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  • Association Affairs

Announcements

In a special election in October 2016, the PSA Council elected Dr. Eric Clua as an Ordinary Board Member of the Pacific Science Association. Dr. Clua is Professor of Marine Biology at the École Pratique des Hautes Études in Paris, and is also affiliated with the Centre de Recherches Insulaires et Observatoire de l’Environnement (CRIOBE) based in Mo’orea, French Polynesia. Dr. Clua has extensive field experience working and living in Oceania, and his area of expertise is the biology of coral reef ecosystems and the ecosystem services they provide.

Dr. Clua joins Dr. Shu-Min Huang (Academia Sinica), Dr. Isao Nakajima, M.D. (Tokai University School of Medicine), and Academician Valentin Sergienko (Russian Academy of Sciences–Far Eastern Branch) as an Ordinary Member of the PSA Executive Board. We are very pleased to welcome Dr. Clua to the PSA Board, and look forward to working closely with him during his term from 2016–2020.

PSA Activities

As his first initiative after becoming PSA President in June 2016, Dr. Yonglong Lu put forward a proposal, with the PSA’s formal endorsement, to the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) for an international research program focusing on Sustainable Coastal Ecosystems in the Asia-Pacific region. This initiative was later approved by CAS and is being co-developed by the Scientific Committee on Problems of the Environment (SCOPE), of which Dr. Lu was President from 2009–2014. PSA Executive Secretary Burke Burnett was given the task of helping to identify regional experts on the subject, who were invited to attend a two-day working symposium on sustainable coastal zone management that will be held at the CAS campus in Beijing in January 2017.

Prepared by Burke Burnett, PSA Executive Secretary [End Page 237]

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