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📣Lowest Tide of the Year 🌊The lowest astronomical tide of 2023 will be on 3rd August, 2023. #lowesttideoftheyear #TeamFiji

📚Enrich your knowledge with our NEW and FREE ONLINE COURSE on #SDG14LifeBelowWater! ​📌What You'll Learn: Intro 2 #SDGs, SDG14 and its targets/indicators. Introduce key actors in SDG14 ocean governance....and more! #RegisterNow⬇️: surveymonkey.com/r/lifebelowater youtube.com/watch?v=_HdkTz…

📢Exciting News! We are thrilled to kick off the Hybrid Inception Workshop for the "Safeguarding Nesting Populations of Sea Turtles in Fiji" project! Led by @wwf, this crucial event aims to protect nesting & foraging hawksbill & green sea 🐢 in 🇫🇯

Join our students and staff who will be part of the Forum Economic Ministers Meeting Public Seminar at The University of the South Pacific, Japan ICT Centre, this evening at 6pm. Pacific Islands Forum #TeamUSP

🌊Dive into the Deep: Exploring Octopuses in the South-West Pacific. Join the conversation at 11 am this Friday and become part of the movement towards responsible stewardship of our marine treasures #PEUMP #OctopusReview #SustainableSeas #culturalconnections

#HappeningNow The inaugural Pacific Islands Conference on Ocean Science and Ocean Management begins today in Nadi, Fiji. #SeaofIslands #OceanKnowledge

USP scholar Salanieta Kitolelei: "Balance is needed between science and traditonal knowledge in managing our oceans. Nature has spoken to Pacific peoples for centuries through flowers and fruiting of trees, and our fishing calendar has revolved around agriculture activities."(1)

We're proud of our alumni and current research students that participated at the first #PICOSOM this week! #SeaOfIslands #OceanKnowledge

Raijeli Natadra & Moses Mataika are fisheries officials currently on secondment with the Pacific Community in Noumea. They are grateful for the opportunity to work alongside scientists and researchers and hope to return to their division with improved fisheries knowledge.

We are super proud of you both! Keep up the awesome work.

Upcoming 🐢 event! It's a hybrid event, you can register here: forms.gle/GAudeBHG4gNFhx… Take note of the timezone 🕙 Fiji participants: Saturday 7th October, 2023 (6am-2pm).

Day 1 ✅ Sea Turtle Workshop 2023, convened by Ika Bula Consultants in collaboration with IUCN/SSC Marine Turtle Specialist Group- Oceania, Discipline of Marine Studies The University of the South Pacific, Ministry of Fisheries, Fiji and colleagues in the Oceania region.

We were happy to support the 2023 Sea Turtle Workshop on campus! It was a great two days of scientific and management updates from the Oceania region.

Missed out on the 2023 #seaturtle Oceania workshop? Here's an awesome summary thread, speaker by speaker, from Shritika Prakash:

Job Ad: Research Assistant needed in #Tuvalu to participate in an Asia Pacific Network (APN)-funded project. The full job description is available here: drive.google.com/file/d/1So0G95… #fisheries #pollution #traditionalknowledge #management #research #project #Pacific

#fieldwork was fantastic this month - it is a privilege to work with these brilliant young academics from our Marine Studies @ USP program The University of the South Pacific. Each month we document the reef community at 4 sites in #Fiji to track changes in benthic cyanobacterial mats. #WomenInScience

Makuluva Island cleanup happening this Saturday!

We celebrated #WorldWetlandsDay on 2nd Feb and before the month ends, we would like to highlight an occupant of Fiji's wetlands - the Soga or Fiji Sago Palm (Metroxylon vitiense), an endemic and endangered Fijian palm. 1/5

Pod of humpback whales 🐋 along the coral coast over the weekend 🇫🇯 These majestic creatures travel thousands of miles from the cold Antarctic to the warm South Pacific to breed and give birth. Breathtaking experience 🤙🏾🇫🇯