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News 2011

Operation Beach Clean: Ethnographic fieldwork, hands-on

In the first week of October, and after one year of ethnographic fieldwork, my research stay in the Bay of Plenty had almost come to its scheduled end. I had arranged a number of farewell meetings and last interview appointments with contacts from BOP Coast Care, BOP Regional Council, the Port of Tauranga, Te Runanga O Ngai Te Rangi Iwi Trust and the Matakana Island Community Nursery. Little did I know that these people would only days later find themselves in the middle of escalating events when the containership MV Rena hit the Astrolabe reef out of Tauranga Harbour early on October 5th 2011.
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Environment Court Hearings On The Proposed Dredging Of The Port of Tauranga, New Zealand Were An Eye-Opener For INTERCOAST PhD Student Lisa Marquardt

The timing of my research stay in New Zealand turned out to be very well chosen as it allowed me to attend hearings at the Environment Court regarding one of the core case studies of my research: the proposed dredging activities at the Port of Tauranga to deepen and widen its shipping channels in order to be able to cater for container vessels with draughts of up to 14.5 m.
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INTERCOAST Coast Care Event

On June 25th 2011 Prof Chris Battershill and eight Intercoast students from both Waikato and Bremen Universities came out to the Western Bay of Plenty to join a community planting day in Otāmarākau.
Further story can be read here.

Bremen University student enjoying Te Reo studies

Taking beginner courses in Te Reo Māori has been “a big help” for University of Bremen doctoral student Friederike Gesing as she researches coastal erosion in Bay of Plenty communities. Ms Gesing is spending 12 months in New Zealand investigating, from an anthropological perspective, specific communities which are working to mitigate the effects of coastal erosion to their beaches and property.
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An Internship at the Western and Central Pacific Fisheries Commission in Micronesia Gave PhD Student Ingo Unterweger Valuable Practical Experience for His Thesis Research

More than half of the principal market tuna species are caught in the Western and Central Pacific Ocean (WCPO). The central body for the management of tuna fisheries in the WCPO is the Western and Central Pacific Fisheries Commission (WCPFC). Established in 2004, the WCPFC is a comparatively young, progressive, and successful organization. The developing Pacific Island States are well represented within the Commission, which is required to adopt precautionary measures for the sustainable management of tuna species. At present, only one of the several tuna and tuna-like species is currently fished beyond sustainable limits.
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Educational activities for Intercoast PhDs during the Postdocs visit to the University of Waikato

As a part of keeping the multi-disciplinary scientific discussions among the Intercoast PhD students, the two Postdocs Dr. Ella Meilianda and Dr. Silja Klepp were entitled to do a research stay at the University of Waikato for a month. This was done to organise the educational activities for all the PhD students who are currently staying at the University of Waikato, New Zealand, for their research. In May 2011 the Postdocs organized two meetings for all the PhD students while actively furthering their own research. The meetings were set up according to the IC educational tradition; IC Learn & Lunch on the 4th of May and IC Colloquium on the 11th of May.
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