Earlier this year I accompanied the REPICORE working group led by Dr. Sebastian Ferse to the Melanesian region, where they fed back the findings of this five-year program to the respective stakeholders consisting of community […]
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 […]
I flew from Suva, via Nadi to Honiara, the capital of the Solomon Islands where the REPICORE feedback trip continued. Of the more than 620.ooo inhabitants of this independent island state, only a little more […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Almost two months have passed since my first post about my project on a shark nursery here on Fiji. Time is literally flying and so much has happened since then. In the last weeks I […]
For the last few weeks I have been busy organizing my project on scalloped hammerhead shark nurseries here in Fiji. Maybe quite normal for field work I‘ve been facing several challenges that were sometimes not easy […]
Today Stefan Gehrig takes us along his thoughts, impressions and observations of his stay on Zanzibar, where he gathers data for his master thesis on Social-Ecological relationships. or the completion of my ISATEC degree, I […]
It’s been almost three weeks since I finally set foot on Fiji ground. I took a plane from Brisbane and landed around three hours later in Nadi, the third biggest city on Fiji’s main island […]
Tom Vierus is an award-winning photographer, filmmaker, and marine biologist based in Suva, Fiji Islands. This blog is dedicated to his assignments and to sharing some behind-the-scenes footage.
