Venue

University of Auckland, city campus, Auckland

Most of the symposium events were held in building B201 – that is, the presentations on Days 1 and 2, and all but one of the Workshops on Day 3.

The evening event on Day 1 took place in The Fale Pasifika.

PACIFIKA FALE event

6:00pm FALE PASIFIKA EVENING EVENT

6:30pm Cultural performance

Easter Chu Shing, Deputy Director General,  Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP) welcomed everyone and introduced the speakers.

Guest speakers: Andrew Crowe and Anihera Zhou Black

Bird migration as a tool of non-instrument navigation

In this presentation Andrew Crowe will elaborate on master navigator Nainoa Thompson’s summary of the non-instrument navigational skills of Pacific people: ‘Everything you need to navigate is in nature. The question is, can you see it?’ Anihera Zhou Black will describe what it’s like to be crew.