FIJI ISLANDS
Fiji Islands
Living and working in Fiji I have spent time in various parts of the island archipelago consisting of more than 300 islands. Fiji is home to less than one million people but has a lot to offer – above and below the water surface.
First scientific paper published | Shark aggregation area in Fiji
Finally, after more than a years work excluding the actual fieldwork itself, my first scientific publication was published yesterday in Ecology & Evolution. Titled "Discovery of a multispecies shark aggregation and parturition area in the Ba Estuary, Fiji Islands", it ...
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REPICORE Feedback Expedition to the Pacific | #2
After we landed back in Suva we made our way down to the Coral Coast to spend the weekend in one of the hotels there. While Amanda, Janne and I packed all the gear into a taxi and arrived late ...
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REPICORE Feedback Expedition to the Pacific | #1
The last months have been quite busy – after coming back from French Polynesia, I was working throughout December and January and then embarked on a five-week Pacific Expedition at the beginning of February. I joined the REPICORE team led by ...
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Fiji Shark Diving 2018
During our last expedition to the Pacific in February/March I got the chance to pay the team of Beqa Adventure Divers a few visits and join their shark diving. I had great memories from the shark dives I did there ...
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New Youtube channel!
A few weeks ago I decided to create a new youtube channel to upload my recent videography work. As some of you might know I have been on youtube for quite a while where I have posted my holiday videos ...
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Good News! Science Photo Award Winner
A couple of days ago the Bild der Wissenschaft announced the winners of this year’s science photo award aaaaaaaand I won the reportage-category with a series about my shark research in Fiji! The German Price for Science Photography is awarded with ...
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Shark Research Project IV – Analysis and Lab work
I am back in my everyday routine in Germany: I wake up, have my morning coffee(s) and then head to the ZMT, where I spend the day in the laboratory. By now, I have finished all extractions, i.e. getting the DNA ...
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Shark Nursery Project, Fiji – Update III – Preliminary results
A little more than three weeks ago I came back to my home country Germany after spending almost seven months on the Fiji-Islands, where I conducted my master thesis fieldwork concentrated in a potential shark nursery area. It certainly has been ...
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Sharkdiving in Fiji – favorite images so far
After having been able to dive a couple of times the professional team of Beqa Adventure Divers over the last six months and having had the chance to see bull sharks, grey reef sharks, blacktip reef sharks, whitetip reef sharks and from ...
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Cyclone Winston and the current situation in Fiji
It’s been quiet on my blog for a few weeks. A lot has happened here in Fiji since my last post: Cyclone Winston swooped through Fiji on the 20th of February and left a path of destruction behind, namely in some outer ...
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