The second PacMAN scientific advisory board (SAB) meeting took place on the 20th of October 2022 as a virtual meeting. The report on what was discussed during the meeting is available here. Five scientific advisory board members joined in-person, while the remaining members were given a chance to comment on Read more…
The PacMAN local advisory board meeting was held at USP campus on the 10 November 2022 in Suva, Fiji. The report of the meeting is now available. The meeting brought together 18 representatives of 8 different local stakeholder institutions working in the marine field of Fiji. The purpose of the Read more…
The PacMAN scientific course was a hybrid course with an initial introduction to the course topics held online on the OTGA platform. The on-site phase of the course lasted one week at the USP IAS campus in Suva Fiji. In total there were 21 course participants from 7 different stakeholder Read more…
The PacMAN project manager Joape Ginigini took part in an invasive species workshop in Tahiti titled Marine Biosecurity Research And Management For French Polynesia And The South Pacific Region. His excellency the President of French Polynesia Edouard Fritch (pictured in the center holding a blue file) opened the workshop. The overall objectives of the Read more…
The first PacMAN scientific training course is announced. This hybrid course containing both online and on-site training will develop the capacity of local stakeholders in Fiji in marine biosecurity and the use of molecular methods in monitoring marine biodiversity. The course will be hosted on the Ocean Teacher Global Academy Read more…
The PacMAN project was presented at the GEF 6 Invasive Alien Species consultations on the IAS Policy Review and the National Invasive Species Framework and Strategic Plan (NISFSAP) validations at the Outrigger Resort from the 12th to 13th of May. Mr. Joape Ginigini (Project Manager) highlighted the project’s history, design Read more…
The work for the trial phase of PacMAN is well on its way, as detailed in the PacMAN monitoring plan. With multiple field campaigns already completed and samples processed by morphological sorting and for molecular work, the PacMAN team is collecting invaluable data on marine biodiversity at the Suva harbour. Read more…
The developments of PacMAN were presented at the 22nd International Conference on Aquatic Invasive Species (ICAIS), in Oostende, Belgium on the 19th of April 2022, in the session regarding genetic tools for monitoring. A total of about 400 people were following this conference with approximately 200 at site and 200 on-line Read more…
The first field sampling campaign of PacMAN has been successfully completed. Settlement plates were replaced, plankton and water samples collected and environmental parameters recorded. Three settlement plates from each site were used for sorting and collecting specimens for genetic vouchering. These initial sampling campaigns will help in refining the sampling Read more…
As an initiation of PacMAN monitoring settlement plates have been deployed to four sites in the Suva harbour. Each site has three sets of three settlement plates at different depths along the water column depending on the total water depth and tides. Along with deployments, sampling for plankton, water and Read more…