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Welcome to the PI-TOA (Pacific Islands & Territories Ocean Acidification) Network. The PI-TOA network works collectively to better understand and combat the impacts of ocean acidification in the region. As capacity for ocean acidification monitoring increases in the region, there is an increasing need for collaboration and communication among the various islands and territories.

OA in the Pacific Islands

A recent news article features PI-TOA Scientist Dr. Katy Soapi and her OA research in the highly vulnerable and undersampled Pacific Islands. Dr. Soapi is a pioneer of OA research in the Pacific Islands and the coordinator of the Pacific Community Centre for Ocean Science, one of the leading organizations within the Pacific Island Ocean Acidificiation Centre (PIOAC). PIOAC has been training dozens of ocean scientists from Pacific nations, including Azaria Pickering, who is taking the lead on the trial site near Suva, Fiji, where they are testing OA monitoring instruments that they received through GOA-ON in a Box Kits. Read the full article on the link below.

OA in the Pacific Islands

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Recruiting PI-TOA Steering Committee Members

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Ocean Acidification Activities in the Pacific

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PI-TOA Supports OA Monitoring Capacity Building

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How to Join

Join GOA-ON and Select this Hub or Email the GOA-ON Secretariat

PI-TOA (Pacific Islands & Territories Ocean Acidification) Network

The term "Toa" means "warrior" in many Polynesian Island languages. The PI-TOA network works collectively to better understand and combat the impacts of ocean acidification in the region. In recent years, there have been several ocean acidification trainings and "GOA-ON in a Box" kit recipients in the Pacific Islands and Territories. As capacity for ocean acidification monitoring increases in the region, there is an increasing need for collaboration and communication among the various islands and territories.

PI-TOA Region

Map credit: Azaria Pickering

Policy Brief

PI-TOA Policy Brief

PI-TOA has worked with the OA-ICC to produce a policy brief on ocean acidification impacts on the Pacific region

Steering Committee

  • Ms. Azaria Pickering
    The Pacific Community (SPC)
    Fiji
    azariap@spc.int
  • Ms. Aleluia Taise-Uili
    National University of Samoa
    luiah.taise@gmail.com
  • Dr. Wycliff Tupiti
    Office of the Prime Minister and Cabinet
    Solomon Islands

Advisors

  • Dr. Kim Currie
    National Institute Water and Atmospheric Research (NIWA)
    New Zealand
    Kim.Currie@niwa.co.nz
  • Dr. Antoine N’Yeurt
    The University of the South Pacific
    Fiji
    antoine.nyeurt@usp.ac.fj
  • Dr. Katy Soapi
    The Pacific Community
    Fiji
    katys@spc.int