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WWF Fiji Expedition Diary
Lara Hansen, senior scientist - Cimate Change
Lara Hansen, senior scientist - climate change, traveled to Fiji in March 2007. With several local and American colleagues and a crew from National Public Radio, Lara and her team visited several coral reefs and mangrove forests to assess the current effects of climate change and look for ways to help coastal ecosystems and communities respond to the growing concerns prompted by global warming.
Join Lara and her team on a journey to one of the world's most beautiful coral reefs. Learn how WWF is studying this environment and its role as an indicator of the effects of climate change.
Heading to Fiji | Mangroves you say? | Saturday, February 24 - Here at Last! | Sunday, February 25th | Monday, February 26th | Tuesday, February 27th - Let the Work Begin | Wednesday, February 28th | Thursday, March 1st | Friday, March 2nd | Saturday, March 3rd
Heading to Fiji
We're off to Fiji to conduct the first field surveys for a new WWF project to look at ways to help coastal ecosystems and communities respond to climate change. Funded by the Global Environment Facility through the United Nations Environment Program, this project is taking place in three places simultaneously--Fiji, Tanzania and Cameroon.
To get to Fiji from Washington, DC you fly through Los Angeles or Honolulu. On the way here we never saw February 23rd, but on the way back we'll get to have March 3rd twice. Coming along on the trip are Jennie Hoffman, WWF senior program officer for climate change, my husband Eric, a fellow researcher, and our son Ari.
Along for the ride this week are Chris Joyce and Jessica Goldstein of National Public Radio Expeditions. They are doing a year-long series on climate change and have come to see what we are up to.
In Fiji we will meet up with our WWF Fiji and South Pacific Program researchers and community liaisons. They include Monifa Fiu (the Mangrove/Coral lead researcher in Fiji), Penina Namata (our community liaison and translator), Teri (a graduate students from the University of the South Pacific in Suva, Fiji ), Rosila (a WWF Fiji intern) and Kathrine (the communications manager from WWF Fiji).
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Expedition Diary
Take a journey with Lara Hansen, WWF's chief climate change scientist, to Fiji, where WWF is studying the effects of climate change