Geosciences, Geo-engineering and the Ocean in the Pacific Islands Region
MEETING ANNOUNCEMENTS, CIRCULARS, FORMS AND DOCUMENTS
| Date | Title | Keywords |
|---|---|---|
| Septemper 2015 | 2016 Meeting Dates | Tentative Dates |
| October 2015 |
STAR 2016 Conference Meeting Announcement | View More | |
Tentative Dates, Themes |
| December 2015 |
STAR 2016 Conference First Circular & Call for Papers | Download | |
Confirmed Dates |
| February 2016 |
CPC-NIWA-STAR Circum-Pacific Deep Sea Mining Workshop, Fiji, 4 June |Download | |
Side event, Deep Sea Mining EIA |
| February 2016 | EU-SPC Deep Sea Minerals Project, Final Project Steering Committee Meeting, 3 June |
Side event, CLOSED Meeting |
| April 2016 |
STAR 2016 Second Circular | Download | |
Accommodation, Registration, Deadlines, Early-Bird |
| April 2016 |
STAR Conference accommodation of choice, Tanoa International Hotel, Reservation Form |Download | |
Accommodation form for Tanoa, conference venue |
| April 2016 |
STAR 2016 Conference Registration Form |
Registration form only |
| May 2016 |
Trans International Hotel Accommodation Request Form |
Tanoa booked out, Alternate accommodation |
| May 2016 |
RATSUN Apartment Reservation Form |
Tanoa booked out, Alternate accommodation |
| May 2016 |
CPC-NIWA Deep Sea Mining Workshop, 4 June 2016, Final Programme |
1-day pre-STAR Workshop Programme |
| May 2016 |
Firstdraft Book of Abstracts STAR 2016 Conference (for comments) |
Abstracts, Review Doc, Paper authors |
| May 2016 |
Firstdraft STAR 2016 Conference Programme (for comments) |
Presenters/organisers Review Doc |
| May 2016 | Conference Field Trip - Registrations after 20th May, no guarantees | YASAWA FIELD TRIP 52 spaces SOLD OUT! |
| May 2016 |
STAR 2016 Abstract Volume and Abstract Programme as at 27 May 2016 |
Programme @ 27 May; Post 1st-draft comments version; Abstracts book hardcopies at Nadi |
| June 2016 |
STAR 2016 Yasawa Islands Field Trip Notes |
Notes on Geology of Yasawa Islands by Peter Rodda (unpublished) |
| June 2016 |
STAR 2016 Conference Third Circular |
3rd & final conference circular |
| POST-STAR 2016 CONFERENCE | UPDATED DOCUMENTS | |
| June 2016 |
STAR 2016 Conference Final Abstract Volume |
Abstracts, final set |
| June 2016 |
STAR 2016 Conference Final Programme |
Programme, as it happened |
| June 2016 |
STAR 2016 Conference Final List of Participants |
Participants at STAR 2016 and preceding meetings |
|
Star Annual Report 2015-2016 |
STAR 2016 CONFERENCE ABSTRACTS IN THE ORDER RECEIVED
| No | Date | Author(s) | Organization | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 Mar | KUMUL, Conrad | MRA (PNG) | Preliminary thermal water classification of West New Britain Province, Papua New Guinea [WITHDRAWN] |
| 2 | 2 Mar | KILAMANU, Willie | MRA (PNG) | Surface and drill-hole geological and geochemical data capture, analysis, input and visualisation [PDF] |
| 3 | 4 Mar | SAROA, Dulcie; LAHAN, Maxine | MRA (PNG) | Geothermal expressions and its associations with faulting in the Wau Bulolo region, Morobe Province, Papua New Guinea [WITHDRAWN] |
| 4 | 22 Mar | LAHAN, Maxine | MRA (PNG) | An overview of surface geothermal exploration in Papua New Guinea |
| 5 | 22 Mar | BARNICOAT, Andrew | GA (Australia) | Disaster Risk Reduction challenges in the Pacific: An Australian perspective |
| 6 | 23 Mar | WICHMAN, Marino | Seabed Minerals Authority (CK) | Development of the database for seabed minerals activities by the Cook Islands Seabed Minerals Authority |
| 7 | 24 Mar |
MORTIMER, Nick |
GNS |
Zealandia: the Southwest Pacific's hidden continent |
| 8 | 24 Mar |
MARTIN, A.P., Heron, D.W., Turnbull, R.E., Mortimer, N. |
GNS |
(POSTER) Assessing soil quality with a systematic geochemical baseline survey: a New Zealand example applicable to the Pacific Islands |
| 9 | 26 Mar | SEO, Seung-Nam Seo | KIOST | Reclamation and channel dredging of the Korea South Pacific Ocean Research Center, Chuuk |
| 10 | 28 Mar |
PARK, Kwang-Soon; Heo, Ki-Young |
KIOST |
Development of operational oceanographic system for coastal disaster reduction |
| 11 | 29 Mar | BEAVIS, Sara; Beckmann, E.A | ANU | (POSTER) The Water Ethics Moot: exploring the ethics of water management across the Pacific region |
| 12 | 30 Mar | RAMSAY, Doug; and others | NIWA; and others | Strengthening disaster and climate resilience of urban development in the Pacific [WITHDRAWN] |
| 13 | 30 Mar | RAMSAY, Doug; and others | NIWA; and others | Adaptation pathway development for community resilience in Kosrae [WITHDRAWN] |
| 14 | 30 Mar | HERON, David; and others | GNS; and others | New approaches to hazard and risk mapping, Vanuatu - developing safer communities |
| 15 | 30 Mar | LUKOVIC, Biljana; and others | GNS; and Meteorology & Geohazards Dept. VU | (POSTER) Development of tsunami evacuation maps, Port Vila and Luganville, Vanuatu |
| 16 | 31 Mar | SHERBURN, Steven; and others | GNS; and Tonga Government | Managing a volcanic eruption in a small island country: lessons from the 2014-15 eruption of Hunga Tonga - Hunga, Ha'apai in the Kingdom of Tonga |
| 17 | 31 Mar | YOO, Chanmin; and others | KIOST; and NEXGEO Inc | Resource estimation of polymetallic nodule deposits in the Clarion-Clipperton Fracture Zone, northeast Pacific |
| 18 | 31 Mar | LEE, Kwang Soo | KIOST | Role of ocean energy in the stand-alone microgrid system for green energy-independent island |
| 19 | 31 Mar | PARK, Young-Gyu; Kim, Young Ho; Na, Hanna | KIOST | Could we predict tuna catch using ocean circulation data? |
| 20 | 31 Mar | KIM, Kyoungrean; and others | KIOST | (POSTER) Pilot study: remediation of contaminated marine sediments for beneficial us |
| 21 | 31 Mar | LOCO, Amini; others | Pacific Community (GSD) | Assessment of water resources in atoll islands |
| 22 | 31 Mar | LEEVES, John; Quilter, Peter; Fakhruddin, Bapon | Tonkin & Taylor International Limited | Rapid damage mapping - Tropical Cyclone Winston, Fiji |
| 23 | 31 Mar | GARAEBITI, Esline; Todman, Sylvain; Lebellegard | Vanuatu Meteorology and Geohazards Dept; and IRD | Development and progress of the Oceania Regional Seismic Network (ORSNET) for tsunami early warning |
| 24 | 31 Mar | FAKHRUDDIN, Bapon | Tonkin & Taylor International Limited | Application of science and technology in the Sendai Framework |
| 25 | 31 Mar | CROWLEY, Kate; and others | NIWA; and others | Towards the implementation of PARTneR : Pacific Risk Tool for Resilience |
| 26 | 31 Mar | WILLIAMS, Shaun | University of Canterbury; and NIWA | Preliminary 3000-year long tsunami and cyclone history for the Samoan islands based on sedimentary records |
| 27 | 1 Apr | THIERRY, Hoibian; and others | University of New Caledonia | Sea currents monitoring in the northern part of the Wallis islands lagoon and global circulation pattern [WITHDRAWN] |
| 28 | 1 Apr | TODMAN, Sylvain; Mawa, Patricia; Garaebiti, Esline | Vanuatu Meteorology and Geohazards Dept | Warning information and dissemination platform in Vanuatu : a new approach supported by the Common Alerting Protocol (CAP) |
| 29 | 1 Apr | CHO, Seongick; Park, YoungJe | KIOST | (POSTER) Development of GOCI-II : the next geostationary ocean color imager with potential application for the Pacific islands |
| 30 | 1 Apr | GALVIS-RODRIGUEZ, Sandra C., Sinclair, Peter | Pacific Community (GSD) | Abstraction and climate change impacts on the Bonriki freshwater lens, Tarawa, Kiribati: an optimization approach to maximize the resource during droughts |
| 31 | 1 Apr | SINCLAIR, Peter; Galvis-Rodriguez, Sandra C. | Pacific Community (GSD) | Sustainability of freshwater lenses in atoll environments |
| 32 | 1 Apr | BLACKA, Matt; and others | University of New South Wales | Update on UNSW Research Program for extreme waves and storm surge on fringing reef coastlines |
| 33 | 1 Apr | TAWAKE, Akuila; Wakefield, Jeffrey R. | Pacific Community (GSD) | Cost benefit analysis for deep sea minerals mining in the Pacific |
| 34 | 1 Apr | THIERRY, Hoibian; and others | University of New Caledonia; and Wallis Islands | Sea level and temperature variations from a tide and waves gauge recording at Wallis Islands during the recent pause of global warming [WITHDRAWN] |
| 35 | 5 Apr | LUNGE, Moira; Espi, Joseph O. | PNG Mineral Resources Authority; and Geoexmin | Trace element geochemistry of chalcopyrites and pyrites from Golpu and Nabonga North porphyry Cu-Au deposits, Wafi-Golpu mineral district, Papua New Guinea |
| 36 | 7 Apr | VAN DE POLL, Robert | Fugro | Asia Pacific : 25 Coastal States' Law of the Sea summary update (securing the seabed resources of the EEZ and ECS) |
| 37 | 9 Apr | McCONNELL, Dan; Gharib, Jamshid (Jim); Kennedy, Paul | Fugro | Seafloor mapping for seafloor mineral exploration - technical overlap with approaches used in wide area high resolution search and large area cold seep mapping |
| 38 | 19 Apr | LAMARCHE, Geoffroy; Bonnifait, Cecile |
NIWA & Atelierworkshop Architects | From hazard assessment to village adaptation: the village of Sa'anapu, Samoa |
| 39 | 19 Apr | LAMARCHE, Geoffroy; and others | NIWA, UNSW, IRD, Universite Pierre et Marie Curie | Combining scenario-based numerical modelling, post-disaster surveys, palaeo/historic investigations and traditional environmental knowledge to increase community resilience to tsunami hazard in the Southwest Pacific |
| 40 | 20 Apr | RONGO, Teina |
Office of the Prime Minister, Cook Islands Government |
Using local knowledge to understand climate variability and climate change in the Cook Islands |
| 41 | 21 Apr | EKO, Winterford Iriohe |
PNG Department of MineraI Policy & Geohazards Management | Papua New Guinea Geothermal Resource Policy [WITHDRAWN] |
| 42 | 21 Apr | POK, Seymour | PNG Department of MineraI Policy & Geohazards Management | Mine waste management in Papua New Guinea: practice and regulation [WITHDRAWN] |
| 43 | 26 Apr | BOSSERELLE, Cyprien and others | Pacific Community (GSD) | Field investigations of coastal inundation and building damages from tropical cyclone Winston |
| 44 | 26 Apr | DAMLAMIAN, Herve and others | Pacific Community (GSD) | The use of multirotor and fixed wings UAVs to assess 3D shoreline change patterns generated by tropical cyclone Pam (Category 5) in Vanuatu 2015 |
| 45 | 26 Apr | BEGG, Zulfikar and others | Pacific Community (GSD) | El Nino coastal impact and recovery monitoring program, Kiritimati, Kiribati |
| 46 | 26 Apr | FORSTREUTER, Wolf; Faka'osi, Tevita | Pacific Community (GSD); and Forestry Division, Tonga |
Age estimation and form factor calculation of Pacific coconut palms |
| 47 | 27 Apr | SULLIVAN, Jonah | IUCN | High resolution biogeographic classification of regional oceans |
| 48 |
27 Apr | LEODORO, Michel; Bloomberg, Simon | Department of Geology, Mines and Water Resources, Vanuatu | Preliminary geothermal survey - Vanuatu: Tanna and Ambrym |
| 49 | 28 Apr | MCMURTRY, Gary M. and others | SOEST (UH), Fusion Energy Solutions of Hawai'i, Scripps, MKS | (POSTER) Development of a field-portable Helium isotope detector for continuous monitoring of large earthquakes and volcanic unrest |
| 50 | 28 Apr | MCMURTRY, Gary M. and others | SOEST & Microbiology Department of UH, KIGAM | Towards in situ monitoring of submarine gas hydrate fields with the Deep-Ocean Mass Spectrometer (DOMS) |
| 51 |
28 Apr | SMITH, Robert B. | Pacific Community (GSD) | Atoll reclamation - a solution to pressing problems of land scarcity, water lens vulnerability, sea-level rise and climate change |
| 52 | 28 Apr | LAL, Andrick | Pacific Community (GSD) | Positioning in the Pacific islands |
| 53 | 28 Apr | ROSSER, Brenda; Dellow, Sally | GNS | Landslide mapping and hazard assessment in New Zealand |
| 54 | 28 Apr | CRONIN, Shane; and others | University of Auckland | Hunga Ha'apai-Hunga Tonga - birth of a new volcano and discovery of a new caldera |
| 55 |
29 Apr | ARTACK, Emily | Pacific Community (GSD) | Establishing the outer limits of maritime zones of Pacific island countries |
| 56 | 29 Apr | SON, Seung-Kyu; and others | KIOST | (POSTER) Searching active hydrothermal vent sites in the EEZ of the Republic of the Fiji islands using biogeochemical tracers |
| 57 | 29 Apr | YAKUB, Naushad | IUCN | MACBIO - assisting Pacific governments to manage marine resources |
| 58 | 29 Apr | SMILLIE, Robert; and others |
GNS | The role of geological mapping and innovative GIS applications for identifying natural resources potential: the New Zealand QMAP experience |
| 59 | 29 Apr | PEARSON, Chris; Smillie, Robert | University of Otago, GNS | (POSTER) Datum modernization in the Pacific island developing states: key infrastructure for sustainable development and disaster risk reduction |
| 60 | 29 Apr | KAITU'U, Sione | IUCN (MACBIO Project) | Building GIS capacity from the ground up |
| 61 | 29 Apr | RAM, Arishma R; Cronin, Shane J; Brook, Martin | University of Auckland | (POSTER) Characteristics of slope failures induced by tropical cyclone Winston (20-21 Feb, 2016) along King's Road, northern Viti Levu, Fiji islands |
| 62 | 29 Apr | JOLLIFFE, James | Pacific Community (GSD) | The economic dimensions of relocation as an adaptation to climate change in Fiji |
| 63 | 29 Apr | PRASAD, Christine | Pacific Community (GSD) | (POSTER) SPC-EU Environmentally Safe Aggregate for Tarawa (ESAT) Project Overview |
| 64 | 29 Apr | ATALIFO, Vira | Pacific Community (GSD) | (POSTER) Deep sea minerals in the Pacific region and the potential mining impacts |
| 65 | 29 Apr | SMITH, Robert; Prasad, Christine | Pacific Community (GSD) | A geophysical and geological interpretation of northeast Tongatapu - the importance of it to understanding how climate variability drives social adaptation |
| 66 | 29 Apr | BURTON, John; Tawake, Akuila; and others | PACE-NET (USP), Pacific Community (GSD) | The Pacific centre for social responsibility and natural resources - a new research and policy hub |
| 67 |
29 Apr | HOEKE, Ron K; McInnes, Kathy L; and O'Grady, Julian G |
CSIRO | Multi-variate coastal inundation forecasting and risk analysis for the Pacific |
| 68 | 29 Apr | DAY, Christopher Mark | Pacific Community (GSD) | SPC-EU-GOK Environmentally Safe Aggregate for Tarawa (ESAT) - project overview [WITHDRAWN] |
| 69 | 29 Apr | LEONARD, Graham; Garaebiti, Esline; and others | GNS, Vanuatu Meteorological and Geohazards Department, NDMO Vanuatu | Development of a collaborative consistent volcano communication framework in Vanuatu: hazard maps, education, alert levels, bulletins, signs and procedures |
| 70 | 29 Apr | YEO, Stephen; and others |
World Bank | Flood risk management in the Pacific |
| 71 | 2 May | SIMPSON, Abraham | SPREP | Climate change research focus: loss and damage associated with coastal hazards in Kosrae, Micronesia [WITHDRAWN] |
| 72 | 3 May | TAYLOR, Paul |
Pacific Community (GSD) | The 1946 eruption of Niuafo'ou Island, Tonga: was an evacuation really warranted? |
| 73 | 4 May | BOURREL, Marie | Pacific Community (GSD) | Strengthening governance of Pacific island countries to ensure sustainable management of deep sea mineral resources [WITHDRAWN] |
| 74 | 10 May | SIMONS, Benjamin; Cronin, Shane; and others | University of Auckland, Vanuatu Meteorological and Geohazards Department | (POSTER) Drivers of variation in hazards at a persistently active volcano, Yasur, Vanuatu |
| 75 | 25 May | FORSTREUTER, Wolf |
Pacific Community (GSD) | Mapping village damage with space borne image data |
| 76 | 25 May | GREENE, H. Gary; and Maher, Norman | Moss Landing Marine Labs, Tahoe Maps | Using a UAV to map and monitor environmental changes in lagoons, bays and sounds of the San Juan Archipelago for management purposes |
| 77 | 25 May | GREENE, H. Gary; Barrie, J. Vaughn; Conway, Kim; and others | Moss Landing Marine Labs, SeaDoc Tombolo Mapping Lab, Geological Survey of Canada, US Geological Survey, Pacific Gas & Electric Co. | Assessing the seismic and tsunami hazards along a major transform plate boundary - the Queen Charlotte-Fairweather leaky transform fault system of Canada and Alaska |
| 78 | 26 May | SINGH, Sachindra | Pacific Community (GSD) | Provisioning spatial data infrastructure within Pacific island countries |