliance related to perceptions of limited legitimacy of rules and rule-makers, market …
Coral bleaching in the Aitutaki Lagoon 2016/2017
By Natalie Prinz. Even though the southern Cook Islands were spared from severe coral bleaching in the recent large-scale global bleaching event, the El Niño in 2015/16, we experienced bleaching this year in the Aitutaki Lagoon. In the Aitutaki Lagoon the first bleached corals have been observed as early …