The 11th Pacific Science Inter-congress, held in conjunction with 2nd Symposium on French Research in the Pacific, was attended by several CRISP members. The theme of the 2009 Inter-congress was "Pacific countries and their ocean facing local and global changes". An ABS workshop was organized by the Component 2C coordinator and the CRISP coordinator on "Access and benefit sharing of the research on the biodiversity in the Pacific".

A workshop on "cooperation in Science and Education in the Pacific" was chaired by Bernard Salvat, CRISP Scientific adviser.

Posters from CRISP partners

• Analyse Ecoregionale Marine de la nouvelle-caledonie - Poster (PDF File)
• Spatio-temporal structure of harvested tropical reef invertebrates: a case study on New Caledonian reefs flats - Poster (PDF File)
• Études comportementales et de vulnérabilité de la population de requins citron (Negaprion acutidens) sur le site de « feeding » d’Opunohu à Moorea, Polynésie française - Poster (PDF File)

Presentations from CRISP partners

• Toward appropriate indicators to assess the impact of coastal fisheries on reef fish communities in New Caledonia (South Pacific) - Presentation (PDF File)
• Spatio-temporal structure and functioning of harvested intertidal marine invertebrates: application to New Caledonian reef flats - Presentation (PDF File)
• Analyzing spatial structure of recreational coastal reef fisheries in New Caledonia for management purposes - Presentation (PDF File)
• Sarasinosides of the sponge Amorphinopsis excavans from Solomon Islands - Presentation (PDF File)

In the opening message from Nicolas Sarkozy, President of the Republic of France, read by the High Commissioner of the Republic of France, the CRISP was mentioned (Download the message - PDF File).

Web site of the congress: http://www.psi2009.pf/spip.php?rubrique_home=16