FIJI COUNTRY PROGRAM 2015

COLLABORATING STUDENTS WITH WCS-FIJI
Rachel Dacks
Rachel is in the final year of her PhD at University of Hawaii. Her thesis is titled
“Investigating the complexities of coral reef social-ecological resilience in Fiji”. She
has conducted household and fisher interviews across Fiji to better understand
how marine resource use varies across a gradient of social, economic, and
ecological conditions. She is supervised by Dr. Cynthia Hunter and advised by Dr.
Stacy Jupiter.
Jordan Goetze
Jordan is in the final year of his PhD in Marine Ecology at the University of Western
Australia in Perth. He is a specialist in the use of stereo-video methods to assess
the benefits of periodically harvested closures to small scale fisheries across Fiji.
His thesis is titled “The effectiveness of periodically harvested closures as a
fisheries management strategy”. He is supervised by Drs. Timoth Langlois, Shaun
Wilson, Euan Harvey, Jane Prince and Stacy Jupiter.
Aaron Jenkins
Aaron is in the final year of his PhD at Edith Cowan University in Western
Australia. His thesis is titled “Environmental determinants of Typhoid fever in
Central Division, Fiji: refocusing the transdisciplinary lens.” He is supervised
by Prof. Pierre Horwitz, Prof. Adam Jenney and Dr. Stacy Jupiter.
Steven Lee
Steven is a Fijian in the second year of his Master of Science at University of
Bremen in Germany. His thesis is titled “The ecosystem role of Holothuria scabra:
impacts of farming and wild harvest on a Fijian reef flat.” He is supervised by Dr.
Sebastian Ferse, Prof. Christian Wild, Dr. Sangeeta Mangubhai, and Amanda Ford.
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