Monday, 26 June – Day 1 – Go To – Day 3 Presentations

	DAY 1
Time	Authors & Presenter	Title	PDF
11:15-11:35	Tomohiko Fukushima	Appropriate Environmental Impact Assessment Technologies for Seabed Mining	Download
10:45-11:00	Robert Smith & Christine Prasad	A geophysical and geological interpretation of northeast Tongatapu, the importance of it to understanding how climate variability drives social adaption	Download
11:00-11:15	Bapon Fakhruddin	Application of science and technology in the Sendai Framework	Download
11:15-11:30	Teina Rongo	Using local knowledge to understand climate variability and climate change in the Cook Islands	Download
11:45-12:10	Matt Blacka, Kristen Splinter, Ron Cox & Francois Flocard	Update on UNSW research program for extreme waves and storm surge on fringing reef coastlines	Download
12:10-12:25	Robert Van de Poll	Asia Pacific: 25 Coastal States’ Law of the Sea Summary Update (Securing the Seabed Resources of the EEZ and ECS)	Download
	PARALLEL SESSION A – MAIN CONFERENCE ROOM
13:30-13:45	Shane J. Cronin, Marco Brenna, Manuela Tost & others	Hunga Ha’apai-Hunga Tonga – birth of a new volcano and discovery of a new caldera	Download
13:45-14:00	Graham Leonard, Esline Garaebiti, Sylvain Todman & others	Development of a collaborative consistent volcano communication framework in Vanuatu: hazard maps, education, alert levels, bulletins, signs and procedures	Download
14:00-14:15	Nick Mortimer	Zealandia: the Southwest Pacific’s hidden continent	Download
14:15-14:30	Esline Garaebiti, Sylvain Todman & Pierre Lebellegard	Development and progress of the Oceania Regional Seismic Network (ORSNET) for tsunami early warning	Download
14:30-14:45	Steven Sherburn, Taaniela Kula, Leveni Aho & others	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	Download
14:45-15:00	Paul Taylor	The 1946 eruption of Niuafo’ou Island, Tonga: was an evacuation really warranted?	Download
	PARALLEL SESSION B – TALEI ROOM
13:30-13:45	Akuila K. Tawake, Jeffrey R. Wakefield & Kelley Myers	Cost benefit analysis for deep sea minerals mining in the Pacific	Download
13:45-14:00	John Kaitu’u	Building GIS capacity from the ground up	Download
14:00-14:15	Andrick Lal	Positioning in the Pacific Islands	Download
14:15-14:30	Emily Artack	Establishing the outer limits of maritime zones of Pacific island countries	Download
14:30-14:45	Naushad Yakub	MACBIO – Assisting Pacific Governments to manage marine resources	Download
14:45-15:00
	REFRESHMENT BREAK
15:30-15:45	Zulfikar Begg, Herve Damlamian, Salesh Kumar & others	El Niño coastal impact and recovery monitoring program, Kiritimati, Kiribati	Download
15:45-16:00	Amini Loco, Peter Sinclair, Amit Singh & Martin Mataio	Assessment of water resources in atoll islands	Download
16:00-16:15	Sandra C. Galvis & Peter Sinclair	Abstraction and climate impacts on the Bonriki freshwater lens, Tarawa, Kiribati: An optimization approach to maximize the resource during droughts	Download
16:15-16:30	Peter Sinclair & Sandra C. Galvis	Sustainability of freshwater lenses in atoll environments	Download
16:30-16:45	Wolf Forstreuter & Tevita Faka’osi	Age estimation and form factor calculation of Pacific coconut palms	Download
16:45-17:00	Sachindra Singh	Provisioning spatial data infrastructure within Pacific island countries	Download
17:00-17:15	James Jolliffe	The economic dimensions of relocation as an adaptation to climate change in Fiji	Download
17:15-17:30	Wolf Forstreuter	Mapping village damage with space borne image data	Download
17:30-17:45	John Burton, Akuila Tawake, Glenn Banks & Pierre-Yves Le Meur	The Pacific Centre for Social Responsibility and Natural Resources – a new research and policy hub	Download
	CONFERENCE COCKTAIL HOSTED BY CHAIR/FIJI GOVERNMENT

Malakai Finau

Permanent Secretary for Lands and Mineral Resources - Fiji.

Akuila Tawake

Interim Director Goescience Division, Pacific Community

Raijeli Taga

Director Ministry of Lands and Mineral Resource - Fiji

Paul Taylor

Deputy Director DRP - GSD Division -Pacific Community

Robert Smith

Senior Adviser Marine Geophysics - GSD division - Pacific Community

Christine Prasad

Geologist GSD division - Pacific Community

Apete Soro

Acting Manager Geological Services Lands andMineral Resources Deaprtment,

Dr. Russell Howorth

Dr Wolf Forstreuter

Manager Geoinfomatics - GSD Division Pacific Community

Litia Waradi

Executive Assistant, GSD Division, Pacific Community

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Other documents generated by STAR (in its various forms); most of which were published in proceedings of annual meetings of SOPAC (in its various forms). These mostly are the STAR Chair’s reports and recommendations to the governing body of SOPAC:

i) Under the Geoscience Division of the Secretariat of the Pacific Community (SPC)

ii) Under the Pacific Islands Applied Geoscience Commission (SOPAC)

iii) Under the South Pacific Applied Geoscience Commission (SOPAC):

iv) Under the UN ESCAP Committee for Coordination of Joint Prospecting for Mineral Resources in South Pacific Offshore Areas (CCOP/SOPAC):

Title	Reference Number	Download LinK
Abstracts of Papers Presented at the STAR Session 2013, October 2013 (edited by John Collen, Lala Bukarau and Nicole Daniels), Rarotonga, Cook Islands	PR175
Abstracts of Papers Presented at the STAR Session 2012, November 2012 (edited by John Collen and Lala Bukarau), Noumea, New Caledonia.	PR142
Abstracts of Papers Presented at the STAR Session 2011, October 2011 (edited by John Collen and Lala Bukarau), Nadi, Fiji	PR26
Abstracts of Papers Presented at the STAR Session 2010, October 2010 (edited by John Collen and Lala Bukarau), Nadi, Fiji	MR0717b
Abstracts of Papers Presented at the STAR Session 2009, October 2009 (edited by John Collen and Lala Bukarau), Port Vila, Vanuatu	MR0700b
Abstracts of Papers Presented at the STAR Session 2008, October 2008 (edited by John Collen and Lala Bukarau), Funafuti, Tuvalu	MR0672b
Abstracts of Papers Presented at the STAR Session 2007, November 2007 (edited by JohnCollen and Lala Bukarau), Nuku’alofa, Tonga	MR0650b
Abstracts of Papers Presented at the STAR Session 2006, September 2006 (edited by John Collen and Lala Bukarau), Honiara, Solomon Islands.	MR0621b
Abstracts of Papers Presented at the STAR Session 2005, September 2005 (edited by John Collen and Lala Bukarau), Apia, Samoa6	MR0603
Abstracts of Papers Presented at the STAR Session 2004, September 2004 (edited by John Collen), Coral Coast, Fiji	MR0576
Abstracts of Papers Presented at the STAR Session 2003, September 2003 (edited by John Collen), Alofi, Niue	MR0549
Abstracts of Papers Presented at the STAR Session 2002, September 2002 (edited by John Collen), Suva, Fiji	MR0487
Abstracts of Papers Presented at the STAR Session 2001, October 2001 (edited by John Collen and Peter Rodda), Majuro, Marshall Islands	MR0445
Abstracts of Papers Presented at the STAR Session 2000, September 2000 (edited by John Collen and Russell Howorth), Tarawa, Kiribati	MR0387
Abstracts of Papers Presented at the STAR Session 1999, September 1999 (edited by Keith Crook and Peter Rodda), Nadi, Fiji	MR0355
Abstracts of Papers Presented at the STAR Session 1998, September 1998 (edited by Keith Crook, Peter Rodda and Russell Howorth), Suva, Fiji	MR0300
Abstracts of Papers Presented at the STAR Session 1997, September 1997 (edited by Keith Crook and	MR0263
Abstracts of Papers Presented at the STAR Session 1996, September 1996 (edited by Keith Crook and Russell Howorth), Rarotonga, Cook Islands	MR0237
Abstracts of Papers Presented at the STAR Session 1995, September 1995 (edited by Keith Crook and Russell Howorth), Suva, Fiji	MR0201
Abstracts of Papers Presented at the STAR Session 1994, September 1994 (edited by Keith Crook), Majuro, Marshall Islands	MR0182
Islands and Basins: Correlation and Comparison of Onshore and Offshore Geology (edited by Graeme Wheller, Fiji Mineral Resources Department) – Abstracts of Presentations made to the STAR (Science, Tectonics and Resources of the South Pacific Meeting at the 22^nd SOPAC Annual Session), Suva, Fiji	MR0159
Joint CCOP/SOPAC-IOC Fourth International Workshop on Geology, Geophysics and Mineral Resources of the South Pacific, 24 September – 1 October 1989, Canberra, Australia, Second Circular and List of Papers and Presenters	MR0076
Joint CCOP/SOPAC-IOC Fourth International Workshop on Geology, Geophysics and Mineral Resources of the South Pacific, 24 September – 1 October 1989, Canberra, Australia, Programme and Abstracts Volume	MR0079
Joint CCOP(SOPAC)-IOC Working Group on South Pacific Tectonics and Resources (STAR), Fourth Session, Suva, Fiji, 14-15 October 1988	UNESCO/IOC report
Joint CCOP(SOPAC)-IOC Working Group on South Pacific Tectonics and Resources (STAR), Third Session, Rarotonga, Cook Islands, 2-3 September 1986	UNESCO/IOC
Joint CCOP(SOPAC)-IOC Working Group on South Pacific Tectonics and Resources (STAR), Second Session, Honiara, Solomon Islands, 10-12 September 1985	UNESCO/IOC report
Joint CCOP(SOPAC)-IOC Working Group on South Pacific Tectonics and Resources (STAR), First Session, Apia, Western Samoa, 2 November 1984	UNESCO/IOC report

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Christine Prasad

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