Ministry of Marine Ressources, Cook Islands Dr Lara Ainley is a marine scientist with interests in applied science, marine resources, management and conservation. After completing a PhD in Marine Ecology in (Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia), Lara began working as Senior…
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Environmental service of Wallis and Futuna Deputy Head of the Environment Department for less than a year, I have been involved in all areas of the Environment, particularly in Wallis and Futuna. I coordinate the actions of the Biodiversity and…
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Direction de l’environnement, French Polynesia Hi, I’m Raimana, 28 years old and working for the authority of environment of French Polynesia. I studied coastal and sea management in Montpellier, France. I’ve been working for the AE of French Polynesia since…
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Ministry of Fisheries, Tonga Siolaa Malimali is a Fisheries Scientist at the Tonga Ministry of Fisheries, where he leads and coordinates the science activities within the Ministry of Fisheries in Tonga. After more than 20 years working at various at…
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Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology University, Japan PhD, Tokyo University in 1974. Prof. Emeritus of Kyoto University in 2009, Prof. of Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate School since 2019. Started coral genome scientific research around 2010. Okinawa…
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Vanuatu Fisheries Department, PMB 9045, Port Vila, Vanuatu Coral reefs are the biggest and most spectacular structures made by living organisms. Although they look permanent and indestructible, what we see is the only a thin veneer of living organisms. Vanuatu’s…
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Oliver Selmoni, Estelle Rochat, Gael Lecellier, Veronique Berteaux‐Lecellier, Stéphane Joost First published:07 March 2020 https://doi.org/10.1111/eva.12944 Abstract Coral reefs are suffering a major decline due to the environmental constraints imposed by climate change. Over the last 20 years, three major coral bleaching…
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Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes Dinard, France Antoine COLLIN is a coastal geospatial ecologist motivated by defining and modelling interactions between ecosystems with their environment. He has more than ten-year-old experience in the ecological spatial patterns and processes of the…
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Professor Madeleine van Oppen is an ecological geneticist with an interest in microbial symbioses and climate change adaptation of reef corals. Her work has been published in >200 peer reviewed papers and book chapters. Her early career focused on evolutionary…
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Dr Vaimiti Dubousquet studied the genetic diversity of giant clams and their response to thermal stress in French polynesia with an integrative approach of functionnal genomics. She is interested in resilience of coral reefs, and especially their symbiotic organisms, to…
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