DST
Keynote speaker
Dr Sina Tagaloa
Dr Sina Tagaloa is a marine ecologist with 15 years of research on Pacific reef systems. She leads the University of the South Pacific's Coral Reef Lab in Suva, where her team has mapped reef health across 38 sites in 6 Pacific island countries.
She is the lead author of the 2024 Pacific Coral Status Report and serves on the IPCC Working Group II as a Lead Author for the chapter on small island states. Her work has been recognised with the 2022 SPREP Award for Marine Science Excellence.
At PIC11 she will deliver the opening keynote on "Safeguarding Pacific Biodiversity" — drawing on five years of community-based reef monitoring in partnership with the LMMA Network.