Thierry and I joined George Balazs in Suva on the afternoon of 7/18/18 (Wednesday) after our flight from Vila to Suva. We checked in to the Town House apartments Hotel. The place has seen better days but seemed to be clean and reasonably well run. The staff are very friendly and helpful. A note: The internet connectivity in Suva is very bad.. almost to the point of "it isn't worth trying. There are no free connections anywhere. Nadi does have 1/2 hour of good speed internet connectivity in the airport.
Thursday morning we traveled by taxi the 4 Km to the University of the Pacific, Laucala Campus, marine sciences division. It is located right on the ocean and is also very pretty. We set up our first day in the large lecture hall where I was to give the first presentation (20 minutes on our HPA Sea turtle research program focusing on how it helps to create scientists, concerned citizens and conservationists.
The day went on until around 1700 hours with several Tea breaks and a nice lunch hosted by the Fuji Fisheries science department.
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| The University of the South Pacific Campus is very beautiful and clean. It seems that the students are very respectful of their environment. |
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| Conference attendees in group photo. |
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| Marc giving his presentation "Increasing the Impact of Research: Involving students produces conservationists and scientists. |
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| Venu for the first day of the meeting. |
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| The Bula where we will do the health assessment and satellite tag attachment demonstrations. |
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