Pacific Science Association Research Articles

David Stoddart OBE

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Editorial: The Pacific Science Association and Human Dimensions Research in the Asia-Pacific Region

Editorial: The Pacific Science Association and Human Dimensions Research in the Asia-Pacific Region

The Pacific Science Association: more than eight decades of science in and of the Pacific

The Pacific Science Association (PSA), which is dedicated to the science of and in the Pacific, is the oldest Asia-Pacific regional inter-disciplinary science association. The PSA has been an influential organisation in the region over the course of its eight decade history. It has also served as a seedbed for other organisations and projects. The changing contexts of the late 20th century posed challenges for the PSA as they did for other scientific organisations. The complexity of current demographic, environmental and development concerns demands inter-disciplinary approaches to contemporary challenges. The PSA, an inter-disciplinary organisation from its inception, must review its mission, address its policy relevance, adopt new communication strategies and become a scientific resource for the future.

The PABITRA Project: Island Landscapes Under Global Change

ABSTRACT The Pacific-Asia Biodiversity Transect (PABITRA) is a network of the Ecosystem Division in the Pacific Science Association's Task Force on Biodiversity. The PABITRA project seeks to develop a network of ocean-to-mountain transects on islands across the Pacific to test hypotheses about biodiversity and promote sustainable use of island ecosystems under the influence of global change. A specific objective of PABITRA was to establish an ocean-to-mountain transect in Fiji with major involvement of the resident islanders. Along this transect, a number of biodiversity study sites were to be selected for further research. The transect was established during two consecutive field workshops, from 18 November to 3 December 2002. Involved were 25 University of the South Pacific (USP) students, eight local faculty including Fiji Government and nongovernmental organization officials, and seven overseas collaborators. The outcome was documented in a 69-page illustrated report issued by the USP Institute of App...

Global environmental change at the Pacific Science Congress

At the end of May 1991, Honolulu was the venue of the XVII Pacific Science Congress. It was the most recent of the major gatherings, every four years, of the Pacific Science Association, now over seventy years old. The meeting was attended by more than 1500 scientists from over 50 countries. The programme, with the overall theme ‘The Challenge of Change ’, was built around six sections among which global environmental change in the Pacific figured prominently indeed.

The Future of Migration in the Pacific and Asia

The XVIIth Pacific Science Association Congress met in Honolulu, Hawaii from May 27, to June 1, 1991, with an attendance in excess of 1,500, most of whom presented papers. Honolulu, Geneva of the Pacific Century (as locals are calling it), is able to attract a large number of visitors, easily and relatively cheaply, in addition to the considerable resident talent con? ducting research in the Pacific. There were many well-balanced programs, bringing in a variety of scholars from around the region. Robert Gardner and Murray Chapman, both of the East-West Center, University of Hawaii, put together a program entitled, on the Future of Migration in the Pacific and Twenty researchers presented nineteen papers. Bob Gardner presided over the talks and the whole exercise went well. It is likely that the papers will be published in a new publication, Journal of Asia-Pacific Migration, recently announced by the Centre of Migration Studies, at the University of the Philippines, Manila. The Symposium was divided into four sections, commencing with a session of four papers offering overviews of various facets of migration. Jerrold W. Huguet (of ESCAP) considered the future of international migration within Asia, noting the complexity of Asian intraregional migra? tion and the large numbers involved, as relatively low-skilled laborers seek work in neighboring and wealthier countries. Illegal migrants and tribal minorities cross borders they scarcely recognize. Huguet suggests that a common labor market will develop as countries begin to plan their needs within a regional context. He argued that there would be greater govern? ment control, more protection for workers, especially against unscrupulous recruiters, and wage regularization on a regional basis. Ronald Skeldon (University of Hong Kong) examined the mobility transition in Asia, taking current theories and assessing their utility. He has established a regional classification of the stages of the mobility transition in Asia. He argued that changing mobility should be seen more clearly as

The oceanography of the pacific: George F. McEwen, H. U. Sverdrup and the origin of physical oceanography on the west coast of North America

Summary By comparison with the Atlantic Ocean, the physical oceanography of the Pacific was poorly known as late as the end of the 1930s. International collaboration to study the Pacific, attempted by oceanography committees of the Pacific Science Association, was a failure, owing to the scale of the enterprise, the low scientific abilities of the Pacific nations, and the lack of a compelling need. Even in the U.S.A., where the Scripps Institution of Oceanography (founded in 1903 under another name) was active, lack of good ships and personnel reduced the effectiveness of Pacific oceanography. Scripps's physical oceanographer George F. McEwen was more physicist than physical oceanographer; he also became side-tracked into climatology. Only with the arrival of H. U. Sverdrup at Scripps in 1936 did Pacific physical oceanography begin to prosper, but its greatest success followed World War II, when techniques and approaches transplanted from the Atlantic became established.

The Global Era

The background to the establishment of the Pacific Science Association (PSA), an international, non-governmental, region-oriented science and technology association which brings together research on the scientific problems of the Pacific region is discussed. The objectives of the PSA, its governing structure, and details of its membership and the scientific committees assisting it are presented.

First Pacific Symposium on Marine Sciences

The First Pacific Symposium on Marine Sciences was held in Nakhodka in the Primorsk region of the Soviet Union, August 7—16, 1986. The meeting was organized by the Scientific Committee on Marine Sciences of the Pacific Science Association (PSA), an international nongovernmental body devoted to initiating and promoting cooperation in solving scientific problems of the Pacific Basin. The committee is composed of three marine scientists from the Soviet Union, three from the United States, and one each from Canada, the Philippines, Japan , New Zealand, France, Tahiti, Australia, South Korea, and Indonesia. The American members of the committee are G. W. Boehlert (National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS), Honolulu, Hawaii), J.C. Kelley (San Francisco State University, School of Science, San Francisco, Calif.), and G.R. Seckel (Pacific Fisheries Environmental Group, NMFS, Monterey, Calif.). The committee is chaired by V.I. Ilyichev, who is president of the Far Eastern Sciences Center of the U.S.S.R. Academy of Sciences and also the director of the Pacific Oceanological Institute in Vladivostok.

Review

Persistence and Exchange.: By Roland W. Force and Brenda Bishop (editors). Honolulu, Pacific Science Association. 1981. Pp. ix + 155. Price $US10.00.

Reviews

Population Change in the Pacific Region.: Eds Yunshik Chang and Peter J. Donaldson. Pacific Science Association, printed in Republic of Korea, December, 1976. Pp. 206.

Pacific-Basin Cities in the Eighties: Fourth Inter-congress of the Pacific Science Association, held in Singapore during 1–5 September 1981

Pacific-Basin Cities in the Eighties: Fourth Inter-congress of the Pacific Science Association, held in Singapore during 1–5 September 1981

A New Disease in Southeast Asia

A New Disease in Southeast Asia

Pacific science congress meets in Canada

The Thirteenth Pacific Science Congress will be held on the campus of the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, from August 18 to 30, 1975. The theme of the congress is ‘Mankind's Future in the Pacific.’The Pacific Science Association, sponsor of the congress, was founded in 1920 and now numbers 46 countries or areas as members and 7 as honorary members.

A Report of the 2nd Inter-Congress, Pacific Science Association

This is a concise report of the 2nd Inter-Congress, Pacific Science Association, May 20-25, 1973, University of Guam. 136 people attended the conference with successful results in the symposia (1) impact of urban centers, (2) biology and ecology of the crown-of-thorns starfish, Acanthaster planci, (3) natural area system development, (4) problem of on-land ocean floor, (5) Dengue fever and (6) Amyotraphic lateral sclerosis and Parkinsonism dementia. There were also several scientific excursions. The major program of the 13th Pacific Congress, August 18-30, 1975, University of British Columbia, Vancouver has been determined.

Twelfth Pacific Science Congress

The Twelfth Pacific Science Congress of the Pacific Science Association will be held at the Australian National University, Canberra, from August 18 to September 3, 1971. The host organization is the Australian Academy of Science. The Congress will mark the Fiftieth‐Anniversary of the foundation of the Pacific Science Association in 1920.

XII Pacific Science Congress of the Pacific Science Association

Journal Article XII Pacific Science Congress of the Pacific Science Association Get access Bulletin of the Entomological Society of America, Volume 16, Issue 4, 15 December 1970, Page 205, https://doi.org/10.1093/besa/16.4.205a Published: 15 December 1970

A bibliography of R. S. Allan

Abstract In the “Bibliography of New Zealand Geology to 1950” to be published shortly as N.Z. Geological Survey Bulletin 65, there are 45 entries under the name of R. S. Allan. A few only of these are repeated here, under the heading “Selected Geological Publications to 1950”. Allan's geological publications since 1950 and his publications on a variety of other subjects (including the philosophy and administration of science, psychology, and the growing of alpine plants) are listed below under a rough classification. The breadth of his scientific interests is evident, and there also emerges clearly a picture of the amount of time and effort he put into his work not only for the University but also for the Royal Society of New Zealand, the Pacific Science Association, and the Canterbury Museum. His painstaking work as a bibliographer is acknowledged by the inclusion of a separate section listing some of his useful compilations in this field.

SOCIAL MEDICINE IN NEW GUINEA: BELIEFS AND PRACTICES AFFECTING HEALTH AMONG THE ABELAM AND WAM PEOPLES OF THE SEPIK DISTRICT. PART I

Medical Journal of AustraliaVolume 1, Issue 1 p. 1-8 Original Article SOCIAL MEDICINE IN NEW GUINEA: BELIEFS AND PRACTICES AFFECTING HEALTH AMONG THE ABELAM AND WAM PEOPLES OF THE SEPIK DISTRICT. PART I† F. D. Schofield, F. D. Schofield Department of Public Health, Territory of Papua and New GuineaSearch for more papers by this authorA. D. Parkinson, A. D. Parkinson Department of Public Health, Territory of Papua and New GuineaSearch for more papers by this author F. D. Schofield, F. D. Schofield Department of Public Health, Territory of Papua and New GuineaSearch for more papers by this authorA. D. Parkinson, A. D. Parkinson Department of Public Health, Territory of Papua and New GuineaSearch for more papers by this author First published: 01 January 1963 https://doi.org/10.5694/j.1326-5377.1963.tb26535.xCitations: 6 †An abstract of this paper was presented at the Tenth Pacific Science Congress of the Pacific Science Association, held at the University of Hawaii, Honolulu, Hawaii, from August 21 to September 6, 1961, and sponsored by the National Academy of Sciences, the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum and the University of Hawaii. AboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditWechat Citing Literature Volume1, Issue1January 1963Pages 1-8 RelatedInformation

SOCIAL MEDICINE IN NEW GUINEA: BELIEFS AND PRACTICES AFFECTING HEALTH AMONG THE ABELAM AND WAM PEOPLES OF THE SEPIK DISTRICT. PART II

Medical Journal of AustraliaVolume 1, Issue 2 p. 29-33 Original Article SOCIAL MEDICINE IN NEW GUINEA: BELIEFS AND PRACTICES AFFECTING HEALTH AMONG THE ABELAM AND WAM PEOPLES OF THE SEPIK DISTRICT. PART II† F. D. Schofield, F. D. Schofield Department of Public Health, Territory of Papua and New GuineaSearch for more papers by this authorA. D. Parkinson, A. D. Parkinson Department of Public Health, Territory of Papua and New GuineaSearch for more papers by this author F. D. Schofield, F. D. Schofield Department of Public Health, Territory of Papua and New GuineaSearch for more papers by this authorA. D. Parkinson, A. D. Parkinson Department of Public Health, Territory of Papua and New GuineaSearch for more papers by this author First published: 01 January 1963 https://doi.org/10.5694/j.1326-5377.1963.tb27085.xCitations: 1 †An abstract of this paper was presented at the Tenth Pacific Science Congress of the Pacific Science Association held at the University of Hawaii, Honolulu, Hawaii, from August 21 to September 6, 1961, and sponsored by the National Academy of Sciences, the Bernice Pauahl Bishop Museum and the University of Hawaii. AboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditWechat Citing Literature Volume1, Issue2January 1963Pages 29-33 RelatedInformation